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Mission Markets: The World’s First Impact Investing “stock market”
Mission Markets is the world’s first fully functional, FINRA-regulated electronic impact investment platform. Its mission is to provide the essential infrastructure to scale the social and environmental markets by facilitating transparency, efficiency, and impact measurement. It is one step closer to achieving scale with its first two investments on its Impact Investment Platform. More
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BNY Mellon Donates $1 Million to Develop CSR Programs at University of Pittsburgh
Back in August I wrote an article wondering if we were Greenwashing our MBAs. Elaine Cohen, whose work inspired the article, wrote an astute response to my post stating, “The real change will come when businesses demand that MBA grads have sustainability knowledge as part of their basic education – it has to be a […] More
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Students Drive Change Through SRI: How Universities Can Get Involved.
In the December 2010 issue of FAgreen, Jerilyn Klein Bier authors a feature article regarding college students driving SRI efforts through their universities’ endowments. Bier reports that students at 39 U.S. schools have established Committees on Investor Responsibility (CIR) while Yale University undergraduates are managing an innovative socially responsible endowment fund. This just two weeks after […] More
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Community Investment 2.0 through Place-Based Strategies at SRI in the Rockies
SAN ANTONIO, TX: Today I attended an energizing discussion regarding opportunities for investors to invest directly in their communities. At a conference dominated with discussions of shareholder activism, stakeholder engagement with big oil and the business case for integrated ESG reporting, I was worried that the break out session for place-based strategies for social finance […] More
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The Global Water Crisis: A conversation with Maude Barlow at SRI in the Rockies.
SAN ANTONIO, TX: How fitting that my last post before arriving at SRI in the Rockies was about Bloomberg adding water data as part of its ESG offering; when the conference opened on the importance of water, protecting the water commons, and what it means for the socially responsible investor. After the official conference welcome […] More
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Bloomberg Adds Water to its ESG Service Offering
A recent post by guest contributer, Julie Urlaub, discussed the rising importance of water as a sustainability issue. In it, Urlaub states, “clean, fresh, and ‘usable’ water is no longer just an issue for developing countries. It has become a global social and business sustainability issue.” This fact is more evident by Bloomberg’s recent announcement […] More
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SRI in the Rockies: Next week in San Antonio, TX
I will be joining over 600 participants at the 21st annual SRI in the Rockies Conference Nov. 18 – 21 in San Antonio, TX. SRI in the Rockies is the premier North American conference for investors, investment professionals, and organizations working with money in more sustainable, responsible, and impactful ways. SRI in the Rockies is […] More
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Principles for Responsible Investment: Who Reported In 2010?
The United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is an investor initiative in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact that aims to incorporate issues of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) in investment portfolio decisions. Their Report on Progress 2010 highlights greater participation of institutional investors worldwide. See whose reporting and what […] More
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Eight U.S.-based Companies Added to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
The annual review of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) has been completed. See which U.S. firms made the cut. The components of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) represent the top 10% of the leading sustainability companies out of the biggest 2500 companies in the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index. […] More
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Doing Business in Sudan
Since 1997 the United States government has enforced economic sanctions on Sudan, by keeping American businesses from working with Khartoum and the al-Bashir government. This was due to the fact that Sudan was placed on the list of “state sponsors of terrorism”. Of course, this was a number of years before the genocide in Darfur […] More
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BP Removed from Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
Socially responsible investors send a clear message to BP: the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is not okay. Another nail in BP’s coffin. The oil company responsible for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history was removed from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) effective May 31, 2010. The DJSI are the first […] More
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Do Shareholders Impact Sustainable Business Practices? (Part 2 of 2)
What if you call your HR department or brokerage firm and discover you don’t have SRI options available with your 401(k)? Does that mean you can’t be a socially responsible investor? Of course not. If you own shares in a company, you have partial ownership and certain privileges. Corporations mail out their annual reports containing […] More