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.

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.

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.

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.

RSF Social Finance

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RSF Social Finance (RSF) is a pioneering non-profit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. In partnership with a community of investors and donors, RSF provides capital to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises addressing key issues in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, and Ecological Stewardship. RSF offers investing, lending and giving services that generate positive social and environmental impact while fostering community and collaboration among participants. Since 1984, RSF has made over $275 million in loans and $100 million in grants to non-profit and for-profit social enterprises in its focus areas.

More Than Money

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More Than Money Journal, published quarterly from 1993 – 2006, was one of the first public forums where people shared personal stories about the impact of wealth in their lives.

Resource Generation

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Organizes young people with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power.

Reimagine Money (RSF Social Finance)

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RSF Social Finance believes that inquiry and dialogue are essential tools for transforming the way we work with money. We are committed to creating frequent opportunities for our community to engage in exploring the role of money and finance in our lives.

Social Venture Network

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SVN connects you to a growing community of innovative business leaders and social entrepreneurs to help you improve your business, enhance your leadership, and expand your impact.

Sustainable America

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Sustainable America’s goal is to bring together like-minded groups to foster awareness through open dialog and educational outreach, and act as a catalyst for the development and funding of innovative, entrepreneurial solutions to the impending food/fuel crisis.

RSF Social Finance

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The RSF Donor Advised Fund is a charitable giving vehicle that allows an individual, group, family, corporation, trust, or foundation to make a tax-deductible contribution to RSF, and then recommend grants from that contribution to qualified non-profit organizations. Donors not only receive an immediate tax deduction and back-office services, they also gain access to RSF

Making Money Make Change (MMMC)

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Making Money Make Change (MMMC) is Resource Generation’s annual 100-person gathering for young people with wealth (ages 18-35) who believe in social change. MMMC is a confidential space to explore issues related to wealth, privilege, philanthropy, and participation in grassroots movements for justice and equality. Participants and programming at MMMC bring multiple lenses to this work, including a focus on the dynamics of cross-class relationships and a developing curriculum around the intersections of racial and economic justice.

Grassroots Capital Management

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Grassroots Capital Management (GCM) is an impact investment manager based in the US. Together with its India partner, Caspian Advisors, GCM launched six funds since 2003, capitalization exceeding $300mm. Investments focus on microfinance in emerging markets but include housing, SME and sustainable agriculture. Currently GCM is exploring investment possibilities in sustainable food systems in the US northeast.

MicroVest Capital Funds

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MicroVest seeks partners to build capital markets that work for the world’s entrepreneurial poor. We seek sustainable solutions to poverty by facilitating the flow of international private capital to low-income financial institutions. We believe a commercial approach offers the most effective, scalable, and sustainable solution for generating a positive impact in the developing world while achieving market financial returns to our 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.

Calvert Foundation

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Calvert Foundation enables people to invest for social good. Through the Community Investment Note, they connect individual investors with organizations working around the globe, developing affordable housing, creating jobs, protecting the environment, and working in numerous other ways for the social good.

Take Charge of Your Card

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Credit cards from megabanks _ Citi, Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo _ support predatory lending, coal mining, tar sands, and outrageous CEO salaries. That’s why Green America is asking you to move to a credit card that supports people and the planet, and gives you the convenience and benefits you need.

Break Up with Your Mega Bank

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Green America’s Break Up With Your Mega-Bank Campaign is helping consumers and investors create and strengthen healthy communities in the U.S. and abroad. As a growing number of people move away from mega-banks and invest in community investing institutions instead, they will help create jobs, housing, and social services in communities that need them most.

Calvert Foundation

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Calvert Foundation enables people to invest for social good. Through the Community Investment Note, we connect individual investors with organizations working around the globe, developing affordable housing, creating jobs, protecting the environment, and working in numerous other ways for the social good.

Healthy Money Summit

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Engaging virtual dialogues with world-renowned thought leaders in the fields of finance, economics, psychology, spirituality and more. They share practical insights, tools and techniques to empower true financial abundance _ both individually and collectively.

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

Investors’ Circle

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Beyond the Pitch events are hosted by Investors’ Circle. They deliver promising entrepreneurs, quality company presentations, and investor engagement – with the extra IC elements that go beyond – facilitated investor conversations, immediate entrepreneur follow-up, and real opportunities to jump into due diligence.

BSR

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BSR is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies to build a just and sustainable world. BSR develops sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration.

Public Banking Institute

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The Public Banking Institute (PBI) was formed in January 2011 as an educational non-profit organization. Its mission is to further the understanding, explore the possibilities, and facilitate the implementation of public banking at all levels — local, regional, state, and national. PBI’s vision is to establish a distributed network of state and local publicly-owned banks that create affordable credit, while providing a sustainable alternative to the current high-risk centralized private banking system.

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.

The Story of Stuff Project

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We have a problem with Stuff. We use too much, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well. But that’s not the way things have to be. Together, we can build a society based on better not more, sharing not selfishness, community not division. The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 750,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet. We invite you to watch and share our movies, participate in our study programs and join our campaigns. Come on, let’s go!

National Community Investment Fund

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The National Community Investment Fund invests private capital in, and facilitates knowledge transfer to, depository institutions that increase access to financial services in underserved communities.

The Hub

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A member-driven community taking collaborative action for a better world. They empower people through place, community and programming to make change for our communities, our cities, and our world at large.

Triskeles Foundation

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Triskeles believes that aligning practice with purpose – at the individual level, in the community and on a global scale – is the way to achieve a positive future.