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Resources from FaithInvest
This whitepaper explores the mechanics, applications, and real-world examples of blended finance structures that have successfully mobilised capital toward environmental and social challenges while delivering competitive returns.
'Excellent', 'riveting', 'inspiring' were some of the words used to describe our Bold Plans and Faith-consistent Investing conference which brought over 100 people together in October 2022. Find out why, plus key takeaways, in our Bold Plans report.
For socially responsible investors, your banking partner matters. How can you find a bank that shares your values? And what are the trade-offs, if any? FaithInvest investigates the issue in its State of Sustainable Banking Report – now expanded and revised.
Our Good Intentions study (subtitled 'What faiths say about how they invest, and how they can do more') is a deep dive into publicly available faith investment policies and guidelines, and assesses the extent to which investments and values are aligned. First published in 2022, this is our 2023 update. Spoiler: They can do better.
What interest is there among NGOs in using non-grant financing mechanisms, known as grant alternatives, alongside grants to fund development? This discussion paper, written in collaboration with Christian Aid, outlines our research into this subject which was also the topic of our conference in May 2023.
FaithInvest has been working with the UK-based English Sangha Trust to develop faith-aligned investment policies and guidelines. This case study outlines the process and how EST reached the highest possible score on our proprietary faith-investing analytical framework.
Our Impact Investing Roadmap introduces three topics of relevance to faith-based investors: understanding alignment versus Impact, private markets for impact investing, and tradeoffs between impact and investment outcomes.
This paper explores the challenges faced by smaller faith groups that arise when the limited resources of small plans are stretched to meet the significant requirements for creating unique, customised investment programmes that reflect a faith’s values.
All faiths document what they value in terms of social principles and environmental beliefs, but not all have integrated those values into their investing. Our Investment Solutions team has produced a guide to help them do so: From Faith Values to Investment.
Resources from ICCR
During the 2025 proxy season, ICCR’s members continued to press their portfolio companies for changes in policies and practices to mitigate harmful environmental and social impacts. While engagement progress most often results from ongoing dialogues with companies, when dialogues stall or become unproductive, investors may file shareholder proposals as a means of escalation.
With almost every major business enterprise in the world employing some form of digital technology including AI and the pace of change sometimes seems relentless. At the same time, workers are deeply concerned about the impacts of these technologies on their jobs and their ability to work effectively and with dignity.
Throughout the 2023 proxy season, ICCR members continued to make the case that management of environmental and social risks, as well as strong corporate governance practices, significantly improves long-term corporate value to the benefit of all stakeholders. They filed 454 shareholder proposals requesting information and suggesting changes on a range of challenges.
This guide presents ICCR member-sponsored resolutions—both as lead- and co-filers—filed for 2025 corporate proxies as of February 15. The majority of these proposals will go to a vote at company annual meetings this spring. Some, however, have been challenged by companies or withdrawn by their proponents in exchange for agreements to implement the proposals’ requests.
During the 2024 proxy season, ICCR members continued to press their portfolio companies for changes in policies and practices that would mitigate harmful environmental and social impacts. Engagement progress most often results from ongoing dialogues with companies on a range of themes.
The need to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to limit warming and reach net zero by 2050 or sooner has never been more urgent. If these goals are not met, the threat posed by the climate crisis will be existential for both people and the planet. We need only look to the latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to see how climate risks are magnifying. The IPCC’s data, based on scientific evidence, is sobering.
If inadequately addressed, climate change is expected to lead to a slowdown in economic growth due to disruptions in production, supply chains, and trade, as well as increased costs associated with adaptation and mitigation efforts. Major banks can play a positive role within the transition, emphasizing their engagement with clients, policymakers, other financial institutions, civil society, and local communities.
In recent years, we have witnessed a major shift in how corporate stakeholders—investors, shareholders, employees, consumers, communities—understand the content of responsible business conduct. For investors, this shift is manifesting in new approaches to company engagement, first because of ethical concerns, then because of ESG concerns, and now, increasingly, because of legal concerns.
Many Corporate leaders continue to defend diversity programs as they come under attack from conservative critics. For diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, visible public support is more important than ever. This document provides a selection of quotes from leading companies that continue to promote and sustain their DEI programs, believing DEI contributes to long-term shareholder value.
On January 18 and 19, 2023, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) hosted a Just Transition Roundtable to provide a forum for utility companies and a broad range of stakeholders to share their perspectives on a just and equitable energy transition. This report aims to document lessons learned.
Resources from the GIIN
The development of the GIIN's impact performance benchmarks, a groundbreaking tool, enables investors to analyze the impact performance of their investments within a sector and compare their performance to peers and to the change needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As the impact investing industry’s field-builder, the GIIN conducts and publishes research throughout the year. These reports are a free and public good, providing the insights that investors need to navigate an ever-changing market. Download the GIIN’s market intelligence, the State of the Market 2024: Trends, Performance and Allocations.
The fund-level methodological approach and proof-of-concept prototypes seek to enable asset allocators to begin making more informed impact decisions based on quality of life for end beneficiaries, the scale of social or environmental need, and amount of capital available for deployment toward impact strategies.
Investments in climate solutions have emerged as a critical lever to accelerate the global transition to limit global warming to 2 C in addition to being an attractive investment opportunity. However, achieving global climate goals requires more than just allocating capital — it requires deliberate strategies that prioritize the most meaningful climate investment options at a pace and sequencing that is rapid enough to change the trajectory of global emissions before crossing tipping points
In this report, leaders at institutional asset owners (IAOs) will find a useful, practical guide to apply a holistic portfolio construction approach with an impact lens. It outlines the steps an IAO can take to implement this strategy, starting with planning and conceptualization and moving toward the ultimate goal of an impact lens applied across an entire portfolio.
Gender lens investing (GLI) is a strategy or approach to investing that considers gender-based factors across the investment process to advance gender equality and better inform investment decisions. As such, it is best understood as a series of investing innovations through the intentional leveraging of women’s inclusion, empowerment and advancement, amongst other catalysts towards gender equality.
This report explores how corporate treasury functions can contribute meaningfully to organizational goals through impact investing. This report offers a practical framework for companies starting a corporate impact investing strategy that delivers both financial and impact returns.
The report offers impact investors a clear and concise overview of the interaction among various institutions and typical timelines for the European Union's policymaking process on sustainable finance. This is a rapidly developing and important area for impact investing and may influence global perceptions.
This report analyzes the progress of impact investments included in the Global Impact Investing Network’s energy benchmark toward global climate goals. As global temperatures are estimated to rise well beyond the 1.5 C target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, many impact investors seek investments that reduce emissions in line with this goal.
Institutional asset owners, wielding immense financial clout, increasingly display an interest in aligning their investment approaches with broader social and environmental objectives. This research explores ways to embed positive impact objectives alongside financial targets within institutional investment philosophies, policies and strategies
This report analyzes investment-level, annualized impact performance data contributed by investors to the GIIN’s forestry impact performance benchmark. Data pertain to direct impact investments in forestry, or investments made directly into companies or projects with the intent to create a positive, measurable social or environmental impact alongside a financial return.
This report analyzes the strategies that faith-based investors are using to advance racial equity through impact measurement and management (IMM) practices. Faith-based institutional investors hold over $5 trillion USD. Many have a strong history as pioneers in aligning their investing strategies with their values.
Our research team has determined that the size of the impact investing market is $1.571 trillion USD. That’s $1.571 trillion USD in assets allocated toward the solutions we need to tackle our collective challenges and reach the Sustainable Development Goals.
The GIIN has developed a portfolio-wide approach to inform impact choices in the investment process. This approach is used by two distinct, asset-class-agnostic impact prototype tools to enable rigorous decision-making. These two prototype tools are intended as proof-of-concepts, demonstrating what is feasible in impact analytics.
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