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.

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.

Cornerstone Capital Group

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Woman-owned financial services firm based in New York offering investment banking and strategic consulting and investment management capabilities.

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.

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.

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.