SRI in the Rockies to Honor Community Investors

Investors who earmark at least one percent of their capital for community investment will be honored at the 2008 SRI in the Rockies Conference, the premier annual conference for the sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) industry in North America.

“Community investing, a core SRI strategy, has successfully served the same populations currently reeling from bad loans made by predatory lenders,” said Lisa Woll, chief executive officer of the Social Investment Forum (SIF).  “Continuing to expand the pool of funds available for community investing is more important now than ever before.”

SRI in the Rockies is collaboration between the Social Investment Forum and First Affirmative Financial Network.  More than 700 participants are expected to gather in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, October 26–28, 2008 for the 19th annual SRI in the Rockies Conference.

Community investors’ direct capital to communities underserved by traditional financial services, providing access to credit, equity, capital and basic banking products that economically distressed communities and lower-income borrowers otherwise would not have.

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