>> Back to September 2014 Issue PBS NewsHour focused on the theme of investing in women in a recent broadcast segment and interview Among several key topics covered, the report explores the research that links gender diversity to financial performance, the launch of the Pax Ellevate Global Women\’s Index Fund (the Fund) (PXWEX, PXWIX),
>> Back to September 2014 Issue The World Economic Forum (the Forum) has recently announced the appointment of globally recognized designer, author, educator and thought leader William McDonough as Chair of the Forum’s Meta-Council on the Circular Economy. The newly formed Council represents the Forum’s multi-sector initiative to accelerate business-driven innovation to scale the
>> Back to September 2014 Issue Chosen for Creating the Most Positive Farming Community Impact Recently Iroquois Valley Farms, LLC was recognized for creating the most positive farming community impact by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for Communities’ list. Iroquois Valley Farms, which owns local
Back to September 2014 Issue by Holly Mosher, award-winning filmmaker In 2006 I started off on two different film journeys. One was to make a film on world visionary Muhammad Yunus and his amazing creation of microcredit and social business that was selflessly helping millions of people and closing the economic gap in Bangladesh;
Article by Elizabeth Rogers, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications at CEI Impact investing involves more than the transfer of capital from investor to borrower. The ripple effect of community development occurs when business owners succeed, hire others, contribute to the economy and the environment, and are able to repay their loans or
by Barbara Krumsiek, CEO & President of Calvert Investments During my first week at Calvert Investments as President and CEO in April 1997, I received a desk plant as a congratulatory gift from a former colleague. Seventeen years later, that plant is literally a tree, dominating a special corner of my office. It is
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>> Back to August 2014 Issue Recently, Sustainalytics announced that its environmental, social and governance (ESG) research assessments are now available to the more than 320,000 subscribers of the Bloomberg Professional service. As a third-party ESG research provider, Sustainalytics will offer clients that subscribe to both platforms access to a subset of Sustainalytics’ ESG
>> Back to August 2014 Issue by Michael Finnigan, CampdenFB The number of millennials that own or employ socially responsible investments is significantly higher than in any other age group, according to a study that explores family dynamics in wealthy families. US Trusts’ Insights on Wealth and Worth 2014 found that 63% of millennials,
>> August 2014 Issue America’s age of empire is coming to an end. The question that matters now is what will follow it Article by John Michael Greer, author of Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America. One of the perplexities about the contemporary crisis
