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Category Archives: Community InvestingBy Malaika Maphalala I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kat Taylor, co-founder of One PacificCoast Bank, a “beneficial bank” newly arrived in Portland. A fan of banks with strong community-service visions, I was interested to hear about their work, … Continue reading Our very own James Frazier is a movie star! Well, maybe he’s not the only one who can point to an online video with pride, but we’re excited to see him sharing his great work as part of a vibrant … Continue reading Andy Loving has once again received national recognition for his compelling approach to investing and investment advising. This time, the kudos came from Financial Planning magazine, which just named the winners of its second annual Influencer Awards. The editors of … Continue reading By James Frazier If you believe that positive change in the world must include fundamental changes in our economy and how we do business, and if you believe that the most power we have to affect real change lies right … Continue reading By Malaika Maphalala Impact Investment , what Natural Investments has termed Regenerative Investment, is an emerging market that is becoming recognized as a new asset class in its own right. It’s generally defined as direct investment aimed at solving social … Continue reading By Michael Kramer Four years ago, I attended an Investor’s Circle (IC) conference at which Carlo Petrini, founder of the global Slow Food movement, was an honored guest. Woody Tasch, Chairman of IC, used the opportunity to outline his hopes … Continue reading By James Frazier Right now, around the country, groups of citizens both small and large are reclaiming their money as a force for positive social change. Whether as natural investors, local currency groups, the Slow Money Alliance, or others, this … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, By James Frazier, Community Investing, Leading Edge Developments
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By Malaika Maphalala Alex Counts, founder of Grameen Foundation, delivered a great speech at Portland’s ReVisioning Value conference this year that gave new insight on the remarkable and unexpected side effects of microfinance in poor communities around the world. Grameen … Continue reading
Posted in By Malaika Maphalala, Community Investing, Global Issues
Tagged Green Investing, microfinance, sri
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By Hal BrillThis article first appeared in the June 2009 edition of the Natural Investing newsletter It’s good to be home! In the last issue I wrote from beautiful Patagonia and shared some of the environmental issues we learned about. … Continue reading
Posted in By Hal Brill, Community Investing, Global Issues
Tagged bolivia, Green Investing, microfinance, travel
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The Green Wave is coming. That’s what Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green for All, told us at last week’s SRI in the Rockies conference. The question isn’t will it come, the question is, will America participate and will it help … Continue reading By Hal Brill In spite of all today’s economic challenges, this is an exciting time for values-based investors. The range of investments has grown from just a handful of SRI funds when we started in the 80’s to hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in By Hal Brill, Community Investing
Tagged farming, food, integral investing, slow money, sri
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By Michael Kramer This article first appeared in the Fall 2006 edition of the Natural Investing newsletter In the 15 months since hurricanes devastated the Gulf Coast Region, natural investors have participated in revitalizing communities through investing in affordable housing, minority-owned … Continue reading
Posted in By Michael Kramer, Community Investing
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