Invest with Values

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

The Investor's Gateway to Positive Change

CDFI

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

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.

Investor

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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

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.

Microfinance

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

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.

Pipeline Fellowship

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The Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women, works to increase diversity in the U.S. angel investing community and creates capital for women social entrepreneurs.

ImpactBase

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ImpactBase is the searchable, online database of impact investment funds and products designed for accredited investors and investment managers.

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.

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.

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Community (PYMWYMIC)

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Pymwymic is Europe’s most active and longest-standing community of impact investors. Created originally in 1994 by Europe’s (then) ‘next-gen’ influencers, Pymwymic has for 20 years, advocated, catalyzed and invested into impact enterprise. Over years we’ve together invested many millions, helped 45+ companies with significant seed or growth funding, and supported and connection.

ImpactSpace

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ImpactSpace is the open data and resources platform powering the global impact market. We are making this information available to everyone and maintainable by anyone.

Trillium Asset Management

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Trillium Asset Management is the oldest independent investment advisor devoted exclusively to sustainable and responsible investing, managing equity and fixed income portfolios for high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments, and religious institutions since 1982. A leader in shareholder advocacy and public policy work, our goal is to deliver both impact and performance to our investors.

SRI

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Sustainable and Responsible Investing, or Socially Responsible Investing

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.

Slow Money

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Slow Money is bringing people together around a shared vision about what it means to be an investor in the 21st Century: Money can erode. Or money can nurture. Millions of us, slowing just a little of our money down, can begin to create the nurture capital industry—as important to the next generation as venture capital has been to this generation. Looking at philanthropy and investment through the lens of food, soil and place, we will find new ways to rebuild trust and to support millions of small acts of entrepreneurial care.

Impact Investor

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Impact Investor was developed by the Social Stock Exchange as the first truly comprehensive resource to meet the needs of those people who wish to explore investing in businesses that deliver an impact _ be that social, environmental or ethical _ alongside a financial return. Our website provides a content rich portal where engaged users are able to learn about the significance and scale of the global impact investing market, whilst exploring the growing swathe of opportunities available to those investors who wish to put their money to work for more than just financial gains.

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.

Africa Sustainable Investment Forum

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AfricaSIF.org is an independent, pan-African, not-for-profit network, knowledgebase and advocate promoting investment in sustainable development across the continent launched in June 2010. The AfricaSIF.org Project is run by volunteers building a network of institutions and individuals promoting sustainable investment in Africa by investors in public, private and philanthropy sectors across asset classes, countries and stakeholders from our platform @ africasif.org.

Toniic

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Toniic is a global network of action-oriented impact investors, both individuals and institutions. We increase the velocity of money and services into impact investing to address global challenges. Our members commit to discover, evaluate, nurture and invest in entrepreneurs, enterprises and funds that promote a just and sustainable economy. Toniic has members in over 20 countries and its members have invested in over 15 countries.

MaxImpact –

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Maximpact impact investing network is an web-based metaportal designed to increase the depth and effectiveness of impact investment across the globe. It operates as a secure listing service that allows entrepreneurs, intermediaries and funders to share information about impact investment deals online.

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.

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.

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.

Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)

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The Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) is the leading association in Asia dedicated to promoting sustainable finance across the region. For over 10 years, ASrIA has provided leadership, helped to build capacity and leveraged the expertise to promote the development of sustainable financial markets and systems in Asia.

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.

asiaIIX –

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Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) (IIX) is the home of Asia’s first private and public platforms for Social Enterprises (SEs) to raise capital efficiently. To provide Social Enterprises in Asia with greater access to capital, allowing them to more rapidly expand the impact of their activities.

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.

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.

CERES _ Investor Network on Climate Risk

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The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) is a network of 100 institutional investors representing more than $11 trillion in assets committed to addressing the risks and seizing the opportunities resulting from climate change and other sustainability challenges. In 2013, INCR turned 10 years old, celebrating a decade of investor action on climate risk.. In 2013, INCR turned 10 years old, celebrating a decade of investor action on climate risk.

CapNexus –

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An online database that matches money and partners to community development finance opportunities.

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

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.

Eurosif

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Eurosif is the leading non-for-profit pan-European sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) membership organisation whose mission is to promote sustainability through European financial markets.

GATE impact –

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GATE Impact fulfills the increasing global demand for market infrastructure enabling capital to identify & transact investments that provide sustainable social and environmental benefits in addition to financial returns.

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.