Green/ Social Investing

Organizations

Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia
http://www.asria.org/
Association promoting SRI in Asia.

Building Communities
http://www.communityinvest.org
This site is an introduction to community investing and the joint Co-op America and Social Investment Forum 1% campaign to put 1% of assets into community investments by 2005. There's a streaming video on the subject and links to resources.

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance
http://www.cdvca.org/
CDVCA promotes use of the tools of venture capital to create jobs, entrepreneurial capacity and wealth to advance the livelihoods of low-income people and the economies of distressed communities.

Community Investing Center
http://www.communityinvest.org/
Discussion of what community investing is - for individuals and professionals - and a database of investments.

Corporate Watch
http://www.corpwatch.org
Aiming to "lift the veil on corporate 'smoke and mirrrors'," Corporate Watch offers solid research for ethical investors.

Eurosif
http://www.eurosif.info/
A pan-European NGO covering socially responsible investing. Eurosif (European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum) unites the social investment forums of many European countries - UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Eurosif will conduct research, promote shareholder action to influence corporate behavior, and expand the network of social investment forums into other European countries.

Finance Institute for Global Sustainability (FIGS)
http://www.figsnet.org
FIGS is a global facilitator for evaluating and integrating sustainability criteria into the financial decision-making process. Large collection of literature on how environmental and other sustainability issues are correlated to financial decisions and performance around the world.

Investor Network on Climate Risk
http://www.incr.com/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=198&srcid=-2
$4 trillion network of investors that promotes better understanding of the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change.

Investors' Circle
http://www.investorscircle.net
Network of socially responsible venture capital investors. Sponsors two venture fairs annually to discuss social investing and to review investment opportunities.

National Community Capital Association
http://www.communitycapital.org/
Capital for social, economic and political justice.