Links to useful organisations and initiatives
In this section:
Project partners
Responsible Investment Networks and Initiatives
Responsible Investment and Corporate Social
Responsibility websites
Charity networks and organisations
Faith-based investing
Finance and Investment
Other
Project Partners
EIRIS Foundation
The EIRIS Foundation is a charity that supports ethical investment. It
provides other charities with information and advice to enable them to
choose investments which do not conflict with their work. Ethical Investment
Research Services (EIRIS) Ltd is the Foundation’s wholly-owned subsidiary.
EIRIS ltd is the leading provider of independent research into the environmental,
social, governance and ethical performance of companies.
Visit website: www.eiris.org
UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF)
UKSIF is the UK's membership network for sustainable and responsible financial
services. UKSIF promotes responsible investment and other forms of finance
that support sustainable economic development, enhance quality of life
and safeguard the environment. It also seeks to ensure that individual and
institutional investors can reflect their values in their investments.
Visit website: www.uksif.org
Responsible Investment Networks and Initiatives
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
The CDP provides a secretariat for the world's largest institutional investor
collaboration on the business implications of climate change. Institutional
investors collaborate to collectively sign a single global request for
disclosure of information on Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Visit website: www.cdproject.net
European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif)
Eurosif is a pan-European group whose mission is to Address Sustainability
through Financial Markets. Current member affiliates of Eurosif include
pension funds, financial service providers, academic institutes, research
associations and NGO's. The association is a not-for-profit entity that
represents assets totalling over €600bn through its affiliate membership.
Visit website: www.eurosif.org
FairPensions
FairPensions gives a voice to people who want their pension funds to be
more ethical. It challenges pension funds to hold companies to account
and show how responsible investment can generate better returns
Visit website: www.fairpensions.org.uk
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
The Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) vision is that reporting
on economic, environmental, and social performance by all organizations
becomes as routine and comparable as financial reporting. GRI accomplishes
this vision by developing, continually improving, and building capacity
around the use of its Sustainability Reporting Framework.
Visit website: www.globalreporting.org
Institutional Investor’s Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
The IIGCC is a forum for collaboration between pension funds and other
institutional investors on issues related to climate change. The IIGCC
seeks to promote better understanding of the implications of climate
change amongst its members and other institutional investors, and to
encourage companies and markets in which IIGCC members invest to address
any material risks and opportunities to their businesses associated with
climate change and a shift to a lower carbon economy.
Visit website: www.iigcc.org
International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
The ICGN exists to provide an investor-led network for the exchange of
views and information about corporate governance issues internationally;
to examine corporate governance principles and practices; and to develop
and encourage adherence to corporate governance standards and guidelines
Visit website: www.icgn.org
Principles for Responsible Investment
The Principles for Responsible Investment is a UN initiative, which sets
out a voluntary framework for the incorporation of environmental, social
and corporate governance (ESG) issues into the mainstream investment
process.
Visit website: www.unpri.org
Responsible Endowments Coalition
The Responsible Endowments Coalition is a US nonprofit organisation that works to foster social and environmental change through university endowments. Its website includes details of student campaigns, responsible investment strategies and the history of the responsible investment movement.
Visit website: www.endowmentethics.org
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
UNEP FI is a global partnership between the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) and the private financial sector. UNEP FI works closely
with over 160 financial institutions who are signatories to the UNEP
FI Statements, and a range of partner organisations to develop and promote
linkages between the environment, sustainability and financial performance.
Through regional activities, a comprehensive work programme, training
programmes and research, UNEP FI carries out its mission to identify,
promote, and realise the adoption of best environmental and sustainability
practice at all levels of financial institution operations.
Visit website: www.unepfi.org
Responsible Investment websites
CSRwire.com
CSRwire provides news, information and reports on corporate social responsibility
and sustainability. CSRwire content covers issues of Diversity, Philanthropy,
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Environment, Human Rights, Workplace
Issues, Business Ethics, Community Development and Corporate Governance.
Visit website: www.csrwire.com
Socialfunds.com
This website features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds,
community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily
social investment news.
Visit website: www.socialfunds.com
SRIstudies.org
This website provides resources for investment professionals, academics,
and other people interested in the quantitative aspects of socially responsible
investing (SRI). It is a project of the Moskowitz Research Program, which
is affiliated with the Center for Responsible Business at the University
of California.
Visit website: www.sristudies.org
Charity networks and organisations
Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
ACF is the UK wide support organisation for grant-making trusts and foundations
of all types. ACF helps trusts to use their time and funds in the most
effective way.
Visit website: www.acf.org.uk
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
CAF works to raise the profile of giving, lobby for tax breaks and provide
a broad suite of services to charities and their supporters. CAF offers
banking, financial and training services to charities to make donations
go further.
Visit website: www.cafonline.org
Charity Commission
The Charity Commission is established by law as the regulator and registrar
for charities in England and Wales. Its aim is to provide the best possible
regulation of charities in England and Wales in order to increase charities'
effectiveness and public confidence and trust.
Visit website: www.charity-commission.gov.uk
European Foundation Centre (EFC)
The EFC is an independent international association for independent funders
active in and with Europe. Foundations and corporate citizens from all
over Europe and the world are members and partners of the EFC, which
promotes and underpins their work. The EFC is dedicated to strengthening
organised philanthropy, which is embedded in and supports civil society,
in Europe and internationally.
Visit website: www.efc.be
ImpACT coalition
The ImpACT coalition works to promote better public understanding of how charities work and the benefits they bring to society. It is a coalition of a wide range of charities and sector bodies who are working together to improve Accountability, Clarity and Transparency (ImpACT).
Visit website: www.impactcoalition.org.uk
National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
The NCVO is the umbrella body for the voluntary sector in England. It works
to support the voluntary sector and to create an environment in which
voluntary organisations can flourish. Its work includes the Sustainable
Funding Project, which encourages and enables voluntary and community
organisations to explore and exploit a full range of funding and financing
options to develop a sustainable funding mix.
Visit website: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA)
The NICVA is the umbrella body for voluntary and community organisations
in Northern Ireland. Its mission is to achieve progressive social change
by tackling disadvantage through voluntary action and community development.
Visit website: www.nicva.org
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)
OSCR is the independent regulator and registrar of Scottish Charities.
Its vision is for a flourishing charity sector in which the public has
confidence, underpinned by OSCR's effective delivery of its regulatory
role.
Visit website: www.oscr.org.uk
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)
The SCVO is the national body representing the voluntary sector in Scotland.
SCVO seeks to advance the values and shared interests of the voluntary
sector by fostering co-operation, promoting best practice and delivering
sustainable services.
Visit website: www.scvo.org.uk
Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
WCVA represents, supports and campaigns for volunteers, voluntary organisations
and communities in Wales.
Visit website: www.wcva.org.uk
Faith-based investing
3iG – International Inter-faith Investors Group
3iG is a non-profit, multi-faith philanthropic foundation. Its mission
is to contribute to a just and sustainable society through responsible
investment in a spirit of genuine interfaith dialogue and co-operation.
Visit website: www.3ignet.org
Christian Ethical Investment Group (CEIG)
CEIG is committed to promoting debate and the development of vigorous ethical
investment policies within all Christian Churches.
Visit website: www.ceig.org
Church Investors Group (CIG)
CIG is a group of investors connected with the Churches of Britain and Ireland. Its purpose is:
- to encourage the formulation of investment policies based on Christian ethical principles
- to assist each other in putting such policies into practice
- to encourage responsible business practices through engagement with company managements
- to share information and views on ethical matters related to investment
Visit website: www.churchinvestorsgroup.org.uk
Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR)
ECCR is an ecumenical organisation and it includes within its membership representatives of many mainstream Christian denominations, corporate agencies of the churches, religious communities and orders, and many interested individuals. ECCR seeks to promote corporate responsibility in large companies and in the churches as a specific part of the churches' Kingdom orientated mission.
Visit website: www.eccr.org.uk
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
ICCR's membership is an association of 275 faith- based institutional investors,
including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds,
endowments, colleges, and unions. ICCR and its members press companies
to be socially and environmentally responsible. Each year ICCR- member
religious institutional investors sponsor over 200 shareholder resolutions
on major social and environmental issues.
Visit website: www.iccr.org
Finance and Investment
Financial Services Authority (FSA)
The FSA is an independent watchdog set up by the Government to regulate
financial services and protect consumer rights.
Visit website: www.fsa.gov.uk
Investment Management Association (IMA)
The IMA is the UK trade body for the professional investment management
industry.
Visit website: www.investmentuk.org
Other
Blended Value
This website explores the concept of Blended Value – which states
that all organisations, whether for-profit or not, create value that consists
of economic, social and environmental value components—and that investors
(whether market-rate, charitable or some mix of the two) simultaneously
generate all three forms of value through providing capital to organizations.
Visit website: www.blendedvalue.org
FSG Social Impact Advisors
FSG Social Impact Advisors is a non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating
social progress by advancing the practice of philanthropy and corporate
social responsibility through advice, ideas and action.
Visit website: www.fsg-impact.org
UKSIF member directory
Visit website: www.uksif.org/members
