Invest with Values

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

As You Sow

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Promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy.

Intentional Endowments Network

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Intentional Endowments Network is an emerging vehicle for collaboration among decision makers and stakeholders involved with various aspects of the endowment investing system.

SRI-CONNECT

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SRI-CONNECT is the global marketplace for SRI & corporate governance research. It is where institutional investors & quoted companies involved in sustainable development meet online.

Sonen Capital

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Sonen Capital is a specialized investment management firm dedicated to investors seeking financial returns with lasting social and environmental impact.

Cornerstone Capital Group

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Woman-owned financial services firm based in New York offering investment banking and strategic consulting and investment management capabilities.

The Crowd Cafe

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The CrowdCafe is an education and advocacy platform for the investment crowdfunding industry. Our goal is to promote greater awareness and understanding of the industry _ speaking to the enormous value it holds for businesses, investors and the economy at large _ by providing data-driven research, resources, and discussion. Transparency is paramount.

Kiva

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Kiva. We are a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.

Crowdfunding

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Funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions or investments from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.

Investor’s Circle

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Investors’ Circle is the oldest, largest and most successful early-stage impact investing network. Together with hundreds of angels, venture capitalists, foundations and family offices, we have propelled $172 million plus $4 billion in follow on investment into 271 enterprises dedicated to improving the environment, education, health and community. IC’s mission is to promote the transition to a sustainable economy by increasing the flow of capital to enterprises that are addressing social and environmental challenges.

Green Transition Scorecard

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THE GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD® (GTS) is a time-based global tracking of the private financial system for all sectors involved with green markets, producing a transparent line of sight toward the ethical progress of wealth building as defined by the triple bottom line of planet, people and profits.

Big Path Capital

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Five Fund Forum – A showcase of five investment funds across the spectrum of sustainability including clean energy, microfinance, energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, impact, green consumer products and others. The event is invitation-only. Presented by Big Path Capital.

Green America: Community Investing

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Across America and around the world, many communities lack affordable housing, child care, health care, and jobs that pay a living wage. By putting your money into community development banks, credit unions, and investments, you’ll help people with low incomes lift themselves up economically and make the areas in which we all live more equitable and environmentally sustainable.

Green America banking directory and locator

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Our database contains hundreds of options that are leading community development banking and investing institutions. In addition to banks and credit unions, there are hundreds of loan funds nationally. Loan funds provide high-impact lending to low income communities. Unlike banks and credit unions, their products are not insured, but they have a long track record of successfully protecting investors

Independent Community Bankers of America

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Independent Community Bankers of America – ICBA The Independent Community Bankers of America®, the nation’s voice for more than 6,500 community banks of all sizes and charter types, is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and its membership through effective advocacy, best-in-class education and high-quality products and services.

Bank Locator

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ICBA Community Banking Locator – Community banks are the safest, soundest and most secure financial institutions in our nation. Community banks are common sense lenders that follow responsible business practices; are risk averse; and work every day to support their customers, communities and local markets.

CDFI

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Community Development Financial Institution, a financial institution which provides credit and financial services to underserved markets and populations

Microfinance

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Financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses lacking access to banking and related services.

CARS – Comprehensive Ratings for CDFI Investments by Aeris

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Aeris is an information service for community investors who champion economic justice in underserved markets. Since 2004, Aeris has provided data, analysis, and advisory services that support investment in community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Our proprietary CDFI ratings tool — CARS, the CDFI Assessment and Ratings System — helps investors evaluate opportunities that meet their impact goals and risk parameters.

AboutMicrofinance –

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AboutMicrofinance is an aggregator and disseminator of current and authoritative information and resources on all aspects of the microfinance industry.

MicroCapital

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MicroCapital publishes information on microfinance, SME investing and other forms of impact investing monthly in the MicroCapital Monitor and daily at MicroCapital.org. Since 2005, we have been covering news, events, research summaries and a range of special features on the sector. As impact investing is an emerging industry with a legacy of charity, objective news with a business orientation is scarce. MicroCapital seeks to counter this scarcity by providing candid information with the goal of encouraging rational growth of the industry.

MicroFinance Gateway

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Since 2000, CGAP’s Microfinance Gateway has been a valuable resource for individuals and organizations working to advance financial inclusion for the world’s poor. The Gateway welcomes more than 1 million annual visitors from over 200 countries, who recognize the Gateway as the web’s leading resource for knowledge and career development opportunities in microfinance and financial inclusion.

MicroRate

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MicroRate was the first microfinance rating agency dedicated to evaluating performance and risk in microfinance institutions (MFIs), as well as evaluating microfinance funds, also known as microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs). As the oldest and most well-respected organization of its kind, MicroRate’s primary goal is to promote growth in the microfinance industry by facilitating the efficient flow of money from capital markets to MFIs through independent evaluation and increased transparency.

SRI

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Sustainable and Responsible Investing, or Socially Responsible Investing

United Nations – Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

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The United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative is an international network of investors whose goal is to understand the implications of sustainability for investors and support signatories to incorporate these issues into their investment decision making and ownership practices.

USSIF

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US SIF is a membership association for professionals, firms, institutions and organizations engaged in sustainable and responsible investing. US SIF and its members advance investment practices that consider environmental, social and corporate governance criteria to generate long-term competitive financial returns and positive societal impact.

Your Ethical Money

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An independent non-profit resource on ethical money. Learn about how and where your money is invested, search for green and ethical financial products, and find out how you can help make finance more sustainable.

Go Fossil Free _

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It’s wrong to profit from wrecking the climate — so they’re building an unstoppable movement to divest from fossil fuels.

Green America – Shareholder Activism

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From dismantling apartheid in South Africa to encouraging equal treatment for gay and lesbian workers, from convincing corporations to address climate change to pressuring financial institutions to drop their predatory lending practices, shareholders around the world are using their economic power to encourage corporate responsibility. Shareholder votes on social and environmental issues are receiving historically high levels of support. In order to be resubmitted for consideration by shareholders in the coming year, resolutions need to receive at least 3% support in their first year, at least 6% in their second year, and at least 10% in their third year of facing a vote. The 2013 proxy season marked a ten-year high for proxy votes on social and environmental issues, which received 21% support on average.

Case Foundation

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Case Foundation’s working version of A Short Guide to Impact Investing — a basic primer to help individuals better understand how business can drive social change and create social impact. We’ve talked with hundreds from the impact investing community to create this document and now we want to hear from you.