CDFI Roundtable – Now in Baton Rouge!

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions

Serving the Underserved: Building Alternative Financial Services  in Low-Income Communities    When:  April 15, 2015 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Westerfield Conference Center | 1800 S. Acadian Thruway  Baton Rouge, LA Cost:     $45 per person   The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, sponsored by …

Innovation Forum – Engaging Stakeholder in Frontier Markets, October 30-31

Ethical Markets - RPartner Announcements and News

How to effectively engage stakeholders in frontier markets An exclusive two-day executive training workshop, certified by the CSR Training Institute 30-31 October, 2014, London Introduction An unhappy stakeholder with a cell phone and internet connection can turn a problem into a crisis that can threaten the very survival of your …

ESRA Online Course in English (1 – 19 September 2014)

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

              Upcoming Course:   From 1 to 19 September, 2014   Registrations       The ESRA Online Course aims to provide managers, leaders and analysts in commercial, corporate, investment and retail banking with the tools for environmental and social risks analysis, to facilitate the identification, assessment …

TBLI BLOG: Euros 700 Million Impact Investment

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

    TBLI CONFERENCE™: building a global community of ESG & Impact Investors TBLI BLOG Words by Robert Rubinstein Euros 700 Million Impact Investment 16 Jul 2014 12:44 pm | Robert Rubinstein TBLI Inspiration At our recent TBLI Club, Robert Dijksterhuis, Director International Programmes at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency spoke on the new …

B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance

WAYNE, Pa., Mar. 19 /CSRwire/ – Today, 92 companies worldwide were recognized for creating the most positive, overall social and environmental impact by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list. The ‘B Corp Best for the World’ list honors …

Strategically Aware Investing (SAI) concept takes off

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

PRESS ALERT STRICT EMBARGO 0000hrs (GMT) 3 December 2013 Strategically Aware Investing (SAI) concept takes off New asset manager to have sharp emerging markets focus L?????, ? D??????? ???? — A new London-based asset manager launched yesterday will include a strong BRICs and emerging markets focus as part of its …

NEWNET: Australia’s new government takes aim at carbon tax

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

9 September Today’s Top Stories ESG at the heart of African investment firm Development Partners InternationalPREMIUM Pristine Sun lines up $25m debt for 6MW California solar US cleantech startup fund receives $30m boost from Navy Pristine Sun lines up $25m debt for 6MW California solar ESG at the heart of …

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Alicia Gómez Martínez, Research Professor, Faculty of Accounting, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico – September 6, 2013

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, The Power of Yin

Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.”  The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience.  The goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: To collect a catalogue of examples of …

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Sonia Kowal, Director, Socially Responsible Investing, Zevin Asset Management, LLC, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America – August 2, 2013

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, The Power of Yin