Invest with Values

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

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.

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.

Microfinance

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

CDFI

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

Vested –

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Vested.org is the only online platform where you can invest in the causes and places that matter to you starting at $20.

US SIF: Community Investing

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US SIF – Community Investing, channels public and private investment to low income and other underserved communities in order to provide capital, credit and training that these communities would otherwise lack.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Social Funds

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SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news.

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.

Community Investment Note

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Calvert Foundation – Community Investment Note, since 1995, more than 13,000 people have invested in our Community Investment Note, which earns a financial return while economically empowering communities worldwide.

Opportunity Finance Network

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Opportunity Finance Network® (OFN) is the national network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)—private financial institutions that are 100% dedicated to delivering responsible, affordable lending to help low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities join the economic mainstream.