by Ellen Remmer | 9.15.2021
Yes, September 15th is now National Invest for Better Day and will have that honor for the next 10 years. We are celebrating the day by sharing some big news and inviting you to celebrate with us.
On September 30th, we will officially launch the NEW Invest for Better. What’s new? Lots! Join us to find out.
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by Ellen Remmer | 11.24.21
Invest for Better Co-Founder Ellen Remmer reflects on the impact of Giving Tuesday, and what it means today. Introduced in 2012, Giving Tuesday was a brilliant way to encourage philanthropic gifts. However it is only 1 of 365 days, and only a small percentage of your overall portfolio. What can we do to go beyond Giving Tuesday?
by Farnoosh Torabi | 7.28.2
Guest Janine Firpo brings advice on how to create a values-driven investment strategy. She is a seasoned values-aligned investor and social innovator, with a long history of working at the intersection of women and their money. Her book, Activate Your Money: Invest to Grow Your Wealth and Build a Better World, was a collaborative effort with almost 150 women.
by R. Paul Herman | 5.20.21
Reading Activate Your Money will educate, engage, and empower, whether you’re putting a toe in the water, running a head-to-head portfolio, or diving into the deep end of a truly focused portfolio. Although the book is written for women, anyone interested in this topic will benefit from reading this book.
by KTLA Morning News, Los Angeles | 5.11.2021
Author and financial expert, Janine Firpo, joined the KTLA 5 News team on the morning that her book, Activate Your Money, launched to share tips for how women can start building their wealth.
by Suzanne Biegel | 5.06.2021
The books included in Suzanne’s list tackle gender-smart investing from different perspectives. She views them as great resources for women to share with friends, colleagues, and clients. They can also be used to deepen your own thinking, or to start you on your gender-smart investment journey.
Invest for Better and Janine Firpo featured on the Big Girl Money Podcast
Looking for a playful take on investing basics? IFB collaborator Janine Firpo answers (no-holds-barred!) questions for the Big Girl Money Podcast on their recent Investing 101-Fun with Your Finances podcast episode. Learn about the Big Girl Money Investment Circle (using the Invest for Better Circle approach) led by Wendy Bohling from our latest Leader Cohort.
As part of Thrive Global’s series on “Why We Need More Women Founders,” Jerome interviewed Janine Firpo, who asserted that one of the reasons only a limited amount of money is not flowing to female entrepreneurs is not because there are not enough of them. Rather the challenge has more to do with the bias in the existing structure, as well as the need for more women to engage as investors in private businesses.
Leveraging the Unique Power of Women’s Collective Giving
My journey to impact investing was a long and winding road. Way too long and winding! It wasn’t from lack of interest or effort. But because I had no support – and in some cases deep resistance – from my financial advisors, family, and peers, it took A LOT of effort, and ultimately, acts of defiance to make it happen.
While the environment for impact investing has improved quite a bit since those days, I still hear some version of this story from women every week: yes, they are interested in values-aligned investing, and yes, they are having trouble translating that interest into action because (1) they don’t have support, (2) they don’t know how to get started, and/or (3) they don’t have the time.
It was the hook that drew me into the arena of impact investing. I first heard about the concept of gender-lens investing from the innovative people at Criterion Institute 10 years ago. Immediately, I thought, “this is for me.”
From there, I became a donor and a cheerleader for Criterion Institute and their cause of creating a new investing viewfinder that would lift up women, and improve the world…
Ellen Remmer is on a new philanthropic adventure and she’s hoping other women will join her.
Remmer, a longtime leader in donor education and advising at The Philanthropic Initiative, recently launched a multi-year campaign to help women recognize they have more power at their fingertips to effect social change. It’s called Invest for Better.
International philanthropy has consistently been on the leading edge of the movement to use market forces to stimulate sustainable social change. Yet as long as both donor and foundation leaders’ interest in impact investing far exceeds their actions, an enormous opportunity gap still exists.
The only way to have a positive impact on issues such as gender inequality, socioeconomic disparity, organic agriculture and the environment is through the power of money.
That was the consensus of a panel of women investors at the Northern New England Women’s Investor Network Impact Investing event, held Wednesday in Portsmouth.
Some years ago, I wanted to shift my investment portfolio to become more values-aligned and to seek positive social and environmental impact. Instead what followed were three years of tremendous frustration over the reality that these advisors were not equipped to help me move to where I wanted to go.
Ellen Remmer, Senior Partner at The Philanthropic Institute, discusses the launch of Invest for Better, a new platform to help women lead the way in impact investing.
by Ellen Remmer | 03.27.19
Here’s a radical idea. (Or maybe not.) What if women around the country, of all ages, ethnicities, and income levels, demanded that their assets be invested in a way that didn’t disrespect people, the planet, or their own values?
hosted by Shannah Compton Game | 03.26.19
By 2020 American women will control $22 trillion in capital, and impact investing is expected to reach $440 billion, the real question is How Can Women Tackle Impact Investing with Confidence?
There appears to be some debate among financial advisors about whether women need to invest any differently than men, simply because they’re women. The notion that one’s gender might factor into their investment strategy is based on various realities women face, including that, on average, women live longer than men, make less money, and typically spend fewer years in the workforce (which results in lower Social Security income).
There appears to be some debate among financial advisors about whether women need to invest any differently than men, simply because they’re women. The notion that one’s gender might factor into their investment strategy is based on various realities women face, including that, on average, women live longer than men, make less money, and typically spend fewer years in the workforce (which results in lower Social Security income).