The 2025 Impact & Public Benefit Report outlines how Natural Investments creates positive social, environmental, and economic outcomes through its investments, internal practices, and industry advocacy. It showcases data and stories about the firm’s impact on communities, its work to advance a more just form of capitalism, and its leadership in promoting racial equity and inclusive ownership.
For decades, Natural Investments has shared the collective impacts of our social, economic, and environmental investments and activities via our newsletters. In recent years, these took the form of an annual impact report. Though committed to operating as a triple-bottom-line enterprise for many years, in transitioning to a Public Benefit LLC under Delaware law in
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Sustainability crept into mainstream consciousness in the late ‘80s, and while it started as an offshoot of the environmental movement, it migrated into business, finance, and government policy soon thereafter. In 1990, there were about a dozen socially responsible mutual funds, and today, there are over 500. Since it launched nearly 20 years ago, the
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A year of relative economic stability and prosperity, in 2024 Natural Investments maintained a steady growth period. Natural Investments grew 18 percent to $1.7 billion in socially responsible investment (SRI) assets under management between new clients seeking SRI and market value increase. Natural Investments channels capital into investments with intentional and measurable impact, while meeting
The fate of capitalism is at stake. Those who want to remove government obstacles and revert to the good ol’ days of building a white empire by unethically exploiting labor, communities, customers, People of Color, immigrants, and the environment are having their moment. They’re weaving their dangling threads of power through tax loopholes and harmful
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Many people who embrace sustainable, socially responsible, and impact investing are feeling surprise, disbelief, and despair since the election. It confirmed that tens of millions of people have different values from ours, and it remains baffling that tens of millions of registered voters didn’t think it was important enough to vote. It is too early
The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world and has often been called the “lungs of the Earth,” because of the billions of trees that absorb carbon dioxide, produce 20 percent of Earth’s oxygen, and slow climate change. Research conducted by the Brazilian Research Scientist Dr. Antônio Donato Nobre, and sponsored by several
Preserving Earth’s Lungs: Learning from the Guardians Protecting the Amazon Rainforest Read More »
Natural investments’ Racial equity team (RE team) was established in 2021 to champion our firm’s internal efforts to foster a just, equitable, and safe workplace for all advisors and staff members. The team is currently composed of five advisors who serve a term of at least two years, and participants are compensated for being part
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If you own a stock—even one share—you are a part business owner (or shareholder) of that company. This gives you the opportunity to have your say on how the company is governed through your right to submit a proxy vote. You can vote on issues like board elections, executive compensation, and policy changes. And you
With or Without Advisors: Options for Voting Your Values During Corporate Proxies Read More »
After the supreme Court ended the practice of race-conscious admissions in higher education in 2023, conservative lawsuits sprung up against entities that have tried to level the playing field for women and People of Color who have been disproportionately left out of venture capital funding. A 2023 study from Deloitte, Venture Forward, and the National
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