Invest with Values

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

  • RESOURCE DIRECTORY
    • GETTING STARTED
    • FULL DIRECTORY
    • Top Resources
    • Share a Resource
  • NEWS CENTER
    • NEWS CENTER
    • By Category
      • Local Banking
      • Community Investing
      • Impact Investing
      • Sustainable-Responsible Investing
      • Featured Articles
      • Beyond Investing
      • IWV news
      • Top Resources
    • News Partners
      • 3BLmedia
      • AllianceMagazine
      • CorporateKnights
      • GreenMoney
      • Locavesting
      • MaxImpact
      • InvestWithValues Sponsors
      • InvestWithValues Partners
    • Newsletter Sign-up
    • Newsletter Archive
  • About
    • About Us
    • Brian Kaminer
    • Learn More
    • Testimonials
    • Investments Talk! Video
    • Launch Press Release
    • News Center Press Release
  • Sponsors & Partners
    • Sponsors
    • Partners
  • Connect
    • Contact Us
    • Survey
    • IWV News
    • Share a Resource
  • Spoiler title
    Free GuideSubscribeClose
    Get a free 30 minute personalized guide to
    Invest With Values, after subscribing.
    * = required field

Transform Finance: Bridging the Worlds of Finance and Social Justice

November 22, 2017 By Locavesting

Impact investment has the potential to transform economies and societies, say its advocates. But the growing field is littered with examples of good intentions gone wrong—often the result of a “top-down” approach.

How can impact investors avoid unintended consequences and ensure that their investments are aligned with the goals and needs of the people and communities they seek to support?

With impact investing on its way to becoming a trillion dollar market, it’s not a trivial question. And it’s one that has preoccupied Morgan Simon, an impact investing pioneer who helped create the Responsible Endowment Coalition as a college student and went on to be the founding CEO of Toniic, a network of impact investors.

In 2014, Simon (pictured above at SOCAP16), cofounded the nonprofit Transform Finance to address the misalignments she was seeing in the impact investing field and to hold investors to a higher standard. The Transform Finance Investor Network includes foundations, investment funds and family offices focused on what she calls “a social justice approach”—addressing issues of economic and racial inequality around the world.

Through the Transform Finance Institute for Social Justice, Simon and her team provide training to mission-driven organizations that covers everything from developing equitable employment practices to pitching opportunities. Most important, says Simon, is learning about revenue-generating strategies and how to “hold investors accountable.”

Next month, the Institute will hold a three-day training session in New York City for social justice leaders and entrepreneurs.

“Investors need to have a deeper connection to the community in which we’re going to work to even know what impact we want to go after,” says Simon, who is also the author of the recently published book, Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change (Perseus Books, 2017).

“Investors want to invest, but don’t always know what’s really needed,” she says.[…]

The post Transform Finance: Bridging the Worlds of Finance and Social Justice appeared first on Locavesting.

Share This:

The full and original article can be viewed on Locavesting.com


home-compass-croppedVisit the Invest With Values - Resource Directory to access leading investor information, opportunities, organizations, events, groups and tools.

Filed Under: -Impact Investing

About Locavesting

Locavesting - A book, a movement... now a media site! News, analysis and resources focused on the intersection of community + financial innovation. Founded by Amy Cortese.
Learn more about Locavesting and their articles.

News Search

Sponsors

Talgra RSF RSF Social Finance logo Trillium MicroVest MicroVest LOCUS LOCUS Impact Investing CFC capital for change

Events

All News by Category

Take the Survey

Why do you care about money and investing?
  • Home
  • Directory
  • News Center
  • Sponsors & Partners
  • About
  • Connect
  • Google Plus
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin

Copyright © 2021 • Invest with Values • All Rights Reserved • 914-230-0741 · info(at)talgra.com
Created and Managed by Brian Kaminer of Talgra LLC

Disclaimer: The information shared through investwithvalues.com has been provided by Talgra, LLC (“Talgra”). No representation or warranty, expressed or implied is made by Talgra, the sponsors, partners or contributors as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained herein. The website is for educational and informational purposes only and is subject to change. This does not constitute an offer or a solicitation to purchase or sell any security, and nothing herein should be construed as such. The opinions represented in this directory are those of Talgra and should be considered in conjunction with advice from a professional advisor in the context of your particular investment situation. The specific investments included in this website are examples of investments that can be made in each of the different investment categories and are not recommendations to purchase any individual security or investment vehicle.