![]() ![]() Here atCalvert Impact Capital we seek out portfolio partners who share these commitments to diversity and equity, expressed not only through who they lend to, but also how their management and leadership reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.Ī few examples from our portfolio that embody this commitment include:īenefit Chicago, is a $100 million collaboration by The Chicago Community Trust, the MacArthur Foundation, and Calvert Impact Capital to finance nonprofits and social enterprises in Chicago, like Autonomy Works that provides meaningful employment for adults with autism and Sweet Beginnings that provides job training to residents who were formerly incarcerated.Ĭhicanos Por La Causa (CPLC ) helps migrants, seniors, refugees, and other low-income people in the Southwest US achieve self-sufficiency through access to quality housing, healthcare, education, jobs, and political representation. Our approach is supported by our investor community: 26% state gender equity is a top concern 36% state racial justice and equity is a top concern and 70% are more interested in investing to support racial equity since spring 2020.įaith Driven Investors have been our partners since our earliest days, and today include congregations, churches, health care systems, mutual funds, and foundations, and span denominations and affiliations-Catholic, Baptist, Evangelical, Mennonite, Jewish, Unitarian, Methodist, and many others. This is a key reason for why, in 2020, we signed the Racial Justice Investor Pledge, an initiative led by institutional faith investors, that includes both faith and secular signatories. Our mission is deeply rooted in addressing structural inequities, channeling capital to communities traditionally excluded from our financial system, particularly low-income communities, women, and communities of color. The prospect of embracing diversity and equity in approaches to investing offers us profound opportunities for positive impact.Īt Calvert Impact Capital, we have been investing with an explicit commitment to justice and equity-in the US and globally-for more than 25 years. By embracing the diversity of our communities, seeing ourselves in the “other,” we open ourselves to possibility, abundance, hope, and opportunity for people, planet, and all of creation.ĭuring this past year of great upheaval amidst global pandemic, climate crisis, and moral awakening, many Faith Driven Investors have asked these questions over and over again: Where can I invest my money so that my neighbors, my community, the stranger-so that those in need and in deep crisis, and those disenfranchised by entrenched systems of discrimination, systemic racism, and disempowerment, can also thrive and partake in an abundant future? Where can my investments support a world that benefits people and planet, rather than create harm? How can the decisions I make today about my portfolio create a sustainable and just future for my children’s children-and for my neighbor’s children’s children as well.įaith Driven Investors are stewards of their resources and those of the communities they support, serve, and lead. ![]() When we look beyond the socially constructed and restrictive barriers of race, class, faith, and gender, we may at first see the stranger, then we recognize our neighbor, and verily, we also see ourselves. In Leviticus 19:18, we are commanded to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Soon after we read, “The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your own citizens you shall love the stranger as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” ( Lev.
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