July 2014 – The Millennials Perspective

The Transformative Power of Fair Trade Gold Mining in Tanzania

>> Back to July 2014 Issue By Marc Choyt, Reflective Images   In May of this year I had the opportunity visit some small-scale gold miners in Tanzania that are seeking fair trade certification. The trip was sponsored by Fair Trade International, funded by a grant from the UK charity, Comic Relief. On site, I

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Why Impact Investors Must Come To Terms With the Biological Bottom Line

>> Back to June/July 2018 Issue By Paul R. Ehrlich and M. C. Tobias, co-authors of Hope on Earth   When Nicholas Stern released the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (October 30, 2006) for the British government, it was already clear that global warming, weather anomalies and the consequences of unheeded business-as-usual

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Revolution Growth Invests in Healthy Meal Provider, Revolution Foods

New Funding Will Accelerate Expansion of Affordable, High-Quality Food into New Schools and Stores

Revolution Foods, the preeminent provider of healthy, kid-inspired school meals and retail products, recently announced a significant new investment from Revolution Growth. As part of the investment, Steve Case will join the company’s board. The investment will help Revolution Foods expand its school meal service and line of ready-to-eat Meal Kits into new schools and stores, providing more American families with access to affordable, delicious healthy food.

 

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Mission Markets Launches New Platform to Support Impact Investing

>> Back to July 2014 Issue New technology platform provides broader investor access, a community of members, and information on Impact Investing and impact fund offerings for the first time   Mission Markets, Inc., which operates a marketplace for impact investing, announced in early June 2014 the launch of its new technology platform. (See Twitter

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Pride: Identity and Investing

>> Back to July 2014 Issue By Julius Tapper, TD Bank Group As you may have noticed, there\’s a theme to this issue of GreenMoney. As I write this article, featured as a “millennial voice,” I can\’t hide a small smirk of irony. I grew up hating labels. Or, more diplomatically put, I had a

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Nexus: Millennials on a Mission

Back to July 2014 Issue By Brian Weinberg, Nexus   Aron Ping D’Souza, a young philanthropist and Australian native, first attended a Nexus Summit in London in 2012. There, he was exposed to Sir Ronald Cohen’s work on impact investing and social impact bonds. The idea that for-profit investing could be a vehicle for social

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Where’s the Community Accountability in Impact Investing?

By Morgan Simon, Pi Investments   The concept of impact investment that has the explicit purpose of supporting economic and community development is receiving a growing amount of attention from an increasingly diverse set of financial players. This emerging trend is one of the most exciting, and potentially problematic, trends I’ve seen over the last

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Millennials: Changing The Investment Conversation

>> Back to July 2014 Issue By Justin Conway, Calvert Foundation   Amidst all the talk about the trillions of dollars in wealth transfer and flood of stats coming-out about millennials, I thought I’d spend some time talking about what I see millennial investors doing as it relates to investing. I do so from my

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An Open Letter to the Financial Services Industry From a Concerned Millennial

As a Millennial, I have recently noticed a flurry of studies, articles, and reports about my generation, authored by a diverse range of interested parties. Quite a bit of the pure sociological data suggests that the 80 million of us born between 1980 and 2000 are narcissistic, lazy, and optimistic to the point of being delusional – it’s enough to make me want to delete that selfie!

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