Resources
Know your Acronyms!
AUM - Assets Under Management
BOP - Bottom of the Pyramid (used by folks focused on poverty alleviation)
CDFI - Community Development Finance Institution - a Treasury Department certification
CIC - Community Investment Corporation, formed in 2005 in the UK for balancing community interest, director compensation and investor returns.
CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility
ESG - Environment, Social & Governance
MFI - Microfinance institution
MRI - Mission Related Investment (used by foundations to describe investments that support both the endowment and the charitable mission)
PRI -Program Related Investment (an IRS compliant investment made primarily because it is a way to support the mission)
SPC - Social Purpose Corporation, the Washington State corporate organization that helps a company embed social purpose in its DNA
SROI - Social Return On Investment
SRI - Socially Responsible Investing/ Sustainable & Responsible Impact
TBL - Triple Bottom Line
Ratings & Metrics
B-Corporation - a rating & standard setting group for companies
CSR Hub - aggregated ratings of companies
UN SDGs - the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Investment Management
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility - folks who have been doing this work almost as long as I have been alive!
The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment - education on responsible investing
Investor's Circle - a national angel group focused on social impact investing
SOCAP - the Social Capital Markets conference every fall in San Francisco.
Impact Assets 50 - leading impact investment fund managers
Renewal Partners - the work of Carol Newell and Joel Solomon to explore investing with impact
As You Sow - leaders in shareholder advocacy for environmental and social issues
Donut Economics - some of best current thinking on what an economy for all looks like. Also a book!
Fledge - the best startup and angel ecosystem I know of