On July 1, as thoughts everywhere turned to the coming Independence Day holiday, securities regulators from New England’s six states gathered in Boston with a difference set of freedoms on their minds: how to streamline crowdfunding across their states and carve out a sensible approach to capital-raising in the region. The meeting was part of […]
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Can Impact Investing Pay Off For Investors? A New Study Says Yes.
Good news for impact investors: you don’t have to sacrifice financial returns for social good. Not only do impact investment funds have very respectable returns, they are in spitting distance of comparable conventional funds. And in some cases, impact investment funds have outperformed their conventional peers. Those are the findings of the first Impact Investing Benchmark, […]
On Puddle, Social Networks and Trust Can Unlock Loans
When Rose Ann Haft wanted to create an online diabetes prevention program a year ago, she didn’t need much. Still, without access to a line of credit or a bank loan, she struggled to come up with even the modest amount of cash it required. Then she heard about Puddle, a social lending site that […]
Investing in a Healthy Future: Sustainable Agriculture, Organics & Fair Trade
“If you do just one thing – make one conscious choice – that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.” […]
Insights on The New Regulation A+ From Fundrise, a Reg A Pioneer
In 2011, Ben and Dan Miller had an audacious idea: why not let local residents, rather than outsiders, invest in commercial real estate in their neighborhoods? But that seemingly simple idea was not easy to pull off. It was months before the JOBS Act would be passed, much less proposed, and their inquiries led to […]
Canada Moves Ahead With Investment Crowdfunding
The crowdfunding ice melted in the Great White North last month when a group of six Canadian provinces adopted a common set of rules for equity and debt crowdfunding. The rules, released on May 14 and effective immediately, allow non-public companies in participating provinces to raise up to CAD $250,000 per offering, with two offerings […]
A Social Lender Pursues a Radical Experiment in Financial Transparency and Participation
On a rainy evening in March, sixteen people gathered in a tucked away conference room in Brooklyn. Before the evening was through, they would decide among themselves a key rate of interest that would affect borrowers and investors across the country. But this was no illicit cartel. There wasn’t a cigar-chomping banker in sight. The […]
Ours To Own Turns One
This month, we’re celebrating the one year birthday of the Ours To Own campaign, our investment initiative with a vision to activate broad and diverse networks of local residents to drive significant investment in their own communities. Last June, we launched the first two cities – the Twin Cities and Denver – and we have […]
From Wall Street to Main Street: A Conversation with Local Investor Marco Vangelisti
Marco Vangelisti left his job as an investment fund manager in 2009, after an eye-opening discovery about the kinds of companies the fund, and its mission-driven clients, were investing in. The first thing he did was to liquidate his Wall Street portfolio and reinvest it in local and sustainable investments. The second thing was to […]
Resilient Investing: A New Book Takes a Broad View of What it Means to Invest
Global instability. Climate change. Market swings. Investors need to look beyond sustainable investing to resilient investing, argue the authors of a new book. In The Resilient Investor: A Plan for Your Life, Not Just Your Money, Michael Kramer, Hal Brill, and Christopher Peck (pictured from left to right, above), the Managing Partners of financial advisory firm […]
Retail Co-op: Maine Islanders Band Together to Preserve a Way of Life
Summer 2015 Retail Co-op: Maine Islanders Band Together to Preserve a Way of Life by Gloria J. LaBrecque Cooperative Fund of New England As owners of a valued island business began to think about retiring, the idea of helping their loyal workers form a co-op had real appeal. On the website of the Deer Isle […]
InvestWithValues.com Launches News Center
InvestWithValues.com is the leading gateway for the sustainable, responsible and impact investing community with its free educational resource and just launched news center. May 27, 2015 10:30 AM ET Tweet This: News Center offers curated articles by leading providers on #impinv #SRI #socfin #communityinvesting http://bit.ly/1IYClZf @InvestValues Press Release ARMONK, N.Y., May 27, 2015 /3BL Media/ […]
Venture Exchanges Could Bring Liquidity to Small Firms And Boost The Economy
Three years after the JOBS Act was passed, making it easier for small ventures to raise capital, Congress is tackling the issue of secondary trading. The House Financial Services Committee last week floated a draft bill that would allow the creation of “venture exchanges” tailored to the needs of small companies. In many ways, the […]
Changing Capital: Four Strategies for Shifting Capital to Communities
By Sarah Trent This is the third in a three-part series featuring Local Economy Fellow Jessica Norwood. Below, read about four strategies ECN is implementing to change how capital works for under resourced communities in the Black Belt. In part one, learn about Jessica’s journey to Localism and her passion for changing how capital works to support communities. […]
Joel Salatin and Van Jones join speaker slate for #BALLE2015
We are excited to announce that Joel Salatin and Van Jones will join the lineup of visionaries speaking at our 13th annual conference this June 10-12 in Phoenix. Joel of Polyface Farm – often considered America’s most influential farmer – will join Sallie Calhoun (Paicines Ranch), Mark Tilsen (Native American Natural Foods), and Nikki Silvestri […]
Watch It Again: Building an Ecosystem for Place-Based Investing
Purchase Now! Recorded April 2015 Cost $10 With new generations of local financial institutions, community foundations, and supportive public policies, pathways have opened for trillions of dollars to move from Wall Street to Main Street. Innovative leaders are changing the way that capital works, moving away from a system that perpetuates inequality and toward place-based […]
What’s Behind the Boom in Women Entrepreneurs?
Woman-owned nonprofit Untapped Shores provides an opportunity for travelers to make a difference by carrying and delivering a life-saving business-in-a-box to a woman or a family in need. There are now 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the United States. Together they employ more people than McDonald’s, IBM and Wal-Mart combined, and their revenue of $1.3 […]
Where Does Your Money Spend the Night? Rethinking Capitalism
The global nonprofit sector has played a crucial role in identifying solutions for the needs of the world’s most marginalized populations. As the severity and scale of the problems escalate, however, it has become clear that the 20th century paradigm of maximizing profits in the capitalist realm of the economy then donating a percentage of […]
Don Shaffer: Community Foundations: What It Takes to Become Dynamic Hubs of Local Capital
Community foundations — with their deep local ties, significant unrestricted assets, and community benefit missions — are ideally positioned to play a leading role in solving our communities’ most profound and difficult challenges. Yet many are stuck in a pattern of disbursing only a small percentage of their assets in grants and investing the rest […]
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