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$30,000 and a platform: How Jeff Bezos and Amazon can revive small businesses and farmers

June 16, 2017 By ImpactAlpha

Inclusive Economics Keeping the pitchforks at bay Over the last 24 hours, Jeff Bezos has made news for two big things. And they’re related. Yesterday, the Amazon founder, not a publicly known philanthropist, took to Twitter to say: “I’m thinking I want much of my philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now — short term — at […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Where Tourists Step Lightly, Biodiversity Flourishes

May 24, 2017 By MaxImpact

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, May 23, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – “We share our planet with millions of species of wild animals and plants. They keep us alive through making fresh air, clean water and healthy soils; they are used every day to make medicine, food and furniture and they support cultural, recreational and tourism pursuits,” says […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

BSR Announces Global Event for Collaboration and Action on Sustainable Business

May 19, 2017 By 3BLmedia

(3BL Media/Justmeans) – The Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals have provided a clear roadmap for a just and sustainable world. These profound developments are causing positive business disruption, and compelling companies to closely evaluate changing consumer expectations, investor demands, and competitor behavior. To address this moment of global change, BSR has […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Women & Money

May 17, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

“Everyone has to make up their mind if money is money or money isn’t money and sooner or later they always do decide that money is money.” —Gertrude Stein My Legal Tender project was inspired in part by the Great Recession. Each day, I listened to NPR and almost never heard the female pronoun. All […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing Tagged With: RSF, Sponsor

Mathis Wackernagel: Using the Ecological Footprint Metric as a Compass to the Next Economy [Podcast]

May 16, 2017 By LiftEconomy

Mathis Wackernagel is CEO of Global Footprint Network and co-creator of the Ecological Footprint — a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use, and who uses what. This data-driven accounting metric works like a bank statement, documenting whether we are living within our ecological budget or consuming nature’s […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Tom Steyer: Climate Change, Trump, and How to Create Prosperity for All Americans [Podcast]

May 6, 2017 By LiftEconomy

Tom Steyer is an active citizen, business leader and philanthropist working to ensure that everyone shares the benefits of economic opportunity, education, and a healthy climate. If you only have two minutes, click here for a highlight from the interview. Tom’s dedication to public service is greatly inspired by his wife, Kat, the co-CEO of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Millennial philanthropists are breaking tradition, research finds

May 5, 2017 By AllianceMagazine

Millennial philanthropists are unafraid of breaking tradition to achieve social impact according to a new report, sponsored by French bank BNP Paribas. The report, written by the Economist Intelligence Unit, is based on research and in-depth interviews with 15 philanthropy experts and millennial philanthropists around the world. The report revealed that millennials are turning away […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Regenerative Future Summit

May 2, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

Regenerative Future Summit: New Economy World Leaders Gather in Boulder, Colorado 15 – 17 May 2017 Natural Capitalism Solutions and Alliance for Sustainable Colorado announce the Regenerative Future Summit. Held 15-17 May at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, it will feature leaders who have created the […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Dear Diary: New Financial Diaries Research Explains Why Many Americans are So Angry

May 1, 2017 By NextBillion

  Would you rather have more money or a more stable financial life? A striking 92 percent of Americans in a recent survey chose stability – a sign of the deep undercurrent of financial insecurity running through the world’s richest country. A new book by Rachel Schneider of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, and Jonathan Morduch of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

New Systems Series: Volume Six

April 20, 2017 By IWV Partner

The sixth volume of papers in our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series offers visions ranging from a Cooperative Commonwealth and plural forms of Public Ownership to a Joyful Economy and the transition to a Cooperative Economic Democracy, sharing the hopeful message that a next system is closer than we think. In Cooperative Commonwealth & […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

A Child’s Right to Savings

April 17, 2017 By MaxImpact

By Sunny Lewis MUMBAI, India, April 14, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Gone are the days when the only financial education a child would receive was a piggy bank with a coin or two tucked through the slot and parental instructions to save his or her loose change. Now young people, even street kids, can have […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Where Are You On the Spectrum? (Of Impact, That Is.) Inspiring Capital Defines the Shades

April 11, 2017 By 3BLmedia

(3BL Media and Just Means)—Corporate social responsibility. Philanthropic giving. B Corps, employee-owned cooperatives, nonprofits, and all the models in between. The world of sustainability boasts more flavors than Baskin Robbins, more hues than a brilliant rainbow. As Nell Derick Debevoise, the founder and CEO of Inspiring Capital, has coined it, the expressions of sustainability in […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

International Day of Happiness – March 20th

March 8, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

What is the International Day of Happiness? It’s a day to be happy, of course! Since 2013, the United Nations has celebrated the International Day of Happiness as a way to recognize the importance of happiness in the lives of people around the world. UN  Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated that the world “needs a […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

World Happiness Summit

March 4, 2017 By Brian Kaminer

Inaugural World Happiness Summit Convenes Global Wellbeing Thinkers, Mindfulness Experts and Health Advocates. The World Happiness Summit (WOHASU) The summit agenda features more than 25 of the world’s leading experts on the different aspects that compose happiness and wellbeing. The unique three-day summit to be held in Miami, March 17-19, 2017, provides a perfect set […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

5 Ways to Be a Clean Money Revolutionary in 2017

February 27, 2017 By IWV Partner

A SOCAP Guest Post by Joel Solomon My first book, The Clean Money Revolution, is coming out in May. So, you may be asking, what is clean money?  Clean Money is money aligned with purpose: money that is about more than self-interest; money that prioritizes the commons; money that makes the world better. Clean money […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, Beyond Investing

Benevity Nonprofit Community Council Reinforces the Critical Role Companies Play in Achieving Positive Societal Outcomes

February 23, 2017 By 3BLmedia

Calgary, AB, February 22, 2017 /3BL Media/ — Benevity, Inc., the global leader in online workplace giving, matching, volunteering and grant management solutions, hosted the Benevity Nonprofit Community Council meeting on February 7, 2017 in Palm Springs, to discuss the ever-increasing importance of companies supporting their employees as a vehicle for achieving positive societal outcomes. Among […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

An Economy For Everyone: February Good Jobs Recap

February 23, 2017 By IWV Partner

In order to build wealth and create opportunities in and across America’s underserved communities, and reverse the troubling trends we’re seeing in our economy, we no longer find it defensible to focus on job creation alone. It’s clear that job creation does not itself equate to lasting economic change. And so, we must shift our […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Why Washington’s Anti-Regulation Agenda Will Hurt the Economy

February 16, 2017 By Ceres

The president and congressional leaders are fixated on demolishing public health, safety and environmental regulations, but these efforts make little practical — or economic — sense. Of particular concern is, first, the president’s “two-for-one” executive order requiring two federal regulations to be deleted for every one issued. The second is efforts by Congress to pass regulatory reform legislation […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

A “Farmer First” Approach to Land Access

February 8, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

Think “local food,” and your mind’s eye produces various images of farmers in vast fields harvesting strawberries as the sun rises. Or you visualize a weekend farmers market offering colorful arrays of fruits and vegetables. These images strike at the idea of a food movement that has grown more diversified and equitable. But barriers persist, […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing Tagged With: RSF, Sponsor

Inclusive Development Index: Measuring What Matters

January 25, 2017 By ImpactAlpha

Call it the Norway model. A new economic measure introduced at the World Economic Forum suggests inequality is not a natural byproduct of globalization, but a choice countries make through investments and priorities. The Inclusive Development Index shifts the evidence of a nation’s economic health from gross domestic product to living standards. GDP, a commonly used economic […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Defend the Sacred: RSF Winter 2017 Newsletter

January 11, 2017 By IWV Sponsor

In this latest RSF Quarterly, we listen deeply to members of our community as they recount stories of struggle and newfound strength. This issue’s Clients in Conversation is international and features Native people’s voices from as far north as Alaska, down to the South African region of Pondoland. Despite being halfway across the world from one […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing Tagged With: RSF, Sponsor

USA: 100% Renewables by 2050?

January 11, 2017 By MaxImpact

America’s most powerful wind farm – 1.5 gigawatts in size, generating enough electricity for a city of millions – is on the edge of the Mojave Desert at the foot of the Tehachapi Pass, site of one of the earliest and still largest collections of windmills in the world. In total, there are more than […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

10 Reasons to Be Optimistic for a Low-Carbon Future

January 3, 2017 By Ceres

Sure, many of my friends in the climate change movement can’t wait to forget 2016, the year when an incoming Trump presidency brought new meaning to climate uncertainty. But there is a movement taking hold that is far bigger than the U.S.—I’ve seen it in the last year in Africa, in Europe and the U.S. Here are […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Investing in Sustainable Cities to Spur Economic Growth

December 29, 2016 By 3BLmedia

(3BL Media/Justmeans) – In the next 15 years, more than two-thirds of total investment infrastructure will be made in cities. By 2050, about 66 percent of the global population will live in urban regions. Africa alone will have about 800 million more people living in cities than today. The gap between the supply and demand […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Large Businesses Thank Governor Kasich for Energy Bill Veto

December 28, 2016 By Ceres

Major Ohio employers today commended Republican Gov. John Kasich for vetoing an energy bill that they say would have increased electricity costs and made Ohio less globally competitive. By vetoing HB554, Ohio’s renewable portfolio standard of 12.5 percent by 2026 goes back into effect on January 1, 2017.  Utilities are also required to implement energy […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Failure of Amendment 1 Sparks Florida Solar Boom

December 28, 2016 By IWV Sponsor

As we reported in our last blog, Amendment 1 – The Florida Solar Energy Subsidies and Personal Solar Use Initiative – failed to achieve the 60% of voter support needed to pass a state constitutional amendment on November 8th. Proponents said the amendment would have given residents the right to choose to install solar systems […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

167 Nations Act to Protect Biodiversity

December 22, 2016 By MaxImpact

By Sunny Lewis CANCUN, Mexico, December 20, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – To safeguard the full spectrum of diverse living creatures, the UN Biodiversity Conference opened December 2 with a call to governments and businesses to integrate biodiversity into their practices. By the time the final gavel struck early Saturday morning, governments from 167 countries had […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Cooperative Banking in Croatia

December 14, 2016 By IWV Partner

The Democracy Collaborative’s Adam Simpson and Sarah McKinley sat down with Goran Jeras, one of the lead developers of ebanka, an ethical bank project launching in Croatia, for a conversation about building the institutions of an ethical and sustainable financial system. Adam Simpson: Goran, thank you for joining us today. You are the cooperative manager […]

Filed Under: -Local Banking, Beyond Investing

What I wish I knew of Impact Investors when I started

December 8, 2016 By Guest Contributor

“What do impact investors want? Sustainable social impact with financial return” “What are board meetings for? To take policy decisions and ensure organization is on track” How can one disagree with the above answers? Yet, that is what I did! Because, practically there is something more every new entrepreneur should know beyond these text-bookish answers. […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Top Resources to help you – a new article series

December 7, 2016 By Brian Kaminer

New Article Series “Top Resources” by Invest With Values Invest With Values is launching a new article series Top Resources.  The series shares lists of leading resources based on public input.  Each list focuses on a specific category (media, organizations, events) across the topics of Local Banking, Community Investing, Sustainable & Responsible Investing, and Impact Investing. What […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, -Impact Investing, -Local Banking, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing, Featured, IWV news, Top Resources

B Corps are changing the way we do business and our world

November 30, 2016 By Brian Kaminer

B Corps are changing the way we do business. Do you know the saying “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”? Well, a growing number of businesses (B Corps) are doing just that. Business as a force for good Businesses have a tremendous impact on our lives, as owners, employees, […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing, Featured Tagged With: Bcorp

What’s Next? Parecon, or Participatory Economics

November 23, 2016 By IWV Partner

  Download the PDF This paper by Michael Albert, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order to facilitate an informed […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

COP22: Paris Climate Pact ‘Irreversible’

November 22, 2016 By MaxImpact

MARRAKECH, Morocco, November 21, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – In the early hours of Saturday morning in Marrakech, more than 190 governments agreed to the Marrakech Action Proclamation , which sends a strong message of global unity towards taking effective action to limit climate change. The document proclaims that was issued “to signal a shift towards […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Well-being Economy: A Scenario for a Post-growth Horizontal Governance System

November 17, 2016 By IWV Partner

  Download the PDF This paper by Lorenzo Fioramonti, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order to facilitate an informed […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Dark times call for brighter new visions of the world we want to see

November 11, 2016 By IWV Partner

Our system is failing. Profound anger at a rigged system has led many voters to reach for something different – even if it means turning in a dangerous new direction. The voters have rejected a stale elite consensus, but we are now confronting a still greater threat. What remains of Madisonian checks and balances has […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Towards a New, Green Economy

November 10, 2016 By IWV Partner

  Download the PDF This paper by Tim Jackson and Peter A. Victor, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Trump is like the dog that caught the fire truck. Some ideas for what he does now.

November 10, 2016 By ImpactAlpha

It may be foolish to think that Donald Trump actually has solutions for addressing the wave of anger he rode into the White House. He’s spent decades stiffing contractors, outsourcing jobs and avoiding taxes. But if he’s looking for good ideas, let’s show him where to find some. There are at least a few areas where at […]

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US$100 Billion to Finance Climate Triage

November 4, 2016 By MaxImpact

Clever Kanga works for the Foundation for Irrigation and Sustainable Development in the central African country of Malawi, working to install solar powered irrigation projects, April 2016. (Photo by Trocaire) Creative Commons license via Flickr. By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, November 3, 2016 (Maximpact.com) – Finance is always a hot button issue at the UN’s […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Six Theses on Saving the Planet

November 4, 2016 By IWV Partner

  Download the PDF This paper by Richard Smith, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in order to facilitate an informed […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

The millennial is the message

October 12, 2016 By CorporateKnights

Illustration by Meaghan Way Millennials may be forgiven for not knowing Marshall McLuhan. But for insight as to why millennials invest the way they do, look no further than his extensive Wikipedia page. In fact, visiting any Wiki page would provide insight into McLuhan’s famous phrase, “the medium is the message,” meaning society is shaped […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Sustainable Goals and Social Impact: Do You Have What you need to succeed?

October 6, 2016 By MaxImpact

By Maximpact Sustainable Goals and Social Impact:  Do You Have What you need to succeed? At the nexus of change Maximpact.com is a work space for projects, businesses, ideas and endless opportunities.  A global marketplace of qualified consultants, experts and services. Maximpact.com today announced the launch of their consulting and advisory services to support the […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

7 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Money — Even If You’re Bad With It

October 4, 2016 By 3BLmedia

  Talking to your kids about money can be overwhelming. After all, when you aren’t even that “good with money” yourself, you shouldn’t be teaching your children about it, right? Wrong. The important thing isn’t to be perfect with your money; it’s to be open about it. A recent T. Rowe Price study found that […]

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The millennials who don’t want to call themselves philanthropists – and why we must listen to them

October 4, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

The term philanthropist, it seems, is getting a bad rep. The next generation of philanthropists at this year’s Philanthropy Australia conference made it perfectly clear that they would prefer to be known as ‘change-makers’ or ‘social entrepreneurs’, and so, are ‘consciously uncoupling’ from being known as philanthropists. It appears today, as discussed at the Conference, […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Framing the challenges of a next system after fossil fuels

September 30, 2016 By IWV Partner

Systemic Crisis and Systemic Change in the United States in the 21st Century This new working paper from The Next System Project was prepared as an invited contribution to the “After Fossil Fuels: The New Economy” conference taking place in Oberlin, Ohio from October 6-8, 2016. In the paper, Next System Project co-chairs Gar Alperovitz […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

UN Global Compact Launches Next-Generation Business Solutions to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

September 19, 2016 By 3BLmedia

  New York, September 19, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Today, the UN Global Compact will announce four new platforms – in partnership with GRI, Monday Morning/Sustainia, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and Volans – to help shape the next generation of sustainable development initiatives and partnerships for business. The announcement is part of the multi-year Making Global Goals […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

The best place to be a social entrepreneur? The results are in

September 16, 2016 By AllianceMagazine

Thomson Reuters today published the findings of their global perception poll of the best places to be a social entrepreneur. This poll was conducted in partnership with UnLtd and Deutsche Bank, and asked 900 experts in 45 of the world’s biggest economies a series of questions relating to this business-for-social-good sector, ranking the countries accordingly. […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

Facebook Live from SOCAP

September 14, 2016 By NextBillion

The Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference is again upon us. And this year, we’re trying something new. NextBillion will broadcast a series of interviews through Facebook Live, starting this evening and continuing through the end of the conference on Friday. We have more than 10 (and counting) discussions lined up with a diverse group of […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

Champions for Social Good Podcast: A New Resource for the Social Good Movement

September 9, 2016 By 3BLmedia

  Today, the new resource for the social good movement, the Champions for Social Good Podcast hosted by Jamie Serino, Director of Marketing at MicroEdge + Blackbaud, launched and is available online and for download on mobile devices. Through the Champions for Social Good Podcast, Jamie brings together thought leaders and practitioners to share key […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing

New Book: Inhabiting Interdependence

August 25, 2016 By IWV Sponsor

RSF Social Finance’s Vice President of Organizational Culture, John Bloom, published a new book this week titled Inhabiting Interdependence: Being in the Next Economy. In this collection of insightful essays, John explores approaches to transforming conventional habits of mind and practice that have led to an imbalance in our economic life. Acknowledging that money permeates […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing Tagged With: RSF, Sponsor

Credibles: Supporting Local Businesses With ‘Edible Credits’ is Just the Start

August 22, 2016 By Locavesting

Investment crowdfunding may get all the attention these days, but there are other ways of support businesses you love—without all the red tape. One of those is Credibles, an app that lets you pre-pay at your favorite restaurant or food purveyor (like Love & Hummus, shown in photo above), and earn edible credits. Think of […]

Filed Under: -Community Investing, Beyond Investing

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