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2021 Shareholder Advocacy Review: The Winds at Our Back

General, Impact Reports / By Michael Kramer

Natural Investments remained active in advocacy efforts in the past year to bring about needed improvements to the economic system while fostering equity and justice for women and people of color. We continued to engage major corporations on their policies and practices, funneled more capital to traditionally marginalized populations and educated policymakers about appropriate oversight […]

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2019 SRI Impact

General, New Developments / By Natural Investments

Natural Investments enjoyed significant growth since the last report, with sustainable, responsible, impact (SRI) managed assets increasing by 24% to $650M[1]. For the first time, we are using an impact data aggregation firm to delve deeper into our clients’ positive effects on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) areas of the economy. The additional information

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Progress on Private Prison Divestment

Advocacy & Policy, General / By Kirbie Crowe

The private prison divestment movement has gathered great momentum since our June 2019 webinar, “Private Prison Divestment—Justice for Refugees and Migrants”. During that event, we provided an overview of the movement’s history and an update on current developments, mainly related to the family separation crisis at the US and Mexico border. In June, only two

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Divest, Then Reinvest

General, Global Issues / By Scott Secrest

In January, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that 2019 was the second hottest year on record, following closely behind 2016. The planet’s five warmest years have all occurred since 2015, and nine of the ten warmest years have occurred since 2005. There is now overwhelming scientific consensus that CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels

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2003: How We Can Help Stop the Genocide in Darfur

General, Global Issues / By Natural Investments

This article is from our archives as part of the 100th issue special, celebrating twenty-five years of quarterly newsletters. Finding this article in our archives, shortly after the attempted coup in Sudan this spring, we are reminded that the human toll in resource-related conflict is real, and economic consequences can extend for decades. The statistics

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1994: Viva South Africa!

General, Global Issues / By Hal Brill

This article is from our archives as a part of our 100th issue special, celebrating twenty-five years of quarterly newsletters. References to divestment as an advocacy tool appear throughout this anniversary issue, but the South Africa divestment movement of the 1980s is credited with being the first successful campaign by socially-conscious investors to help catalyze

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