Network of religious groups and faith-consistent investors | www.faithinvest.org | c/o Stone King LLP, Charterhouse Street, London, UK

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:

Convening a vibrant NETWORK for faith-based investors
Providing insightful TRAINING, education, exchange and collaboration
Offering tailored, one-on-one ACCOMPANIMENT on the faith-consistent investing journey.

Promotes faith-consistent, values-driven investing and investment transparency
Empowers faiths to align their investments with their values
Builds skills and capacity
Serves as a bridge to faith-aligned and values-driven investing

NB: We do not provide investment advice or make investment decisions for the faiths.

FAITHFUL FINANCE ONLINE TRAINING

This year we launched a live-taught, online training course to support faith organisations to go further in their faith-consistent investing journey. Faithful Finance: AlignIng Investments with Faith Values covers the foundational principles of faith-consistent investing over four 90-minute sessions. We've run two courses so far and we've been delighted by the response, as illustrated by the participant comments below. The latest course started on 29 October 2024. If you'd like to be alerted when we schedule the next one in 2025, or would like to find out more about our training, click below.

ALERT ME

FCI TRAINING

It has empowered me to embody the knowledge and own what we are about as a congregation.

I found all the inputs very enriching.

The whole area is not as daunting as I had imagined it to be, hence my shift in confidence.

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.

OUR MISSION
AND VISION

We exist to grow the scale and impact of faith-consistent investing worldwide by supporting faith groups to invest in line with their values – for the benefit of people and planet. Our vision is of a world in which faith groups, motivated by their passionate conviction that investing in line with their values will achieve a just and sustainable world, actively use their investments for the common good.

WHAT WE
OFFER

We have a range of free-to-access and paid-for services, including free assessments of investment policies for faith-based organisations and a network of like-minded investors. We also offer training courses, one-on-one consultative support and more. Contact us to see how we can help.

FAITH-CONSISTENT
INVESTING (FCI)

Faith-consistent investing (FCI) is about ensuring your investments reflect your faith values. It is about going further than avoiding harm through negative screening; it's also about investing positively in a way that reflects an organisation's beliefs, values and principles. We have resources and guides to help you!

8 hours ago

Working with your investment managers: new CIG resource

The UK-based Church Investors Group has published a new resource to support church investors in the process of working with their...

6 days ago

Mensuram Bonam summit marks major step forward for FCI in the Catholic Church

Catholic institutions have hundreds of millions of dollars to invest – but almost no investment options if they want to ensure their...

Nov 7

Solving the two-pocket problem: aligning values & investments

How do you motivate faith groups to actively drive impact through their investments? That was the question posed to FaithInvest's...

Nov 4

Survey finds 88% of Christians want investments to reflect values

Press release: 4 November 2024: A new survey has confirmed what FaithInvest already knew – that the vast majority of Christians who...

MORE NEWS

RESEARCH POSTS

Each week we post on topics of interest to faith-based asset owners.

Dave Zellner

9 hours ago

Finding common ground: role of government in supporting FCI

Last week, my fellow trustee Mike Even responded to my three-part series with his thought-provoking piece, A capitalist's view of FCI ....

Mike Even

6 days ago

A capitalist view of FCI: A guest post by FaithInvest co-founder Mike Even

Over the past few weeks, our Executive Chair Dave Zellner has written a series of articles demonstrating that investing along faith-based...

Steven Owen

Nov 5

SOCAP Global 2024 in San Francisco

Last week, SOCAP Global and the Sorenson Institute held their annual conference in San Francisco, at which I had the pleasure of...

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.

SUPPORT US

By donating to FaithInvest, your gift helps us develop the free-to-access tools, programmes and resources needed to support faith groups as across as wide a range of geographies and capacities as possible. We are very grateful for any support you can give us.

DONATE

Sincere thanks from everyone at FaithInvest!

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

info@faithinvest.org

+44 (0)117 214 1720

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