Showing posts with label Social Justice Investing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Justice Investing. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2020

My Big Idea on Reducing Inequality through MarginShare

MARGIN SHARE

 

Marginal Cost Inclusivity as a Possible Answer to Inequality?


Executive Summary

 

We introduce MARGINSHARE, a change in the economy that may substantially lift disposable incomes of approximately 60 million low wage workers in a self-sustaining  manner. The

Black Lives Have Always Mattered at Calvert

               Actions taken on the BLM issue over the decades when I was Calvert chair.  Walking the talk. 

 

1.      Calvert Social Investment Fund was the first mutual fund, and one of the first institutional investors, to divest from South Africa over its moral objections to apartheid.  About 20 years later, Calvert sponsored the first venture fund to go into South Africa post-apartheid. 

Monday, July 6, 2020

Illumen Capital and Racial Bias

Given the current times and BLM, I am happy to share and promote an investment I made into Illumen Capital, which is a fund of funds that invests in venture funds that make a commitment to the racial bias issue of inclusivity.  I worked with the founder, Daryn Dodson, at Calvert where he managed our venture Special Equities portfolio.  Great guy, African American, Stanford Business School.  I serve on his