Money With a Mission

SLOW MONEY – South Carolina has started organizing to have a ‘Slow Money’ chapter established, and has it’s next meeting on May 22 @ 5:30 p.m. at Jericho Advisors.  Given the strong entrepreneurial environment in the area, and the strong presence of ‘LowCountry Local First‘, a BALLE chapter, ‘Slow Money’ is expected to be very [...]

NEWS FLASH – NY Pension Fund managers urge all shareholders to vote against the re-election of 5 Wal-Mart directors, due to concern about their alleged roles in ‘acceptable bribery’ probe going on in Mexico. We recently participated in a shareholder action with IBM. Read more about it here. 

Calvert community investment notes are helping grow the Grameen America work to empower low-income entrepreneurs.  Over 8000 micro loans have already been made in NYC and Omaha, NE. If you want to learn more about how you can put your money to work supporting getting people out of poverty give us a call or check [...]

MEDIA ADVISORY: For Immediate Release CONTACT: Greg Garvan – Garvan@NaturalInvesting.com – 843-633-1067 More information at www.MoneyWithAMission.com or www.NaturalInvestments.com Local company recognized in First ‘Best for the World’ List March 12, 2012: Charleston, SC Natural Investments has been recognized as ‘Best for the World’ in a list of U.S. businesses with less than 10 employees creating [...]

We are proud to be registered with Natural Investments, LLC and First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC both of  whom are registered B Corporations. Using money to benefits others is at the core of who we are as people, and we want that reflected in our business life as well. If you missed it on the [...]

Many of our clients are concerned about the huge growth of Genetically Modified food in our society. There are many concerns about food quality, the effect on the human body, and what the long term effects of this food may be. Even for those who are concerned and want to make a conscious choice it [...]

The ’2012 State of Green Business Report’ is out and it is sobering.  Written by Joel Makower, a leading green business personality, it reports that in the 20 areas that they regularly check- e-waste recycling,energy efficiency, toxic emissions, commuting, etc. – many are flat or have even gotten worse. One area- green power use- has [...]

As we approach Martin Luther King Jr day we are reminded of the great sacrifices that have been made in the name of equality, as well as the distance we still have to go. While a majority of the S&P 500 companies now offer same sex/ partner benefits, there are still many corporations that don’t yet [...]

Yesterday NPR’s Marketplace did an interesting story on the Corporate Sustainability Officer at UPS. As we get close to the holidays and the lines at the post office and shipping stores get long it’s important to think about the impact that has on the planet. The story is transcribed but you can also listen to [...]

After reading about Lowe’s decision to pull advertising from a TV show they deemed possible offensive (Read the article here) Greg felt compelled to write the following response: Since ” we” have decided that corporations are people, I’m not really feeling the love for this person named Lowe’s this week. I personally will not be [...]