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Community investing gets a boost from Starbucks
By Sally Hatch We’ve been writing about how the “market” for community investing (a.k.a. impact investing) has commanded much more attention in the past five years. I just returned from the SRI in the Rockies conference, which used to have maybe two or three breakout sessions on community investing over a two-and-a-half-day period. This year there was an entire day’s worth of forums – plus an address from the head of the CDFI Fund (a program of the U.S. Treasury). Despite the conference's name...
29 weeks 21 hours ago | more
Community investing builds momentum
By Sally Hatch Community investing is gaining quite a bit of attention around the country. The recent SRI in the Rockies conference in San Antonio attracted more than 530 people – investors as well as institutions and organizations (like the Community Loan Fund) that provide investment opportunities that are generally described as "socially responsible." I expected that much attention would be devoted to traditional SRI topics, like which public companies are working in the environmental,...
46 weeks 5 days ago | more
Call us a "community investment"
By Sally Hatch Here’s a question we’re asked all the time: Is an investment in the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund considered a “socially responsible” investment? It’s not as easily answered as you might think. Although the Community Loan Fund is certainly aligned with many of the values and tenets of what is commonly known as socially responsible investing – especially those that promote social good – it’s not a label we put on ourselves. When most people think of socially responsible...
46 weeks 5 days ago | more
Investing full circle
By Sally Hatch I’m privileged to work every day with investors in the Community Loan Fund – from individuals with small investments to the largest foundations and financial institutions. They have many different motivations for investing with us, so I have to know my audience – that makes my job really interesting. One of my favorite investor experiences happened late last year. Only eight years earlier, residents of the Woodstock Cooperative in Woodstock, NH had bought their manufactured-...
46 weeks 5 days ago | more