Save the date: FaithInvest Global Members' Conference – June 8-9 |
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A new sense of working together – and our first
Global Members' Conference on June 8 & 9 |
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Dear friends, Perhaps it’s just me but in the last couple of weeks it has felt as if the doom and gloom of the impact of Covid has begun to change. Not because the pandemic is over. Communities are still suffering. But out of the chaos and pain is emerging a new sense of working together. In the last three days we have had discussions with four major new partner networks form the financial world who want to be part of the change that FaithInvest embodies. There is a new energy now, as if things have been developing quietly around the world and now the search is on for others who share a renewed sense of opportunity to make this a more just, compassionate, environmental and sustainable planet. As we plan our first Global Members’ Conference for June 8 and 9 (see below for details), I believe we will see that around the world and in every major faith, there are partners who want to be part of creating these new opportunities – as project pipelines; as investors; as faith philanthropies and development agencies; and as individual believers. Personally I am excited by what is now believed to be possible – and I very much look forward to seeing you at our Members' Conference! |
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We are delighted to invite you to our first Global Members' Conference on June 8-9. Pragmatic Faith-Consistent Investing: A working conference for faith-based asset owners will be an action-oriented, information-rich online event held across two half-days, from 12.00-17.00 BST. Our working agenda includes: |
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- The Faiths as Stakeholders – opportunities and challenges
- Working Group Showcase sessions – moderated sessions where members share progress and collaborate on next steps – for example, our Manager Database, Impact Investing (including insights from the Dharmic faiths), Ethical Institutional Banking, and solutions for smaller investors (including commingled structures)
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- Practical Faith-consistent Investment Implementation session on rooting your investment policy and guidelines in faith-based principles, aligning mandates and shifting capital.
- Curated Networking and knowledge and experience sharing
- Interactive Demonstrations – of our new Member Portal and Manager Database
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The conference is aimed at FaithInvest members as well as those thinking of becoming members. Our membership is open to faith-based asset owners – investment professionals and those who work with them to align their investments – and we welcome faith-based organisations of all size and sophistication of investment portfolio. |
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Any other faith-based asset consultants, advisors and managers who wish to find out more, please contact us at engagement@faithinvest.org. |
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Member Portal: We're very close to launching our Member Portal, which will be a key tool in our efforts to support members to shift capital into faith-consistent investment opportunities. This will be where: - Members can will safely and securely interact with each other online
- Member Work Groups will take place on topics such as:
- creating a Manager Database
- looking at commingled vehicles and
- creating interesting investment opportunities.
Membership Fees: We had originally planned to charge Membership fees from April 2021 but as you know, our programme of events and activities last year could not take place as planned due to the pandemic. As a result we are extending our period of free membership, and hope you will join us as we launch our range of projects, our Member Portal, and our first Global Members’ Conference. We want to build momentum and demonstrate value before we charge fees, and therefore do not anticipate charging any membership fees before Q4 of 2021. When fees are charged, any smaller organisations which may require assistance should discuss this with us. For further queries, please contact us at membership@faithinvest.org. |
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WEBINARS AND EVENTS Thursday 15 April 2021, 2pm BST Developing your Faith Long-term Plan: Wisdom Faith groups, and many secular organisations recognise that the environmental crisis is also a spiritual issue. How, through mindfulness, compassion and care, rooted in centuries of experience, can faiths address this spiritual issue? We will explore training, crisis and adaption, practices of prayer and use of litergies as well as the theology of nature from different faith perspectives. This is part of the Faith Long-term Plans series of webinars. Speakers include: - Darin Lamar Jones, Center for Earth Ethics, US
- Dekila Chungyalpa, Director, Loka Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
- Rev Dr Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, Coordinator of Ecology and Creation, the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Italy
- Linda Wong, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, China
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Tuesday 27 April 2021, 2pm BST Developing your Faith Long-term Plan: Advocacy If you’ve ever tried to promote an issue you care about, you’ve engaged in advocacy. Advocacy is about influencing attitudes, opinons and actions to bring about change – whether interally within your own faith group or externally in the wider community. What are the most effective ways of doing this? Originally this webinar was going to include Media but because there is so much to say about each topic, we have split it into two. The Media & Communications webinar is on May 18 – see below for more details. This is part of the Faith Long-term Plans series of webinars. Speakers include: - Moderator: Lorna Gold, FaithInvest
- Martin Palmer, FaithInvest
- Charles McNeill, director of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
- Gopal Patel, Bhumi Gopal
- One more speaker to be confirmed
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Tuesday 18 May 2021, 12 noon BST Developing your Faith Long-term Plan: Media & communications Communicating your Faith Long-term Plan will be critical to its success. Sharing your knowledge, experience and stories – through radio, television, newspapers, websites or social media – will help people understand what you are doing and why. The webinar will feature case studies of successful initiatives, such as EcoSikh, and share how Indonesia's Muslim clerics achieved global coverage of their religious fatwa against the illegal wildlife trade, among other examples. We'll also discuss the best use of media assets, from parish newsletters to websites, from social media to handbooks, and how to tailor subject matter. This is part of the Faith Long-term Plans series of webinars. Speakers include: - Moderator: Susie Weldon, Head of Communications, FaithInvest
- Dr Fachruddin Majeri Mangunjaya, Chairman, Centre for Islamic Studies & lecturer, Universitas Nasional (UNAS) Jakarta
- Two more speakers to be confirmed
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