
Event: Learn About Community Impact Notes
Join us for a half-hour call to learn about Calvert Impact Capital's Community Impact Notes program and highlights from their 2023 Impact Report.
Join us for a half-hour call to learn about Calvert Impact Capital's Community Impact Notes program and highlights from their 2023 Impact Report.
This week Newground Social Investment joined a coalition of 45 institutional investors, fiduciaries, faith groups, and labor unions to strongly endorse a set of proposed revisions to the SEC’s rules that govern the shareholder proposal process.
In a victory for responsible investing, a federal judge denied a legal challenge by Republican-led states attempting to strike down a Department of Labor (DOL) rule on ESG investing in retirement plans.
A Newground "Learning Brief" on Private Impact Investing, w/ Bruce Herbert hosting presenter Josh Hile of Citizen Mint (formerly the Director of Investment Strategy & Research for Laird Norton Wealth Management).
Whenever money moves it has an impact. To make the impact of your wealth more humane, fair, and sustainable, as an investor you need to know these 5 things.
Actor / Activist Scottie Thompson urges Chevron shareholders to vote FOR a proposal that will benefit shareholders, help indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest, and curb climate change pollution.
Newground joined a broad coalition of financial reform, labor, democracy, and environmental justice organizations in support of the new Minnesota Climate Innovation Finance Authority (MNCIFA) – an innovative state-run “green bank” that could become a national model for how to finance the critical transition to a clean energy economy.
We've fielded many questions about the implications of Washington State's new long-term capital gains tax – which was ruled constitutional by the state supreme court on March 24, 2023. In response, we've posted below a helpful FAQ put together by the WA State Department of Revenue that covers the most pressing questions in detail.
Whenever money moves it has an impact. To make the impact of your wealth more humane, fair, and sustainable, as an investor you need to know these 5 things.
What investors need to know: WA State Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of a long-term capital gains tax – a win long sought by progressive tax policy advocates.
Biden's 1st veto defends ESG investing – which protects capitalism, leads to better outcomes, and humanizes wealth in pursuit of shared prosperity.
Lucy Lawless urges Chevron stockholders to vote FOR Proposal #10 on the 2022 proxy – because it will help indigenous people in the Amazonian rainforest of Ecuador, clean up devastating pollution, and prevent future human rights abuses.
With a ruling against Shell & majority votes against Exxon & Chevron, May 26th was a really big (bad) day for Big Oil.
Actress Susan Sarandon addresses two shareholder proposals up for a vote at Chevron that address Climate Change, Rainforest Destruction in Ecuador, and the Company's support of a Genocidal Military Government in Myanmar.
Van Jones – As I survey the landscape the morning after, and as millions of votes are still being counted, I see 5 points of optimism.
There’s no future in believing there’s no future – we’re not booster rockets to be spent, but command modules moving ahead toward our own and society’s better outcomes.
Shareholders challenge Nike's use of Dark Money spending. In our 15+ year experience, America's least transparent disclosure policies.
Full text of the shareholder proposal on disclosure of political spending, filed by Newground Social Investment on April 11, 2020 for presentation at the 2020 annual meeting of Nike ($NKE) on September 17 in Beaverton, Oregon.
Strongly criticizing the proposed rule change, Newground Chief Executive Bruce Herbert said: "The DOL has erred considerably in proposing this Rule. Not only does the Proposed Rule appear to be politically motivated, it is deeply flawed."
The US response to Coronavirus is uneven, so expect more stock market volatility ahead. Expect a quick down, followed by a quick partial recovery, then an uncertain path to eventual full recovery.