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Former Executive Director of Ceres Robert Massie has been appointed CEO and President of the New Economics Institute effective March 19. Massie led the launch of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) from the helm at Ceres. As President of NEI, Massie will oversee the upcoming Strategies for a New Economy conference where the Capital Institute will host a track on…

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Since we posted our profile of More for Mission (M4M) in June 2010, the organization grew to a total membership of 96 foundations. In May 2012 M4M and Program Related Investment Makers Network (PRI) combined to form the Mission Investors Exchange. The merger of the PRI Makers Network and More for Mission was the end result of a long-standing relationship between the…

At the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference earlier this month, Capital Institute colleague and Braintrust member Peter Victor gave the conference a sneak peek at his work with Tim Jackson on an ecological economics model of rapid economic growth, an economic crash, and a managed low-growth economy. He argues that the early findings suggest a steady-state economy may be…

Capital Institute is proud to report that Peter Kinder, co-founder of KLD Research & Analytics and Capital Institute board member, is this year’s winner of the Joan Bavaria Impact Award.  He was honored along with William Foote, founder and CEO of Root Capital,  as this year’s winners of the fourth annual Joan Bavaria Awards for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets at the…

July 9, 2012 Update—Since we posted our profile of More for Mission (M4M) in June 2010, the organization grew to a total membership of 96 foundations. In May 2012 M4M and Program Related Investment Makers Network (PRI) combined to form the Mission Investors Exchange. The merger of the PRI Makers Network and More for Mission was the end result of…

August 2012 Update—Since we published our profile of Mark Pinsky and the Opportunity Finance Network, Pinsky has continued on at the organization’s helm, deepening OFN’s commitment to supporting a stronger CDFI industry.  OFN recently kicked off the “Create Jobs USA” program in partnership with Starbucks Coffee.  Since its inception the Create Jobs USA fund has provided  approximately $80 million to…

The Center for Labor and Community Research had reason to celebrate last week when we visited with them in Chicago to work on our next Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy Study. CLCR’s tactical expression, the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Campaign and its Austin Polytechnic Academy, had just been singled out for high praise in a study commissioned by…

Despite a well-publicized once-in-a-decade meeting that brought government officials, businesses, and NGOs from 188 nations to the negotiation table, the Rio+20 environmental summit has concluded on Friday with no enforceable commitments on climate change and other ecological crises, frustrating participants and civil society alike. Some progress was made on the sidelines through NGOs and businesses, but there was an overarching…

Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. On May 1st 2012 at 9PM EST, PBS Frontline featured Capital Institute Founder and President John Fullerton in their special “Money, Power, & Wall Street.” Chronicling the 2008 financial crisis and behind-the-scenes events that took place, the four part series provides illuminating critique of Wall Street…

Laura Flanders’s interview with John Fullerton on making finance safe for the planet went live online last week. In it, Flanders asks penetrating questions about the Newtonian groundings of neoclassical economics and finance, reaching full employment without economic growth, and the role of dematerialization in a sustainable economy. John’s responses detail the underlying theme of Capital Institute’s work: structuring a…

August 2012 Update—In June 2010 Capital Institute posted the profile below of the Global Impact Investors Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit focused on promoting a more transparent and efficient global impact investing market. The Global Impact Investors Network (GIIN) has since made significant strides through a variety of initiatives toward its goal of supporting the growth of the market sector.  In…

European leaders have begun to discuss options for moving forward with a process called “enhanced cooperation,” in which nine or more members of the EU agree to work on a proposal together, to bring a trans-European financial transactions tax to fruition.  Vocal supporters for this process include German Chancellor Angela Markel, Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter, and leaders in France,…