Impact Investing
Researchers at Croatan Institute are developing new ways to conceptualize social and environmental impact investing not as a single investment "asset class," but rather as an investment approach that can extend across all asset classes in a diversified portfolio. The Institute is also working closely with practitioners in the field to explore impact investment opportunities in underserved communities and to create new frameworks for understanding the nature of social and environmental impact in specific geographies, sectors, and asset classes.
Projects
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REEFS is an initiative coordinated by Croatan Institute with a growing group of advisers and partners seeking to address structural racism within finance and to integrate racial equity as an explicit factor of analysis and engagement within total portfolio approaches to investing for social impact.
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Teaching individuals how to align your investment portfolio with your values for maximum positive impact.
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Developing educational fossil-free portfolios using a total portfolio approach to investing in climate solutions.
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Developing resources for hospitals to create sustainable returns and strong communities through place-based investment.
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Providing technical assistance, research, and capacity building to attract sustainable investment into rural value chains.
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Developing a new reporting framework to evaluate the impact of shareholder engagement in public equity investing.
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Identifying impact investment opportunities to support high-performing, affordable housing in rural Appalachian communities.
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Tracking SRI trends, based on intensive research, surveying, and analysis of institutional investors and money managers across all asset classes.
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Identifying and seizing opportunities for investor engagement on social and environmental issues across asset classes.
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Offering an interactive virtual training, technical assistance, and capacity building to nonprofits, small businesses, and other organizations so that they can design, launch, and run a crowdfunding campaign to support their work.
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Holding institutional investors accountable for land-grabbing in international agricultural holdings.
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Supporting foundations that are multiplying their impact through investment assets.
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Helping investors select impact strategies and adopt core metric sets to track performance toward their goals.
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