New Impact Investing Opportunity At Oregon Jewish Community Foundation
Philanthropy is more dynamic than you may realize. As our financial and social approaches to making a difference in the world have evolved, so too…
Read MoreFaith-Based Investing Means Not Checking Spiritual Values At The Door
As the CEO of a Jewish community foundation, I often walk the halls, sanctuaries, offices and schools of many synagogues.
Read MoreKosher and Halal Slaughter is being Vilified in Europe. Here’s What Concerned Investors Can Do About It
On Sept. 1, the picturesque region of Wallonia will become the second in Belgium to ban killing animals without stunning them, rendering both kosher and…
Read More‘Jewish Values’ Investors Are Targeting An Israeli Company — For The First Time
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a poster child for Israeli economic success. Built from a group of companies founded in the early years of the 20th…
Read MoreJLens Represents Jewish Communal Capital at Interreligious Vatican Summit
Recently, the Vatican invited JLens to participate in a conference on religions and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of seventeen ambitious goals…
Read MoreAirbnb Abandons CSR Values by Acquiescing to Anti-Israel BDS Campaign
Airbnb executives acquiesced last week to pressure from the BDS (“Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions”) campaign by removing roughly 200 Jewish rental listings in the West…
Read MoreJLens Receives $10m Impact Investment from Leichtag Foundation
The Leichtag Foundation has awarded a $10 million challenge impact investment to JLens‘ Jewish Advocacy Strategy, a Jewish values-aligned investment offering that advocates with companies…
Read MoreBrooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change. Will others follow suit?
Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase, making it the first U.S. synagogue to publicly divest from…
Read MoreIsrael: The Startup Charitable Nation
Throughout the world, Israel is known as the “startup nation,” where investors are increasingly drawn to the innovation and brainpower that are its greatest natural…
Read MoreCan Jewish charities do good and make money? Impact investors say yes.
For all of its modern history, the American Jewish community has pursued most of its goals through philanthropy — funding programs and institutions through donations…
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