An exciting transition at FaithInvest
We are delighted to announce that Dr Lorna Gold will be our new Chief Executive Officer from September 2023. She takes over from Martin...
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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 actively using their investments to create a better world – for people and planet.
FaithInvest is an international, not-for-profit network of religious groups and faith-based institutional investors. Our aim is to grow the scale and impact of faith-consistent, values-driven investing worldwide.
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 providing:
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a NETWORK for faith-based investors
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a SOURCE of education, exchange and collaboration
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a PLATFORM for discussing investment ideas, opportunities and concepts
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a VOICE for the faiths and values-driven investors.
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Promotes faith-consistent, values-based investing and investment transparency
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Empowers faiths to develop policies aligning their investments to their values
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Builds skills and capacity
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Serves as a bridge to faith-aligned and value-driven investments
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Engages the financial world about the faiths' investment needs
We do not make investment decisions or manage funds for the faiths.
*** BREAKING NEWS ***
AN EXCITING TRANSITION AT FAITHINVEST
We are delighted to announce that Dr Lorna Gold will be our new Chief Executive Officer from September 2023. She takes over from Martin Palmer who remains as FaithInvest’s Founding President.
Dr Lorna Gold is currently FaithInvest’s Director of Movement Building. She has more than two decades of experience of international development and engaging the faiths on climate and financial justice.
She is a leading voice on faith-consistent investing in the Catholic Church and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Laudato Si’ Movement, a global grassroots Catholic environmental network, bringing together 900 organisations around the world.
Dr Gold says: ‘It is a great honour to be taking over the leadership of FaithInvest at a pivotal time in both the faith-consistent investing movement and global efforts to address the urgent climate and environmental crises.'
Martin Palmer said: ‘Having worked with Lorna for the last three years, we are thrilled that she has agreed to serve as our next CEO. While I am stepping back from the CEO role (as planned), I am very much looking forward to continuing to work closely with the team as we grow the faith-consistent investing movement.'
OUR MISSION
We support faiths to live their values in the way they use their finances and investments. Our work builds on the rich tradition and commitment of the major faiths to core values and principles such as human rights, environmental protection, social justice, and care of the poor.
Our vision is of a world in which faith groups and people of faith – 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 benefit of people and planet.
Most faiths interpret this to mean initiatives that address the climate crisis, support the environment, promote social justice, tackle global poverty and further the aims of the Sustainable Development Goals – all of which most major faiths have clearly stated goals.
A NATURAL POWERHOUSE
The faiths are a natural powerhouse for ethical, faith-based and impact investing that contributes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) or socially responsible investing (SRI). Yet for many faiths, this is currently more of a potential than a reality.
Faith beliefs naturally align with ethical, faith-based and impact investing; they are deeply and strongly motivated. They represent a large pool of investable assets as well as vast ownership of property and land. Together, the faiths represent a significant investment bloc in the financial world.
As investors, the faiths are good at knowing what they don’t want to invest in. Now it is time for faiths to say what they do want to invest in, for a better future for people and planet.
DEVELOP FCI GUIDELINES
Developing faith-consistent investment guidelines is a crucial step for faith groups seeking to align their investments with their values. Our resources can help you, such as our guide to developing your own FCI guidelines and more.
MULTI-FAITH JUST TRANSITION FUND
FaithInvest and Climate Investment Funds – one of the largest active climate finance mechanisms in the world – are developing a new multi-faith fund that will enable faith groups to invest in large-scale, climate-smart projects to support a just transition.
The Multi-faith Just Transition Fund (MJTF) will be a first-of-its-kind, globally accessible financing vehicle that brings faith-based institutional asset owners of all backgrounds and religious traditions together with sovereign countries and regional development banks to finance at-scale, climate-smart investments underpinned by social inclusion and just transition outcomes in primarily emerging and developing economies.
FaithInvest and CIF have been working on the exploratory phase of the MJTF for the past two years. We are now moving to the development phase.
Find out what FaithInvest CEO Martin Palmer and CIF CEO Mafalda Duarte said about why the fund is needed – and its potential impact – during the launch at COP 27 in these five-minute videos, or read our press release.
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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
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Registered charity: 1187015
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Registered company limited by guarantee:
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