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[Press About] Invest for Change, LLC was founded by Darron Stover in 2007 for the purpose of providing financial services for individual and corporate clients, as well as non-profits and foundation endowments that want their invested dollars to more closely correlate with their social values. It is the mission of Invest For Change to reach out to investors to help them meet their financial objectives, while investing in the securities of companies that advance human rights and human dignity, that care for our natural environment, that protect employees, families, consumers and their health/quality of life, and companies that are concerned about issues of community, education, social equality and peace ”¦ rather than ignoring the abuse of these issues for profit.

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[US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel] Georgetown University continues to ignore morality in its ...: Furthermore, the University has also ignored the call for a committee on socially responsible investment, a call that was echoed by the GUSA Senate in a resolution overwhelmingly passed on Sunday. There is precedent for such a process at a Jesuit university.

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[Vietnam Business News] Private sector 'ignoring' green technology | Vietnam Business News: Tran Thuc, director general of the Viet Nam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment, said to mitigate the effects of climate change Viet Nam needed to develop environmentally friendly technology and products that were of high quality and competitively priced.

[Investment Advisor] Good Corp., Bad Corp.: Corporate Citizenship and Financial Performance: Conventional wisdom about SRI, which can mean either socially responsible investing or sustainably responsible investing, is that adding an overlay of social screens to investment decisions will have an adverse effect on investment returns. Like much conventional wisdom, that convention may contain a kernel of truth, but it is by no means always the case.

[Vox Populi] Vox Populi » The Georgetown, Divest! forum on University ...: Nonetheless, the campaign launch event, attended by roughly 40 people, pressed for the University to pursue selective divestment from several multinational corporations. Perry outlined the four categories from which the select companies could profit: “Operation on illegally occupied land, the construction and maintenance of the separation barrier, the facilitation of collective punishment including home demolition and land confiscation, and institutionalized discrimination.”

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[The Finance Professionals' Post] The Sustainability Education Gap - The Finance Professionals' Post: The program’s director, Ralph Meima, notes that Marlboro not only serves socially responsible businesses in New England but also aims to train analysts for work with socially responsible investment funds and social venture capital firms based in the New England and New York area. “Our admissions trend at the moment indicates that before too long the largest concentration of our students will be from in and around New York City,” he reports.

[IndiaCSR] Indiacsr.in | Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) : Background ...: However, the contemporary context is more complex: "A company that undertakes activities aimed at communities (be they philanthropic, social investment or commercial initiatives) but does not comply with business basics cannot be termed socially responsible." (Harish Srivastava and Shankar .

[Room for Debate] Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths? - Room for Debate Blog ...: With traffic crashes being the largest cause of death for children and young adults, it’s time for the American auto industry to become once again the leader in traffic safety by hiring engineers to build safer cars rather than hiring lawyers and former government officials to build better loopholes for unsafe cars.

[Galley Eco Capital] Put Fortune 500 Product Innovations to Work for Your Green ...: It turns out that Fortune 500 companies reduce their investment risks within new/revamped product and service initiatives by using sophisticated “voice of the customer research” (VOCR) tools very early in the design process. These tools gather how customers perceive and experience their products and services, which is perhaps the most difficult information to obtain.

[Oregon Business News] Need a vice? Try mixing sin stocks with saints | OregonLive.com: Sin stocks are followed by fewer Wall Street analysts and are less likely to be owned by institutions such as pension plans and foundations, according to the study co-written by Princeton's Harrison Hong. That's because, Hong pointed out, individual investors can keep their portfolios "out of the view of enforcers of societal norms."

[Blogs - New Start Magazine Online] We need to make the case for future regeneration funds now: New ...: Personally i see a big future for impact investing and for those able to create socially responsible investment products. This i think is where the investment capital will begin to migrate towards since such investments will appeal to investors seeking long-term assets with resilient and sustainable income streams.

[Vox Populi] Vox Populi » Georgetown Divest! coalition marches to President ...: The 4th Decree of the 32nd General Congregation highlight the religious duty to pursue justice through a transcendent relationship with God and the transformation of attitudes that permit inequality, in addition “promot[ing] justice and human freedom on the social and structural level.” (4th Decree, b.32)

[Environment Forum] Oil sands and ethical investing at a price | Analysis & Opinion |: The oil sands business produces even more CO2 than traditional oil and the investor group, which also included environmental and faith groups, said they were concerned that if governments sought to fight climate change by hiking charges for emitting CO2, the Sunrise project may turn prove an economic catastrophe for BP.

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[RiskMetrics ESG Insight Blog] Time for Financial Markets to Tell the Truth about the Real ...: Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance, a collection of articles from 22 contributors including co-editors Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins, was released in the fall of 2008. SI challenges investors to look beyond what contributor Steven Lydenberg calls "the fast-paced speculative nature of today's financial markets." Socially responsible investors (SRI) have been striving to meet this challenge for decades, and now current events have exposed the financial system's myopia as an urgent global crisis.

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