CIIC is excited to announce our March Community Forum, part of an ongoing series of webinars focused on specific issues for CIIC community members to engage in open dialogue, exchange resources, and identify opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration.

Women religious congregations have long been leaders in making direct, community-centered investments, decades before the definition of "impact investing" existed. This panel discussion will showcase women in the Catholic impact investing space - both asset owners and asset managers - who have been champions in gender equity and gender lens investing and highlight how female leadership contributes to social impact and strong investment performance.

Our Panelists will be:

• Sr. Teresa George, Provincial Councillor/Provincial Treasurer, Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise

• Sarah Smith, Director, Mercy Partnership Fund, Mercy Investment Services

• Sonia Kowal, President, Zevin Asset Management (ZAM)

• Moderator: Jessica Cook, Managing Director, Ascension Investment Management

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-investing-in-women-pioneers-in-the-catholic-impact-investing-space-registration-526843211227

CIIC is excited to announce our October Community Forum, part of an ongoing series of webinars focused on specific issues for CIIC community members to engage in open dialogue, exchange resources, and identify opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration.

Impact and place-based investing strategies have long allowed health care systems to earn a financial return on their investments while producing a positive social and environmental impact within their communities. This panel discussion will highlight Catholic organizations that have incorporated their mission or charism into their investment portfolios, and how they've been able to address local healthcare inequities through these investments.

Our Panelists will be:

• Pablo Bravo, System Vice President, Community Health, CommonSpirit Health

• Dr. Alexander Garza, Chief Community Health Officer, SSM Health

• Moderator: Tara Kenney, Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame

We’ll follow up the forum by sharing a learnings report with all participants that summarizes the ideas and best practices discussed.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/addressing-health-inequities-through-impact-investing-ciic-community-forum-registration-422889342407

CIIC is excited to announce our June Community Forum, part of an ongoing series of webinars focused on specific issues for CIIC community members to engage in open dialogue, exchange resources, and identify opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration.

This year marks the seventh anniversary of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on care for creation. Pope Francis opened up the conversation about caring for creation being a moral issue and established a helpful framework for understanding Catholic social teaching in the context of today’s ecological crisis and climate emergency. This webinar will showcase how Catholic organizations have incorporated Laudato Si’ into their impact investing work and will share resources for those interested in starting their own impact investing journeys centered around the Pope’s encyclical.

Our Speakers will be:

• Elizabeth Garlow, Co-Founder, Francesco Collaborative

• John Paul Slosar, Senior Vice President, Healthcare Ethics, Ascension

• Fr. Seamus O'Neill, Bursar, St. Patrick's Missionary Society

We’ll follow up the forum by sharing a learnings report with all participants that summarizes the ideas and best practices discussed.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ciic-june-community-forum-laudato-si-environmental-impact-investing-registration-347467754407

CIIC is excited to announce our March Community Forum, part of an ongoing series of webinars focused on a specific issue area for CIIC community members to engage in open dialogue, exchange resources, and identify opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration.

Catholic investors encounter many considerations to build or grow their impact investing portfolio, such as aligning mission, achieving social impact, and seeking financial returns. This open discussion will identify successful approaches that Catholic investors have taken to further their impact investing journey - including processes of establishing governance, aligning investment policy statements, and navigating challenges to implementation.

Our Speakers will be:

• Bryan Pini, President & Chief Investment Officer, Mercy Investment Services

• Sr. Sue Ernster, Treasurer and Vice President, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA)

• Jim Mahoney, VP Investments, Bon Secours Mercy Health

We’ll follow up the forum by sharing a learnings report with all participants that summarizes the ideas and best practices discussed.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ciic-march-community-forum-growing-your-impact-investing-portfolio-registration-291423203647

CIIC is excited to announce our October Community Forum, part of an ongoing series of webinars focused on a specific issue area for CIIC community members to engage in open dialogue, exchange resources, and identify opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration.

COVID-19 has created a critical, national affordable housing crisis. Today the U.S. is 6.8 million units short of what is needed to meet housing needs. October’s Forum will focus on Affordable Housing, supporting the basic need for access to affordable housing for families and individuals.

Our Speakers will be:

• Nathan Taft, Partner/Senior Managing Director, Acquisitions, Jonathan Rose Companies

• Daryl Newell, President, Seaway Bank (a division of Self-Help Federal Credit Union)

• Evan Gill, Senior Director, Policy and Legislative Affairs, Catholic Charities USA

We’ll follow up the forum by sharing a learnings report with all participants that summarizes the ideas and best practices discussed.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ciic-october-community-forum-affordable-housing-registration-172883458077

CIIC is excited to announce our June Community Forum, part of an ongoing series of webinars focused on a specific issue area for CIIC community members to engage in open dialogue, exchange resources, and identify opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration.

In honor of World Refugee Awareness Month in June, our Forum will focus on Refugee Lens Investing - the deployment of capital toward refugees and the communities hosting them. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, by the end of 2019 there were 79.5 million forcibly displaced people that became refugees or sought asylum due to conflict, persecution or natural disasters. Impact investing in refugees can stimulate meaningful economic growth, and our forum will focus on the network and funds that are developing refugee lens investing and creating funds that support these communities.

Speakers include:

• Tim Docking - Managing Director, Refugee Investment Network

• Yanki Tshering - Executive Director, Accompany Capital

• Jay Dunn - Executive Director, DF Impact Capital / Dunn Family Charitable Foundation

We’ll follow up the forum by sharing a learnings report with all participants that summarizes the ideas and best practices discussed. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ciic-june-community-forum-refugee-lens-investing-registration-156134180537

Join GCCM Canada and CIIC Board Member Jason Dudek for part of a series of Faith and the Common Good. Register here: https://www.faithcommongood.org/positive_and_negative_asset_screens

In anticipation of Earth Day on April 22, Impact Capital Managers and Morrison Foerster, along with Toniic, are pleased to welcome you to the official launch event previewing key findings from a new ICM-MoFo study focused on Legal Innovation in Impact Investing. This special preview event is for members of our valued peer networks; the official report will be made available to the public on April 22. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legal-innovation-in-impact-investing-tools-applications-and-whats-next-tickets-150079827805

Please join us for an insightful and inspiring conversation on the opportunities for faith-based institutional investors to express their values while accelerating solutions for both the planet and her people. Session speakers will include practitioners, scholars, and fund managers who will provide insights on their approaches to faith-based impact investing. Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1817762514276055311?utm_source=Full+GIIN+List&utm_campaign=689ddeecf5-GIIN_Newsletter_March+4+2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f8bf31c933-689ddeecf5-216042638

What are the practical steps and considerations involved in cementing your investment guidelines with your faith values and beliefs? What are the challenges you might encounter in the process and is it really possible to make sustainable returns and have impact? This one-hour webinar, led by the FaithInvest team, Nana Francois, Director of Membership, and Mathew Jensen, Membership Engagement, will provide in-depth practical information on how to create and audit policies and guidelines, why they can be foundational for investment programmes – from index strategies to impact – and how they can be applied. We will be joined for the first half of the webinar by FaithInvest’s Chairman Dave Zellner, Chief Investment Officer of Wespath, which has been serving the United Methodist Church for over 100 years and is the largest reporting faith-based pension fund in the USA. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_78l1BuyBS6KCQ2IiyUmJgA?timezone_id=America%2FNew_York

We all have a choice, both as individuals and as communities, to live a simple life that is beneficial to both humans and the planet. Within many faith teachings and traditions lies the encouragement to live a life in harmony with the environment. This includes areas of food, travel, personal investment, charitable giving, and energy use, just to name a few. This webinar will engage key thinkers and practitioners in a conversation on self-assessment, pilgrimage, tourism, family life, purchasing power, and the art of simple living from a faith perspective. This is part of the wider webinar series hosted by FaithInvest, INCR and the WWF Beliefs and Values Programme on Creating your Faith Long-term Plan.

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A3CbM3DsQpacLbjJrArfIg?timezone_id=America%2FChicago

Covid-19 creates worldwide turbulences in health, economy, politics, education, religious answers and much more. Allocation of resources – capital, human and natural resources – with the best impact on development becomes even more important. Churches and church-related partners and investors have a great potential to contribute to faith-driven and impactful investing.

After successful conferences in last three years (2020 Report, 2019 Report, 2018 Report) the focus of the conference 2021 is on Walk the talk by sharing experiences of successful and challenging investment projects, strengthening impactful cooperation between faith partners and investors, and present tools to make projects investable

Read more about the conference here: https://www.gafoundation.world/en/conference/conference-2021

Register here: https://e3287.hubilo.com/ticketing/#/ticket

Globally, faiths own around eight percent of all habitable land on earth, and more than five percent of forests. Moreover, an emphasis on the importance and duty of caring for creation is central to the teachings of many faiths. This webinar will explore the theologies of land from a number of faith perspectives to share knowledge on sustainable use, management and, protection of land assets and all that is encompassed within them, with a particular focus on biodiversity. Through a conversation with experts in this field, guidance on how to best design programmes for land asset management will be provided. This is part of the wider webinar series hosted by FaithInvest, INCR and the WWF Beliefs and Values Programme on Creating your Faith Long-term Plan.

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fCTkzDVETfGOAeL6onaxrA?timezone_id=America%2FChicago

Join Shine and GreenFaith on 2 December for a virtual multi-faith discussion on clean energy access initiatives.

From a religious perspective, the fact that over 800 million people lack access to modern forms of energy - thereby suffering severe consequences - is just plain wrong.

That’s why The Shine Campaign is inviting you to join our next community convening, on 2 December at 9:30 AM EST. Our interactive call, entitled “Religions Rising,” will feature spiritual and faith leaders from India and Africa who are providing vital leadership on clean energy access at the grassroots level.

You’ll hear from Mr. LH Manjunath of the Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project, Rosemary Terry Njoki of the Don Bosco Vocational Training Center, Irene Musimeta of Medical Teams International, Andrea Johnson of Green Empowerment and Rev. Jenny Phillips of the United Methodist Church.

Moderated by Rev. Fletcher Harper of The Shine Campaign and GreenFaith, the discussion with these leaders will describe the urgent needs of communities in India and Africa and how they are addressing them.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/religions-rising-registration-129596305037?aff=socialtracking

The Inclusive Capital Collective (ICC) is a group of over 90 community fund managers and entrepreneur support organizations who have been designing and developing shared technical and financial infrastructure for aggregating and deploying  financial capital and other resources to BIPOC communities. 

A joint project of Common Future and Zebras Unite, and funded by the Surdna Foundation, the ICC is motivated by the need for better “plumbing” to drive capital to BIPOC entrepreneurs. Its purpose is to overcome systemic racism through the equitable access to capital. 

The ICC achieves this purpose by aiding and amplifying the ingenuity of capital innovators and service providers who have been developing innovative solutions for their communities such as real estate based strategies in Chicago, Colorado and Atlanta, or character based loan products in Indian Country, and by connecting them in a jointly owned and governed network. 

This work was important before the pandemic, and it has only become more urgent now. The ICC has just concluded a 6 month strategic roadmapping process, and we invite you to join us for a conversation about its next phase of implementation.

Register Her: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/icc_briefing2/register

We are excited to announce our November Community Forum, the first in an ongoing series of webinars focused on a specific issue area for CIIC community members to engage in open dialogue, exchange resources and identify opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration. November’s Forum will focus on Racial Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Speakers include:

• Ryan Strode, Program Director of Philanthropy, Franciscan Sisters of Mary - Strategies for starting the DEI conversation with your financial advisor/asset manager as a Catholic asset owner

• James Malone, Chief Financial Officer, Community Capital Management - Minority Community Advancement Racial Empowerment Strategy (CARES): Investing in positive impact empowerment for minority individuals, businesses, and communities

• James Forbes, CEO + Co-Founder, Good Life Growing (GLG) - How investors can empower communities through intentional investment and thoughtful dialogue with investees and beneficiaries

• Lisa Hayles, Investment Manager, Trillium Asset Management - Reflections on the issue of diversity in asset management and across the finance sector

We’ll follow up the forum by sharing a learnings report with all participants that summarizes the ideas and best practices discussed. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ciic-november-community-forum-registration-126307389803

An overview of how Catholic organizations, religious & individuals can make investments that deliver positive environmental & social impact

The webinar will seek to inform those who are new to impact investing and be the first stage in the process of developing a community of those interested in supporting Catholic Impact Investing in the UK, Ireland and across Europe.

We are delighted to welcome the following speakers:

• Keynote Speaker: Lord Deben, Chair of UK’s Committee on Climate Change: Impact investing through a Catholic lens

• Dr. Sr. Gemma Simmonds CJ, Director of Religious Life Institute at University of Cambridge: A theological perspective on impact investing

• Neil Thorns, Director of Advocacy and Communications at CAFOD: How impact investing is enabling development outcomes in the global South

• Sr. Pat Daly OP, Former Executive Director of Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment: Case study of 16 US Dominican religious congregations & the Climate Solutions Fund

• Shaun Cooper, Head of Finance at Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood: Case study on beginning the impact investing journey

• Victoria Carrion, Director of Membership & Partnerships at the Catholic Impact Investing Collaborative

Catholic Impact Investing Collaborative (CIIC) is a network where individuals and institutions interested in Catholic Impact Investing can come together, share experiences, and build relationships based on their spiritual as well as financial commitment to impact investing. The Catholic Impact Investing Pledge, a formal commitment launched by CIIC in 2019, currently has 26 signatories, including nine groups based in the UK and Ireland.

The webinar is sponsored by Operation Noah, Global Catholic Climate Movement, CAFOD, Trocaire, Conference of Religious, Association of Provincial Bursars, National Justice & Peace Network, and Justice and Peace Scotland.

An overview of how Catholic organisations can divest from the fossil fuel industry and support a just recovery from Covid-19.

More than 190 Catholic organisations around the world, including the Dioceses of Arundel and Brighton, Lancaster and Middlesbrough, the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace and Caritas Internationalis have taken the step of divesting from fossil fuel companies in response to the climate emergency.

Join this interactive webinar to hear why the Vatican recommended divestment from fossil fuels in June 2020, as well as inspiring stories of how the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference, Jesuits in Britain and Sisters of St Joseph of Peace divested from fossil fuels.

We are delighted to welcome the following speakers:

• Keynote speaker:  Fr Augusto Zampini, Co-Secretary, Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

• Dr Lorna Gold, Vice Chair of the Global Catholic Climate Movement: How the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference divested from fossil fuels

• Stephen Power SJ, former Treasurer of Jesuits in Britain who manages the Jesuits' ethical investment strategy: The divestment journey of Jesuits in Britain

• Sr Susan Francois CSJP, Assistant Congregation Leader and Congregation Treasurer, Sisters of St Joseph of Peace: Our experience of divesting from fossil fuels

• James Buchanan, Bright Now Campaign Manager at Operation Noah on the key findings of the report Church investments in major oil companies: Paris compliant or Paris defiant?

The webinar will also offer an opportunity to find out more about how your Catholic religious order, diocese or other organisation can join the next global divestment announcement for faith institutions in November 2020.

The webinar is sponsored by: Operation Noah, the Global Catholic Climate Movement, CAFOD, Trocaire, Conference of Religious, Association of Provincial Bursars, National Justice & Peace Network and Justice and Peace Scotland.

An interactive webinar sharing key findings of the report: ‘Church investments in major oil companies: Paris compliant or Paris defiant?’ Operation NOAH is launching a new report, Church investments in major oil companies: Paris compliant or Paris defiant? The report shows the gap between the business plans of major oil companies and the Paris Agreement targets, and calls on Churches in the UK to urgently divest from fossil fuels to tackle the climate emergency.