Impact Investing

Green America

Green America (formerly Co-op America) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Green America has a membership base of over 50,000 consumer activists and 2,500 responsible businesses. Green America publishes the National Green Pages, hosts the Social Investment Forum, and promotes a variety of fair trade and socially responsible investing programs. Green America is working with the Calvert Foundation (also featured on the C-W site) on a campaign to direct a percentage of social investment fund assets to CDFIs. Read more about Green America...

Council of Institutional Investors

The Council of Institutional Investors is an organization comprised of large public, labor, and corporate pension funds. Founded in 1985, the Council today has over 140 pension fund members whose assets exceed $3 trillion, and more than 130 educational sustainers. Read more about Council of Institutional Investors...

Corporation 20/20

Organized by Business Ethics magazine and the Tellus Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit, Corporation 20/20 aims to move beyond calls for corporate social responsibility to develop new "rules of the game" in areas such as director duties, capitalization, liability, and accountability to make corporate social responsibility not just a good thing to do, but a requirement of doing business. Read more about Corporation 20/20...

Ceres

Ceres is a national network of investment funds, environmental organizations, and other public interest groups working to advance environmental stewardship on the part of business. For instance, in May 2005 at the United Nations, Ceres brought together representatives of U.S. and international pension funds representing $5 trillion in capital to address the profound investment risks and emerging business opportunities driven by climate change. Read more about Ceres...

Calvert Social Investment Foundation

The Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) works to end poverty through investment. It serves as a facility to place capital on softer terms to finance affordable homes, fund small and micro businesses, and make available essential community services. Calvert Foundation's broader objective is to create "community investment" as a new asset class in the financial services industry. Read more about Calvert Social Investment Foundation...

Business for Social Responsibility

Business for Social Responsibility, founded in 1992, is an association of companies that aim to reconcile their commercial and social responsibility goals. Members range from mid-size businesses such as Tom's of Maine to large Fortune 500 firms. Read more about Business for Social Responsibility...

As You Sow

As You Sow was founded in 1992 and now comprises two programs that strive to increase corporate accountability. The Environmental Enforcement Program seeks to reduce and remove carcinogenic exposures by pursuing compliance with California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. In 1997, As You Sow launched the Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSRP) to use shareholder advocacy and the financial markets to catalyze positive change within public held companies. Read more about As You Sow...

Walden Asset Managment

Founded in 1975, Walden provides portfolio management services to socially responsive investors.  To support healthy, inclusive communities, Walden offers clients an opportunity to invest in community development institutions, banks, and credit unions that support economic development and affordable housing.  It also partners with its clients to encourage portfolio companies to strengthen their corporate responsibility and accountability through shareholder engagement, which includes dialogue, shareholder resolutions, and proxy voting.  As of 2016, Walden had approximately $2.8 billion in assets under management.  Since 2004, Walden has been a division of Boston Trust & Investment Management Company, an employee-owned firm.

Trillium Asset Managment

Founded in 1982, Trillium Asset Management manages investment portfolios for individuals and institutions, with an overall value of $1 billion as of 2007. Trillium pursues an integrated approach to socially responsible investing that includes screening, shareholder advocacy, proxy voting, community investing, and public policy involvement. Trillium is majority owned by its employees, who elect two members to the company's board of directors. Read more about Trillium Asset Managment...

RSF Social Finance

RSF is a group of non-profit organizations that employs the following strategies: attracting and developing a community of philanthropists and socially-minded investors; putting donor and investor intentions to work through grants, loans, and investments in organizations that create environmental, social, and economic sustainability; and developing the capacity of individuals and organizations to explore the social implications of financial practices. In the past 15 years, assets under management have increased from $6,000 to over $100 million. Read more about RSF Social Finance...

Portfolio 21 Investments

Since 1982, Portfolio 21 Investments has maintained a commitment to environmental and social investing by investing in companies dedicated to the same environmental goals. Portfolio 21 sees global warming as “climate destabilization” which indicates social and economic instability as well; the most promising long-term companies are those that are environmentally sustainable. With total asset funds surpassing $250 million, Portfolio 21 offers services in a global equity mutual fund, an institutional share class, and separate account portfolio management. Read more about Portfolio 21 Investments...

Pax World

Founded in 1971 by two Methodist peace activists, Pax World is the nation's oldest socially screened investment management firm in the country, which uses a combined strategy of screening, shareholder activism, and community investments. As of December 2005, it had more than $2 billion of assets under management. Read more about Pax World...

Newground Social Investment

Founded in 1994, Newground Social Investment provides socially conscious money management, financial coaching, and shareholder advocacy consultation to individual, institutional, and not-for-profit clients. Read more about Newground Social Investment...

Investors' Circle

The IC Network is comprised of angel investors, professional venture capitalists, foundations, family offices and others who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable economy. Since 1992, Investors' Circle has facilitated the flow of over $130 million into over 200 companies and small funds. Read more about Investors' Circle...

Green Century Funds

Founded in 1991, Green Century Funds focuses primarily on environmentally responsible investing. As of March 2006, it had $87.5 million in assets under management. Because of its non-profit ownership, 100% of the net profits are dedicated to further efforts to preserve and protect the environment - efforts that include: campaigning for the protection of clean air, clean water, and open space; filing lawsuits against companies that illegally pollute; and advocating for reduced use of toxic chemicals and reduced emissions of global warming gases. Read more about Green Century Funds...

Equity Trust

Equity Trust is a national non-profit organization committed to helping communities to gain ownership interests in their food, land, and housing and protect the affordability of these resources. Equity Trust makes low interest loans to projects that promote environmentally conscious, economically sustainable land use, benefit people with low incomes, serve public as well as private interests, and promote active participation in social justice. Read more about Equity Trust...

Domini Social Investments

Domini is an investment firm specializing exclusively in socially responsible investing. The firm, founded in 1991, now manages more than $1.8 billion in assets for individual and institutional investors who wish to integrate social and environmental criteria into their investment decisions. Read more about Domini Social Investments...

Calvert Group

The Calvert Group, one of the pioneers of socially responsible investing, has been in the mutual fund business for over 30 years. It manages over $13.5 billion in assets in screened and non-screened portfolios for over 400,000 shareholders. Read more about Calvert Group...

Valdés & Moreno, Inc.

Valdés & Moreno, Inc. is an investment firm founded in 1994 that helps its clients invest in socially responsible markets such as clean technology. The firm also helps investment managers, with a focus on women and minorities, to obtain capital on their own, which they believe provides a catalyst to support affordable housing initiatives and small business growth in underserved areas. Valdés & Moreno employs 5 people and has annual revenue of more than $1 million. Read more about Valdés & Moreno, Inc....