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Love your neighbor with your investments - photo by Sean Pollock

Love Your Neighbor with Your Investments

Faith-driven investing is a powerful way for investors to pursue performance and drive positive change in the world. The opportunities are vast, whether supporting companies that treat their employees fairly, contributing to their communities, or even taking steps to eliminate injustice in their supply chains. Values-aligned investors can send a resounding message about the types of business practices we will and will not stand for, shaping corporate behavior and humanity for good.

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Build Give Invest - A framework thats worth the risk by Henry Kaestner

Build. Give. Invest: A Framework That\’s Worth the Risk

After years of working with Faith Driven Entrepreneurs and Investors around the world, I know one thing for sure: they are having incredible Kingdom impact. They are building an ethical culture and influencing their communities through their companies. Nonprofits and charities are absolutely an essential tool God uses to advance his Kingdom, but now at Faith Driven Investor we have started thinking about a threefold framework that consists of building, giving, and investing.

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Faith and Finance - New Horizons for 2024 - Annie Spratt photo

Faith and Finance: New Horizons for 2024

What does faith have to do with capital? Given the way environmental and social uncertainties affect capital markets around the globe, quite a bit. For many, faith is required in these moments of challenge. We often think of faith institutions’ roles as leaders of moral realms, such as caring for others or honoring creation. What if we also considered the power of faith leadership paired with the capital these institutions hold. For these long-term investors, how can their faith principles be lived out through their portfolios?

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Guided by Wonder- A Reflection on the Stewardship of Creation

Guided by Wonder: A Reflection on the Stewardship of Creation

The natural environment is a finite resource, the inheritance of future generations, and a gift from God. We’re stewards of God’s Creation, not just consumers of it. Human flourishing requires thriving ecosystems. This perspective infuses our impact strategies from company engagement to impact bonds to community development investments. We’re working toward a sustainable planet where our heirs can enjoy the magnificence of Creation and businesses operate profitably without diminishing the earth.

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Design trend predictions for 2024 include rush for sustainable accreditation--dezeen

Design trend predictions for 2024 include rush for sustainable accreditation

In an effort to stanch the depletion of forests and ocean life, designers and manufacturers will continue to dream up alternatives to the materials they’ve traditionally relied on, especially those coming from supposedly sustainable resources—all in an effort to lower the impact of our consumption on the planet’s various systems. Part of which involves the shortening of supply chains and the surge in new biomaterials and fabrication techniques.

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2024 sustainability trends- looking beyond carbon

2024 Sustainability Trends: looking beyond carbon and new approaches to ESG data

New ESG and sustainability regulations, set to go into effect across the globe over the next year, will put pressure on companies to be officially transparent. And the sustainability agenda will move beyond fossil fuels to other areas such as methane emissions, addressing deforestation and increasing and protecting biodiversity. All of which, businesswise, will mean balancing short-term profits with long-term sustainability investment.

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Whole Foods Market Forecasts Top 10 Food Trends for 2024

Whole Foods Market Forecasts Top 10 Food Trends for 2024

Among the 10 forecasts put out by Whole Foods’ Trends Council: more plant-based offerings and a whittling down of ingredients; even cleaner “clean caffeine” products, and coffee and energy drinks with everything from mushrooms and probiotics to berries and limes; hormonal remedy products (bars, teas and “sleepy girl mocktails”) for women’s health; and products grown with regenerative agriculture—from rices to shampoos.

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Supply Chain Predictions 2024- AI, Sustainability Top Of Mind

Supply Chain Predictions 2024: AI, Sustainability Top of Mind

Pre-pandemic supply chains could be as dirty and unsustainable as they always were. No more. As foretold here, companies have begun to home in on more and better risk-mitigation strategies, such as on-shore, near-shore and off-shore being closer to actual demand and coming up backup sources and suppliers for key materials. Overall, supply chains will also be coming under more ESG scrutiny and be expected to be smarter about how they (positively and negatively) affect sustainability.

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2024 Market Outlook- Forget About Predictions

2024 Market Outlook: Forget About Predictions

What with solar and wind energy becoming such inexpensive electricity sources nowadays, and with the Inflation Reduction Act finally taking root in the business community, expect a boom in renewable energy investments. All of which will be even more possible given decreasing Fed rates and a slowdown in inflation.

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Grists 24 Predictions for 2024

24 Predictions for 2024

Among the two dozen predictions and happenings from Grist for the next year: the official kickoff of the American Climate Corps, wherein 20,000 18- to 26-year-olds will spread out across the U.S. to install solar projects, mitigate wildfire risk and make homes more energy-efficient; installing a climate reparations fund at the World Bank; the spread of “greenhushing” (corporations hiding their climate commitments to avoid scrutiny); and a boom in carbon-capture technology.

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Love your neighbor with your investments - photo by Sean Pollock

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