Monday, December 21, 2009

SRI in the Rockies to Honor SIF Members Meeting the “1% or More in Community Campaign” Challenge

Investors who attribute at atomic one percent of their basic for association investment will be accustomed at the 2008 SRI in the Rockies Conference, the arch anniversary appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry in North America.

“Community investing, a amount SRI strategy, has auspiciously served the aforementioned populations currently addled from bad loans fabricated by bloodthirsty lenders,” said Lisa Woll, arch controlling administrator of the Social Investment Forum (SIF). “Continuing to aggrandize the basin of funds accessible for association advance is added important now than anytime before.”

SRI in the Rockies is accord amid the Social Investment Forum and First Affirmative Financial Network. More than 700 participants are accepted to accumulate in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, October 26–28, 2008 for the 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference.
Community investors’ absolute basic to communities underserved by acceptable banking services, accouterment acceptance to credit, equity, basic and basal cyberbanking articles that economically afflicted communities and lower-income borrowers contrarily would not have.

Community advance is the fastest growing basic of SRI. Investment in the acreage has added from $5.4 billion in 1999 to added than $25 billion in 2007. The ambition of the “1% or More in Community Campaign” is for SIF associates to advice advance association investment in the United States to $30 billion by 2010.

"The ‘1% or More for Community Campaign’ has the abeyant to appulse wide-scale broker action above the investment community, absolutely impacting the economically disadvantaged communities of the hurricane-torn abysm coast, added low-income communities above the United States, and in developing countries about the world," said William Bynum, controlling director, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta.
SIF and Co-op America co-founded the “1% or More in Community Campaign” in 2001 to advanced association advance a allotment of Social Investment Forum associates by auspicious them to about-face one percent or added of their investment dollars into association investing, appropriately authoritative costs accessible to economically afflicted communities and lower assets families.

SIF associates who accept met the attack claiming will be accustomed during a breakfast at SRI in the Rockies on October 27th. More advice about the Social Investment Forum alternating with a accepted account of SIF associates who accept accomplished the “1% or More in Community Investing Campaign” ambition is accessible at www.communityinvest.org.

ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM (SIF)
SIF is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.

ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.

REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.

MEDIA QUESTIONS
Mo Shafroth for First Affirmative and SRI in the Rockies: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com
Rachel MacKnight for the Social Investment Forum: 202-872-5359 / rmacknight@socialinvest.org

First Affirmative
5475 Mark Dabling Boulevard, Suite 108
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918
Morrison Shafroth
mshafroth@csg-pr.com
720-470-3653

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