News by subject: SRI

Faced with profound market change, both current and contemplated, major institutional investors around the world are taking concerted action to better position their portfolios for the future?from increasing...

In the wake of numerous bank closures, Aspen Alpha Advisors (AAA) encourages investors to look to the life settlements space to offer some peace of mind for a portion of their portfolio. Recent events at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have...

Natelli Communities, a developer of master planned communities in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the country, has created a new fund at the Community Foundation to ensure that its charitable dollars impact Frederick County's most pressing...

Students in kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to apply for athletic and sports camp scholarships from March 15 ? April 15. These financial aid scholarships help cover the cost of attending spring and summer 2023 athletic and sports...

Vancouver-based Lucent BioSciences Inc. (Lucent Bio), an agritech company dedicated to delivering crop nutrition that improves yields and soil health while sequestering carbon, has won the prestigious THRIVE | Shell Climate...

Timed to its fifth anniversary, the Tony Award-winning, ACLU/NYCLU-honored, and Anthem Award-winning entertainment company Level Forward ? a film, theater, and television...

Woodlawn Central (WC), an 8-acre, $895 million mixed-use megadevelopment designed to be a catalyst for urban regeneration in Woodlawn, has hired Transwestern Real Estate Services as its commercial real estate services provider. With a diverse,...

The Community Foundation of Frederick County's online scholarship application for the 2023-2024 academic year is open March 1-31, 2023. For the eighth consecutive year, more than $1 million in scholarship funds are available to students pursuing...

One United Properties (BVB: ONE), the leading Romanian green developer of residential, mixed-use and office real estate, posts a consolidated turnover of 235.4 million euros in 2022, a 4% increase compared to 2021. The gross profit reached 116.2...

One United Properties (BVB: ONE), the leading Romanian green developer of residential, mixed-use and office real estate, posts a consolidated turnover of 235.4 million euros in 2022, a 4% increase compared to 2021. The gross profit reached 116.2...

EMURGO Group Pte. Ltd. ("EMURGO") - The official commercial arm and a founding member of the Cardano blockchain, EMURGO, and its regional entity, EMURGO Middle East & Africa ("EMURGO MEA"), today announced its strategic investment and partnership...

Dream Exchange Founder and CEO, Joe Cecala, joined over 50 other CEOs and business experts who gathered in Washington, DC on Wednesday, February 22nd for the Black Business Policy Conference. The annual conference, co-sponsored by the National...

NIO Capital officially launched our ESG Initiative "Mission Blue" in February 2023. The first offsite event "Ocean Plogging", a public action for beach clean-up, took place in Sanya, Hainan province, in cooperation with Blue Ribbon Ocean Conservation...

The Women's Giving Circle of Frederick County will be accepting grant applications for its 2023 grant cycle from Feb. 15 through March 15 with up to $270,000 available from The Women's Giving Circle of Frederick County Fund. The fund is one of more...

The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) announced renewed support from Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP) for the CDP Midwest Early Recovery Fund (ERF). Too often, communities struggle to address the needs of those most vulnerable to the...

The Friends of A.L.I.C.E. Scholarship Fund has been established with The Community Foundation of Frederick County and becomes one of its more than 770 component charitable funds. John and Mary Ellen Menke created The Friends of A.L.I.C.E. Scholarship...

The Front Line Foundation (TFLF) announced today that it has partnered with two White Bear Lake McDonald's restaurants to further support the Beyond the Call of Duty Fund to assist White Bear Lake Police Officer Ryan Sheak, who was shot multiple...

Lamda Development has broken ground in Athens with piling work now underway at the iconic The Riviera Tower, Greece's tallest building and first ever skyscraper, set to complete by March 2026. The 200-metre Riviera Tower is just one highlight of The...

Bank Leumi and the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced today that they have signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Under the agreement, the EIB will provide a EUR 500 million credit line to Bank Leumi. This will be used to provide credit on...

TONOMUS -- the cognitive multinational conglomerate and the first company to be established as a...

The Mae Retha M. Rippeon and Vernon R. Rippeon Scholarship Fund has been established with The Community Foundation of Frederick County and becomes one of its more than 770 component charitable funds. The fund has been created by Mr. Rippeon in memory...

HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and nationally recognized impact investor, is proud to announce the launch of its Employee Assistance Fund in partnership with Canary, a technology platform designed to provide individuals with...

The Front Line Foundation (TFLF) announced today that it has created a Beyond the Call of Duty Fund to support White Bear Lake Police Officer Ryan Sheak who was shot multiple times while on duty on January 24. Sheak, a board member of The Front Line...

Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable Don McMorris, Saskatchewan's Minister of Government Relations, announced more than $19.7 million in joint funding for 25...

The Front Line Foundation (TFLF) announced, today that it has been once again selected to participate in the Minnesota Wild's annual Hometown Heroes Series game on Tuesday, February 21, when the Wild host the Los Angeles Kings. The Wild's Hometown...

The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF), a donor collaborative committed to creating and supporting public goods that are critical to the continued growth and fidelity of the impact investing market, today announced that it will award...

As part of its goal to make homes ? and hometowns ? better for all, Lowe's today announced it is accepting nominations for the second year of Lowe's Hometowns, a five-year, $100 million impact program and the company's largest-ever commitment of its...

Across the country, governments, police, lawyers, judges and community groups are working in close partnership with communities and families to prevent youth involvement in the criminal justice system and to ensure a fair and effective youth justice...

The Winter 2023 issue of Evidence Matters: Transforming Knowledge into Housing and Community Development Policy, which focuses on the role and influence of institutional investors in the housing market, is now available. This issue highlights the...

Today, the Honourable Mona Fortier, President of the Treasury Board and Member of Parliament for Ottawa?Vanier, and His Worship Mark Sutcliffe, Mayor of the City of Ottawa, announced $350 million in federal funding to contribute towards the purchase...

Walden University, a pioneer in flexible learning, announces a new pricing model structure, the Believe and Achieve Scholarship,tm to help students accomplish their educational goals by lessening the financial burden of tuition. The Believe and...

The pandemic has shown how important it is to ensure health care professionals have access to the proper tools and solutions to face all kinds of medical challenges and emergencies. That is why the Government of Canada continues to invest in the...

Unicorn Hunters, the groundbreaking series that connects entrepreneurs seeking funding with millions of potential investors around the world, announced it is now airing on Jovem Pan News - TV station- and Panflix- OTT- of Brazil's leading media...

The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Karina Gould, will be in Ajax to announce funding for projects pertaining to social inclusion and well-being of vulnerable children and youth through the Social Development Partnership...

The Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Karina Gould, will be in Ajax to announce funding for projects pertaining to social inclusion and well-being of vulnerable children and youth through the Social Development Partnership...

Gryphon Online Safety, Inc., the leading family first cybersecurity solution that makes it easy to protect the connected home with machine learning, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on WeFunder. Gryphon plans to use the funds from the...

Italpreziosi, one of the leading international companies in the production, trading of precious metals, bullion and investment gold, announces that Ivana Ciabatti, CEO and President of the Company, as well as a member of Women in Mining and WiM100...

Invescap, a private lending and investment firm led by Marc-André Pépin, announced the expansion of its services, products, and partnerships for the coming year. Extending their distribution capabilities on a global scale, Switzerland-based Invescap...

Save®, a fintech company that helps people earn higher yields on their spending and savings, announced today that it has added a new Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) portfolio that provides a yield from, amongst other ETFs, the iShares ESG...

Courchesne Larose Ltd. ("Courchesne Larose Group"), a leader in the Canadian fresh fruit and vegetable industry, is proud to announce a significant investment in its share capital by Sagard Private Equity Canada ("Sagard PE"), Sagard's Canadian...

African Agriculture (AAGR), a Delaware domiciled USA company, which operates agricultural projects in Africa, has agreed to a public-private partnership with the Government of Mauritania and the communities of Boghé, (18 agricultural cooperative...

Root Capital and Keurig Dr Pepper today announced the launch of the Indonesia Coffee Enterprise Resilience Initiative (Resilient Coffee), a collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).  ...

The National Energy Improvement Fund, LLC (NEIF) www.neifund.org, a Certified B-Corptm energy efficiency and resilience improvement lender, has launched the...

Danone North America, the purpose-driven food and beverage leader, is proud to announce that for the 11th year in a row, it will award two graduate students $25,000 each for conducting research to further study the role of the gut microbiome,...

Barnstorm Agtech Inc., a startup agriculture robotics company, announced the successful close of their equity capital through Harvest Returns' investment platform. The raise, totaling $217,500, will help the company in their mission to transform the...

Akamai Technologies, Inc. ,  the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announces that the company is included in the 2022 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) and the FTSE4Good Index. Indexes such as these offer investors a way...

At COP15, KPMG in Canada is pleased to announce a $500,000 investment in pro bono professional services to support projects led by Indigenous organizations that will have an impact on the protection of nature and biodiversity....

Atlas Water & Electric, an LA-based renewable energy provider, today announced that it has engaged Solomon Gideon to secure funding for the development of a large-scale deployment of the Atmospheric Wind Extractor. The funding will be used to build...

The Kay F. and Douglas K. Sheiss Fund has been established with The Community Foundation of Frederick County and becomes one of its more than 770 component charitable funds. Kay Sheiss' support of the Community Foundation goes back many years. She...

Rebound Plastic Exchange, a global B2B digital trading platform for recycled plastics, is ready to support Mexico fulfill its 2030 recycled plastics targets. More than 44 million tons of waste are generated in Mexico annually, with pending...