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Socially Responsible Investing for Non-Profits
Who among us has not contemplated the notion of making the world a better place? For professionals who've chosen careers in the nonprofit sector or in faith organizations, those contemplations have shaped their lives, their day to day, their moment-by-moment efforts. Encouragingly, more and more for-profit companies are weaving altruism into their missions, as well.
But often times, as organization leaders assess the resources they have to do world-changing work, they overlook a powerful lever directly within reach: the organization's financial investment portfolio.
Today, thanks to the rise of sustainable and socially responsible impact investing —a potent and rapidly growing specialty within the investment field— leaders can make sure the mission of their organization's money furthers the mission of people and ideals. FOR Investment Partners was an early advocate of this investment approach and has more than two decades of expertise.
Academic studies have shown that socially responsible investing achieves investment outcomes competitive to traditional investing strategies while attempting to mitigate risk by taking into account liabilities —or strengths— associated with a company's environmental, social and governance activities. In this sense, socially responsible investing employs a powerful strategy: the organization furthers its moral mission AND it achieves the financial goals it needs to carry out its day-to-day work and secure its future.