Launched in May 2012, Mission Investors Exchange is the culmination of the integration of PRI Makers Network and More for Mission, along with more than 200 Foundations and mission investing organizations that use mission-related investing as a strategy to accomplish their philanthropic goals. The group offers a variety of tools, workshops, webinars, and a national conference for foundations interested in program related and missions related investing. Read more about Mission Investors Exchange...
Environmental, Social and Governance Investing by College and University Endowments in the United States: Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Stakeholder Relations
Launched in May 2012, Mission Investors Exchange is the culmination of the integration of PRI Makers Network and More for Mission, along with more than 200 Foundations and mission investing organizations that use mission-related investing as a strategy to accomplish their philanthropic goals. The group offers a variety of tools, workshops, webinars, and a national conference for foundations interested in program related and missions related investing.
Healthy Neighborhoods has established a loan program to support the acquisition and/or rehabilitation of owner occupied homes on target blocks in the ten Healthy Neighborhoods program neighborhoods. The Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative is an effort of area foundations and the City of Baltimore to invest strategically in certain neighborhoods and target blocks within those neighborhoods.Read more about Healthy Neighborhoods...
Founded in 2011, Social Finance, Inc. works to establish long-term impact investments that assist nonprofit financing and government funding. Their Social Impact Bonds program is a unique public-private-nonprofit collaboration that generates returns by monetizing social outcomes to benefit low-income citizens while privatizing risk. Read more about Social Finance, Inc....
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services with over 20 years of experience. ISS serves more than 1,600 clients worldwide with its core business — analyzing proxies and issuing informed research and vote recommendations for more than 33,000 companies. Read more about Institutional Shareholder Services...
U. of Chicago, Wesleyan shift deposits to community banks
The University of Chicago’s Class of 2012’s gift was truly an investment in the community; after negotiating with administration officials in February about the University’s investment practices, students convinced the University to shift $1 million in deposits to four community banks. Each bank will receive the FDIC insured maximum deposit of $250,000.
One million is a tiny portion of the University’s large endowment but it represents the growing consciousness regarding the issue of social responsibly investing – from both students and administrators. This money will help local banks increase lending in the neighborhoods around the University, further strengthening those communities that surround this anchor institution – creating a win-win situation for both.
The SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investment is a forum that brings together leaders in the socially responsible investment industry in the United States. First held in 1990, the SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investment provides a venue to meet and learn from passionate, creative people from all corners of the social investment community. Read more about SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing...
Founded in 1987, Social Venture Network is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business. Social Venture Network advocates for a “triple bottom line” of economic, social, and environmental returns and maintains a number of resource links on its website. Read more about Social Venture Network...
The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF) is a national nonprofit membership association dedicated to promoting the concept and practice of socially responsible investing. US SIF is made up of over 500 financial professionals and institutions. Its website offers a wide range of information, contacts, and resources on socially responsible investing. Read more about Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF)...
Net Impact aims to support the growth of a network of leaders who use the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact. With more than 200 student and professional chapters on 4 continents in 75 cities and over 120 graduate schools, a central office in San Francisco, and partnerships with leading for and nonprofit organizations, Net Impact enables members to use business for social good in their graduate education, careers, and communities. Read more about Net Impact...
For over thirty years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), an association of 275 faith-based institutional investors, has been a leader in the movement for corporate social responsibility. ICCR and its members pressure companies to be socially and environmentally responsible. Each year ICCR-member religious institutional investors sponsor over 200 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues. The combined portfolio value of ICCR member organizations is estimated to be $100 billion. Read more about Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility...
