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.

Green America’s Responsible Shopper

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Green America’s Responsible Shopper provides you with the real story about abuses by well-known companies, gives you actions to promote corporate responsibility, and helps you green your life and world.

Net Impact

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Net Impact is a community of more than 50,000 student and professional leaders creating positive social and environmental change in the workplace and the world.

Charity Navigator

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Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator has become the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. In our quest to help donors, our team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. We’ve used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system to assess over 7,000 of America’s best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities.

BankLocal

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Banking locally is a simple yet powerful way to support your community. When you deposit money or buy a CD at a community bank or credit union typically a much larger percent of your dollars is reinvested back into the local economy in the form of small business loans, bank employee wages, and bank vendor purchases with other locally owned businesses. Community banks and credit unions are often locally controlled and operated, and they tend to focus on the needs of the businesses and families where the bank operates branches and offices. Lending decisions are made by people who understand the local needs of families, businesses and farmers, and management often resides within the community it serves.

LOHAS

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LOHAS focuses on educating and building community around the central theme of healthy and sustainable lifestyles for individuals and societies. LOHAS provides business focused resources on the growing $290B LOHAS market and serves as the central hub for education, updated news, and B2B gatherings of those cultivating the LOHAS movement. LOHAS not only shares information but also provides practical tools and techniques for people to implement into their businesses that enable LOHAS values to penetrate into various situations. These values include: authenticity, transparency, honesty, integrity, professionalism and love for mankind and the planet.

The Soul of Money Institute

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Founded in 2003 by Lynne Twist, the Soul of Money Institute is a center for exploring and sharing the best practices, theories, and attitudes that enable people to relate to money and the money culture with greater freedom, power, and effectiveness.

Community Development Bankers Association

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Community Development Bankers Association (CDBA) is the national trade association of the community development bank sector. We are the voice and champion of banks and thrifts with a mission of serving low and moderate income communities.

Kiva Zip

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Kiva Zip is part of Kiva.org. It is a small project through which lenders make microfinance loans directly to borrowers in the U.S. and Kenya via the Internet. Kiva Zip was launched as a pilot in November 2011 and moved into its Alpha testing phase in September 2012.

Berkshares

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BerkShares serve as a tool for community economic empowerment, and development toward regional self-reliance.

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

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Environmental Working Group empowers people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. We drive consumer choice and civic action with breakthrough research and an informed public.

Presidio Graduate School

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Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program prepares students to be skilled and visionary managers in any field or enterprise. Today’s business professionals must not only lead successful organizations but understand the many complex and interdependent issues that define sustainability, from climate change and cleantech to stakeholder engagement and social responsibility. Mastering them requires both a new skill set and new mind set we call Sustainable Management.

Cafe Impact

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Cafe Impact is democratizing access to careers of conscience. Our awesome social change agents give you the nitty-gritty career-building skills you need to get started changing the world. Check out their powerful insights about the real challenges all social entrepreneurs face.

Bolder Giving

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Bolder Giving’s mission is to inspire and support people to give at their full lifetime potential. We promote three ways to give boldly. Give more: The average giving in the U.S. is 2-3% of annual income. We help those who can afford it to take quantum leaps further. Risk more: Many people are in an uninspired giving rut. We invite people to be more adventurous, strategic, and involved. Inspire more: Most people rarely talk about their giving. We support people to step out, start conversations, and to inspire others about the joy of giving.

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.