Green Strategies to Fight Poverty™Poverty and the Environment: Why Now?As the human costs of climate change escalate, we face intensifying droughts, heat waves, water shortages, crop failures, and the proliferation of diseases. Environmental calamities disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities by damaging areas where poor families work and live. Global trends of population growth, urbanization, and industrialization have catapulted the demand for energy and clean water to levels never seen before, and the demand for both of these necessities is projected to outpace supply. Investors Asked. We Listened.Calvert Foundation is launching an exciting new opportunity for you to make a difference: environmentally sustainable investments with ties to poverty alleviation. This new sector of our portfolio – “Green Strategies to Fight Poverty” – has been long awaited by investors and donors, who have for years indicated interest in an investment that addresses both environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation. Get Started TodayThis initiative is a special program of the Community Investment Note, yet designating your investment as part of Green Strategies to Fight Poverty channels your investment dollars specifically to groups in this sector of our portfolio. There are three options for investing. Call us at 800.248.0337 with any questions! |
News & Press Releases
1.12.2012 Dow Jones Adviser
Wealthy Interested in Impact Investing1.5.2012 The Giving Show
CEO Lisa Hall was on "The Giving Show" with Michael Chatman on Thursday, January 5, at 11:30 am EST. Listen here!11.28.2011 Global Impact Investing Network
Improving Livelihoods, Removing Barriers: Investing for Impact in Mtanga Farms11.11.2011 Pocono Record
Make Some of Your Dollars Make a Difference11.8.2011 Innovators in Action
Lisa Hall: Ending Poverty Through Investment08.2011 Nomad Editions Sustainable Money
Deep Impact Investing
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