Impact Investing is Faith in Action
Answering the call to be part of the solution to our most urgent local and global challenges has never been more urgent. Impact investing offers faith institutions a powerful way to align their values with their investing practices to create a more just and sustainable world. Impact investing is practiced by many different faiths and traditions, all sharing a common purpose to create opportunity for communities and to protect the planet. Faith investors were among the first impact investors, and many continue to be at the vanguard.
In collaboration with a growing community of faith partners, we’re here to help faith institutions and their financial professionals understand impact investing – moving from the “why” to the “how” – wherever they may be on their journeys.
Please refer to our expanding set of resources below and connect with us at info@calvertimpact.org to learn more about our Faith Investor Program.
Our 2024 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, "Taking Action for Communities & Climate"
Calvert Impact's 2024 impact report, including new impact data, stories, and photos from their Community Investment Note portfolio.
Heeding the Call: Investing in Justice and a Livable Future
Faith-based asset owners are leading the way, not only for their peers, but also for secular values-based investors; demanding investment products and services to address urgent challenges.
Impact Measurement & Management Primer for Faith Investors
Calvert Impact Capital is excited to share our new publication: "An Impact Measurement & Management Primer for Faith Investors"
Faith Investor Profiles
Our ongoing Faith Investor Profiles series showcases impact investing journeys, gleans insights from leaders across faith communities, and inspires other faith investors to engage in impact investing.
Impact in Action: Faith Investor Profiles
Faith institutions, and their leaders, are among the true pioneers of impact investing.
Building an Impactful Faith Portfolio: A Foundational Guide to Impact Investing for Faith Institutions
The guide includes steps for those seeking to incorporate impact investments into a faith institution’s portfolio, including how to establish an Impact Strategy and incorporate into portfolio policies
Love Your Neighbor and Embrace the Stranger
When we look beyond the socially constructed and restrictive barriers of race, class, faith, and gender, we may at first see the stranger, then we recognize our neighbor, and verily, ourselves.
Advancing Faith Values Through Impact Investing
Calvert Impact Capital is delighted to share our new publication: “Advancing Faith Values Through Impact Investing: A Short Guide for Faith Investors and their Financial Professionals.”
American College: Faith and Impact Investing Webinar
More and more people are trying to align their investing and gift-giving with their personal values, and for many those values are rooted in faith
Pursuing Justice Through Faith-Based Impact Investing
For many of us who engage in impact investing, this verse from Deuteronomy 16:20 is a familiar one, our clarion call to pursue a path of justice and healing
Calvert Impact Capital Faith-Based Investor Program Overview
Calvert Impact Capital Faith-Based Investor Program Overview
Faith Investors: Begin Your Impact Investing Journey
Our faith offers us spiritual meaning a connection to community, and a responsibility for our planet and all its inhabitants
Faith Investor Profiles: Impact Investing Pioneers
Faith institutions, and their leaders, are among the true pioneers of impact investing. Over the decades, Calvert Impact Capital has had the privilege of partnering with faith institutions--including congregations, churches, healthcare systems, mutual funds--as they fulfill their traditions, serve our most vulnerable and disenfranchised communities with dignity, and create a more just and sustainable world through their investments.
Our ongoing Faith Investor Profiles series seeks to showcase these impact investing journeys, glean insights from leaders across faith communities, and inspire other faith investors to engage in impact investing.
We are pleased to feature profiles of the following faith organizations:
- Adrian Dominican Sisters – Portfolio Advisory Board
- American Home Baptist Mission Societies
- CommonSpirit Health
- Everence Financial and Praxis Mutual Funds
- Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
- Mercy Investment Services, Inc. and Mercy Partnership Fund
- Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Oblate International Pastoral Investment Trust
- United Church of Christ (UCC) Church Building & Loan Fund
We will continue to share new profiles highlighting how faith investors across denominations are investing for impact. If you would like to recommend an institutional faith investor to profile, please reach out.
Our Partners
We work in close collaboration with many partners also committed to educating faith investors about impact investing, including those listed below. Please consider these organizations as important resources as well:
Connect with Us
Since 1995, we have been working with faith investors and their advisors, across all faiths. We are here as a resource and welcome opportunities for conversation, collaboration, and partnership.
Please contact us at info@calvertimpact.org or 800.248.0337.
