The 2026 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 our firm’s impact on communities, our work to advance a more just form of capitalism, and our leadership in promoting racial equity and […]
Feel the fear and do it anyway was an 1980s self-help mantra that seems more relevant now than ever in these uncertain and concerning times. This moment in history has stoked feelings of fear, overwhelm, outrage, and futility. The speed at which our democratic norms have unraveled is shocking, even for those of us who
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Last year the market exhibited a brief period of instability in the spring of 2025, followed by recovery and a solid growth period for the remainder of the year. Natural Investments’ assets under management grew to $1.84 billion, an approximately 8% increase, between new clients seeking SRI investmentsand market value stability. While the US capital
Natural Investments, through its involvement with the Shareholder Rights Group, met with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins earlier this year. We expressed concerns regarding the commission’s decision to eliminate its written responses to companies wanting to exclude shareholder proposals from ballots, noting that it deprives companies and investors clarity about the permissibility of proposals and works
Authors Mago Smith is a co-founder of Gamsa Gardens, an agroecology collective based on Hawai’i Island, and Kumsa Maphalala, daughter of NI advisor Malaika Maphalala, is a Mahi’ai Technician at Malama I Ke Ala ‘Ulii. In March, the 2026 Bioneers Conference brought hundreds of people together to reimagine our connection to land as a personal
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“In brainstorming ideas for our organization’s name, we reflected on the famous line from Mary Oliver’s poem ‘The Summer Day’,”says Tandy Taylor. “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? We settled on Wild Vision Coalition, because these students have a wild vision for their lives that we can
Social movements are grappling with a deepening crisis — one measured not only in lost funding, but in the collective emotional toll of watching philanthropy quietly walk back promises to Black and brown communities. Much of this retreat stems from a chilling effect across the philanthropic sector, as foundations and funders grow increasingly fearful of
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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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With nearly a thousand published pages in three books over close to 35 years, what has been our impact? If you add in the more than 100 issues of this newsletter and all the related articles, blog posts, and social media posts, what difference have we made? And what can we learn going forward? I
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