Web Link: www.communityinvestmentnetwork.com The Community Investment Network (SM) is a powerful, comprehensive on-line, 24/7 Web-accessed resource for news, information, data, perspective and opinion, reliable research reports, and for networking. CIN is designed to provide easy access links to government, not-for-profit and corporate organizations and other information sources. The Network contains helpful tools and resources for community development and investment interests in all locales and geographic areas. The Network is available at no cost to community development leadership, civic leaders, public officials, journalists, researchers, public policymakers, funders, and others. Registration for use is required. The Community Investment Network (SM ) is designed to be a national information resource for individuals and organizations interested in creating, rejuvenating and maintaining healthy communities in the United States and other countries. We have made this resource easy to access and to use. This powerful Web-accessed resource is intended to be for the continuous sharing of useful and actionable news, research data, information, perspectives, and opinions related to all aspects of community development, community-based investment, re-development, and the advancement of social and economic justice.
Access to The Community Investment Network is
provided as a public service by the National Community Reinvestment
Coalition (NCRC).
Web Link: http://www.iccr.org/ethvest.php EthVest supplies news, data and intelligence on ethical-, values-, social- and faith-based investing. This is a subscription-based research engine sponsored by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. ICCR's EthVest provides subscribers with detailed information on more than a decade of faith-based and socially responsible shareholder activism, complete texts and voting outcomes for more than 2,000 shareholder resolutions — searchable by company, year and issue — and timely alerts advising of ICCR shareholder activities, new proxy resolutions and negotiated corporate actions. About ICCR:
For over thirty years
the Interfaith Center
on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement.
ICCR's
membership is an
association of 275 faith-based institutional investors, including national
denominations, religious communities, pension funds, endowments, hospital
corporations, economic development funds and publishing companies.
ICCR and its
members press companies to be socially and environmentally responsible. Each
year ICCR's
religious institutional investors sponsor over 100 shareholder resolutions
on major social and environmental issues. The combined portfolio value of
ICCR's
member organizations
is estimated to be $110 billion. The total value of ICCR-influence exceeds
$1 trillion in 2006. |
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