Impact Investing

Organized by Business Ethics magazine and the Tellus Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit, Corporation 20/20 aims to move beyond calls for corporate social responsibility to develop new "rules of the game" in areas such as director duties, capitalization, liability, and accountability to make corporate social responsibility not just a good thing to do, but a requirement of doing business. Read more about Corporation 20/20...

The Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) works to end poverty through investment. It serves as a facility to place capital on softer terms to finance affordable homes, fund small and micro businesses, and make available essential community services. Calvert Foundation's broader objective is to create "community investment" as a new asset class in the financial services industry. Read more about Calvert Social Investment Foundation...

As You Sow was founded in 1992 and now comprises two programs that strive to increase corporate accountability. The Environmental Enforcement Program seeks to reduce and remove carcinogenic exposures by pursuing compliance with California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. In 1997, As You Sow launched the Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSRP) to use shareholder advocacy and the financial markets to catalyze positive change within public held companies. Read more about As You Sow...

Founded in 1975, Walden provides portfolio management services to socially responsive investors.  To support healthy, inclusive communities, Walden offers clients an opportunity to invest in community development institutions, banks, and credit unions that support economic development and affordable housing.  It also partners with its clients to encourage portfolio companies to strengthen their corporate responsibility and accountability through shareholder engagement, which includes dialogue, shareholder resolutions, and proxy voting.  As of 2016, Walden had approximately $2.8 billion in assets under management.  Since 2004, Walden has been a division of Boston Trust & Investment Management Company, an employee-owned firm.

RSF is a group of non-profit organizations that employs the following strategies: attracting and developing a community of philanthropists and socially-minded investors; putting donor and investor intentions to work through grants, loans, and investments in organizations that create environmental, social, and economic sustainability; and developing the capacity of individuals and organizations to explore the social implications of financial practices. In the past 15 years, assets under management have increased from $6,000 to over $100 million. Read more about RSF Social Finance...

Founded in 1971 by two Methodist peace activists, Pax World is the nation's oldest socially screened investment management firm in the country, which uses a combined strategy of screening, shareholder activism, and community investments. As of December 2005, it had more than $2 billion of assets under management. Read more about Pax World...

The IC Network is comprised of angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy. Since 1992, Investors' Circle has facilitated the flow of over $130 million into over 200 companies and small funds. Read more about Investors' Circle...

Equity Trust is a national non-profit organization committed to helping communities to gain ownership interests in their food, land, and housing and protect the affordability of these resources. Equity Trust makes low interest loans to projects that promote environmentally conscious, economically sustainable land use, benefit people with low incomes, serve public as well as private interests, and promote active participation in social justice. Read more about Equity Trust...

The Calvert Group, one of the pioneers of socially responsible investing, has been in the mutual fund business for over 30 years. It manages over $13.5 billion in assets in screened and non-screened portfolios for over 400,000 shareholders. Read more about Calvert Group...