FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
A NETWORK FOR THE FAITHS AND A BRIDGE TO
FAITH-CONSISTENT INVESTING
FaithInvest helps religious groups to invest in line with their values. We support the rapidly growing movement of faiths and faith-based asset owners actively using their investments to create a better world – for people and planet.
FaithInvest is an international, not-for-profit network serving religious groups and faith-based institutional investors. We support faith organisations seeking to invest in line with their values to achieve environmental and social impact.
The world's faiths have billions of dollars invested in global markets, across all asset classes. We empower religious asset owners to align their investments with their faith values, for the benefit of people and planet.
We do this by:
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Convening a vibrant NETWORK for faith-based investors
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Providing insightful TRAINING, education, exchange and collaboration
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Offering tailored, one-on-one ACCOMPANIMENT on the faith-consistent investing journey.
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Promotes faith-consistent, values-driven investing and investment transparency
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Empowers faiths to align their investments with their values
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Builds skills and capacity
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Serves as a bridge to faith-aligned and values-driven investing
What we don't do:
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We don’t get involved in decisions about how or where a faith group invests its money
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We don't provide investment advice or make investment decisions for faith-based asset owners
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We are not here to compete with, or take the place of, your existing investment advisors.
Instead, we seek to EMPOWER you to ensure your investment policies are fully ALIGNED with your faith values so that you can be certain that your money is working the way you want it to work in the world.
OUR MISSION
AND VISION
We exist to grow the scale and impact of faith-consistent investing (FCI) worldwide for the benefit of people and planet. We believe faith groups should be a powerhouse for ethical investing. Our vision is of a world in which faith groups invest positively in line with their values, motivated by their passionate conviction that doing so will achieve a just and sustainable world.
WHAT WE
OFFER
We provide a range of free-to-access services such as complimentary assessments of faith-based organisations' investment policies, a network of like-minded investors, and resources and guides on FCI. We also offer fee-based services such as training courses, one-on-one consultative support and more.
FAITH-CONSISTENT
INVESTING (FCI)
Faith-consistent investing (FCI) is about ensuring your investments reflect your faith values. It is about avoiding harm by not investing in areas where you have concerns, and it is also about seeking to achieve positive impact by investing in a way that reflects your organisation's beliefs, values and principles. Find out more about faith-consistent investing.
Our question to faith groups is: 'You're doing great things with what you get from the returns on your investments. But where you are putting your funds? The inexorable logic is that your values should affect everything you do – including where you invest your money in the first place.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT US
Josh Zinner
CEO, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility; at our Bold Plans conference
It's been a great conference. What's struck me most is the motivation and the consistency of values across the room. The table conversations have been great.
John Stevens
Trustee,
English Sangha Trust
We had to go on a journey, and FaithInvest's role in the journey was a really critical part, giving us perspective at all steps along the way.
Valerie Brown
Chair, Special Committee on the Ethics of Investment Practice, Church of Scotland
When we met with FaithInvest, we had a lightbulb moment. They were proposing a structure other churches had used... I thought we might have just cracked a way to work through this.
CONTACT US
We'd love to hear from you! Write to us at the address shown or use the contact form below.
FaithInvest
c/o Stone King LLP
Boundary House
91-93 Charterhouse St
London, EC1M 6HR, UK
+44 (0)117 214 1720
Registered charity: 1187015
Registered company limited by guarantee: 11862410
