Impact Investing
Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone
Impact investors can support a more just economy by prioritizing alternative ownership enterprises that shift power away from shareholders to workers, the community, and the planet.
Tag: Socially Responsible Business
Nonprofits & NGOs
From Doing Good to Being Good: The Movement for Nonprofit Social Responsibility
Nonprofits today are expected to go beyond their missions to adopt a wider set of commitments and values. This movement is remaking the sector in surprising ways.
Business
The Portfolio Defense of ESG
Shareholder stewardship should prioritize companies’ effects on the economy and investors’ entire portfolios.
Measurement & Evaluation
The God’s-Eye View of ESG
Satellite technology can remake the reporting of environmental, social, and governance standards. But this spatial finance revolution requires help from industry and government.
Webinar
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Data on Purpose 2023: “Making Tech Work for Workers”
This two-day open-access virtual conference we will bring together some of the sharpest minds in this field to explore the risks of tech innovation that fails to serve labor, and envision what is needed to build a better, more worker-centered digital economy.
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Business
Reorient the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability
Corporate sustainability programs have grown dramatically, but biases have crippled their effectiveness. We identify three critical steps for reform.
Environment
The Complicity of Corporate Sustainability
Long hailed as a major piece of the climate solution, sustainable business practices have not only fallen short: They even enable the continued dominance of fossil fuel.
Business
The Dangerous Allure of Win-Win Strategies
For the past 30 years, celebrated academics and business leaders have promoted the idea that companies often profit by addressing social and environmental problems. Although these proposals have been hailed as promising breakthroughs, they are unscientific and counterproductive.
Education
School Districts Must Embrace Social Responsibility
Schools must help liberate their students and their families from social injustice and support the revitalization and sustainability of their communities and environment.
Environment
Climate Action Is Too Big for ESG Mandates
As a macro risk factor, climate change needs to be disentangled from the other social and governance mandates in the ESG investing rubric.