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Additional Resources and Organizations

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  • Afghanistan

    • Feminist Majority Network
      The Feminist Majority and The Feminist Majority Foundation are committed to empowering women and winning equality through research, the sharing of information of value to feminists everywhere, and effective action.

  • Alternative Investing

    • Blue Energy
      Blue Energy, Home for Ethical Investment and Renewable Energy
    • Heartland Labor Capital Network
      “The Heartland Network works to increase the control of working people over their savings and assets by building a labor/capital investment network that invests pension fund capital in environmentally-responsible, worker-friendly small businesses that cre

  • Animal Rights

    • Animal Legal Defense Fund
      Founded in 1979, ALDF is the country’s leading animal rights law organization working nationally to defend animals from abuse and exploitation.
    • Animal Protection Insitute
      Since 1968, API has been working to protect animals from abuse and exploitation through litigation, legislation, advocacy, and public education. API’s main areas of interest include animals used in entertainment, exotic
    • Coalition for Consumer Info on Cosmetics
      The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC)— comprised of The Humane Society of the United States, Doris Day Animal League, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, The American Anti-Vivisection Society, New England Anti-Vivisection Soc
    • Dr. Temple Grandin
      Dr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and an Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Her web page is designed to educate people about modern methods of livestock handling which will improve animal welfare a
    • Math in Motion
      “Math in Motion: Origami in the Classroom K-8 is an award winning educational program for schools and teachers. Through hands-on activities and fun ways of exploring mathematics with the art of paper folding, children learn about animal welfare and enviro
    • People for Animal Rights
      People for Animal Rights (PAR) is an all-volunteer, non-violent activist, educational group dedicated to the elimination of all animal abuse and exploitation.
    • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
      People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is renown for its high-profile campaigns encouraging consumers to explore vegetarianism, buy fur- and skin-free fashions, and forgo entertainment that exploits animals.
    • Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK)
      Founded by Steve Hindi, a former hunter, in 1993, SHARK has broken new ground in the use of video footage to help expose and stamp out abuse of animals. SHARK focuses on the elimination of the cruelty of bullfights, rodeos and circuses.

  • Burma

    • Burma Border Projects
      Burma Border Projects (BBP) is dedicated to serving the needs of the Burmese refugees (mainly ethnic Karen and Shan) who reside along the border between Burma and Thailand. BBP’s primary focus is to “fill in the cracks” by providing funding for smaller pr
    • Burma Fund, The
      The Burma Fund is dedicated to narrow the present gap between knowledge and policy.
    • BurmaNet News
      The BurmaNet News is an on-line newspaper covering Burma (Myanmar)
    • Free Burma Coalition
      The Free Burma Coalition (FBC) is an umbrella group of organizations around the world working for freedom and democracy in Burma.
    • Open Society Institute, Burma Project
      The Burma Project, established by the Open Society Institute in 1994, is dedicated to increasing international awareness of conditions in Burma and to helping the country make the transition from a closed to an open society.

  • Community

    • Café Utne
      A place in cyberspace where ideas and community intersect
    • Community Investing
      “Community Investing Institutions use your deposits and investments to provide financing to communities that are overlooked by traditional lenders, creating resources and opportunities for people who need them most. Community investing helps provide comm
    • Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
      “The Merrymeeting Bay watershed encompasses 38% of Maine. FOMB works through land protection, education, research & advocacy to preserve & protect the Bay, a freshwater tidal riverine system & home to many endangered and rare species of plants
    • Grassroots.com
      Grassroots.com provides communications and mobilization products and services that enable organizations to fully embrace the Internet and measurably increase the effectiveness of their advocacy efforts.
    • NativeEnergy
      We selected NativeEnergy as our name to reflect our desire to help develop domestic renewable energy resources and to feature Native American projects, which create social, economic and environmental benefits. We launched this web site in the Fall of 2001
    • Pathfinder International
      “For over 40 years, Pathfinder International
    • Social Venture Network
      Since its founding in 1987, the Social Venture Network has advanced the movement for social responsibility in business and the creation of a more just, humane and sustainable society.
    • Social Venture Partners Seattle
      “SVP is a network of engaged donors that brings together nonprofits and philanthropists to learn from each other and build capacity for positive community impact. SVP welcomes Partners from diverse backgrounds who want to pool financial contributions and
    • South Africa Partners
      “Fostering long-term, mutually beneficial partnership development between the United States and South Africa in the areas of health, education, and economic development. Priority is given to projects operating in South Africa’s disadvantaged communities a
    • University Bank
      “Saint Paul’s $80 million University Bank was the first CDFI in Minnesota, specifically financing projects that benefit local distressed neighborhoods. Through the creation of innovative programs like the Urban Revitalization Fund, the Neighborhood Lendin
    • US Public Interest Research Groups
      “Each State PIRG is independent and locally-based. The State PIRGs work together nationally to share ideas and resources and cooperate on regional and national issues.

  • Community Development

    • ACCION International
      ACCION International is a nonprofit that fights poverty through microlending.
    • Calvert Social Investment Foundation
      “Calvert Community Investments is a security enhanced investment notes available for fixed terms and rates, investing in a diversified and professionally managed global portfolio of microcredit, small business, affordable housing, coops, nonprofits and ot
    • Cascadia Revolving Loan Fund
      Cascadia Revolving Fund is a nonprofit community development financial institution that has been pooling socially responsible investments to make loans and provide technical assistance to low-income entrpreneurs since 1985.
    • Chittenden Bank
      Chittenden Bank is Vermont’s largest, full-service bank with over sixty offices throughout the state. We’ve grown and changed with the state itself, and we are proud to have one out of three Vermont households as customers of Chittenden Bank.
    • Coastal Enterprises
      Our mission is to help Maine people and communities, particularly those with low incomes, reach an adequate and equitable standard of living, learning, and working in harmony with our natural environment.
    • Institute for Community Economics (ICE)
      “ICE’s Revolving Loan Fund builds a bridge between socially concerned investors and grassroots organizations revitalizing communities and creating permanently affordable housing. Your investment in ICE helps community land trusts and other community-based
    • Lakota Fund
      The Lakota Fund is a private nonprofit community development financial institution for the Lakota people of the Oglala Lakota Nation in southwestern South Dakota. The fund operates out of the village of Kyle, SD which is located in the geographic center o
    • N. California Community Loan Fund
      The Northern California Community Loan Fund is a nonprofit lender dedicated to strengthening the economic base of low income and minority communities.
    • Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America
      A non-profit housing services and community advocacy organization
    • New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund
      “NMCDLF is a private, non-profit organization that provides loans,
    • Oikocredit (EDCS)
      Oikocredit, Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society (previously EDCS) provides loans to enterprises owned and operated by monetarily poor people.
    • Self-Help Credit Union
      “Self-Help is a community development lender serving home buyers, small businesses and nonprofits across North Carolina. We help people who are underserved by conventional lenders - particularly minorities, women, rural residents, and low-wealth families
    • Shefa Fund
      Money and resources are powerful tools for change. The Shefa Fund draws on centuries of Jewish teachings and combines them with contemporary principles of social responsibility to guide the way we understand and use money. The Shefa Fund encourages Americ
    • ShoreBank (formerly South Shore Bank)
      “ShoreBank is the country’s oldest and largest community development bank. We focus our services on improving the economic health of the neighborhoods we serve, while at the same time addressing the individual financial concerns of consumers, businesses a
    • Shorebank Enterprise Pacific
      Supporting the growth of the Conservation Economy in rural communities of the North American Coastal Temperate Rain Forest.
    • South Africa Partners
      “Fostering long-term, mutually beneficial partnership development between the United States and South Africa in the areas of health, education, and economic development. Priority is given to projects operating in South Africa’s disadvantaged communities a
    • University Bank
      “Saint Paul’s $80 million University Bank was the first CDFI in Minnesota, specifically financing projects that benefit local distressed neighborhoods. Through the creation of innovative programs like the Urban Revitalization Fund, the Neighborhood Lendin
    • Vermont Community Loan Fund
      Providing affordable housing, community facilities, child care, and decent jobs for Vermonters since 1987.
    • Vermont Development Credit Union
      Vermont Development is non-profit, member-owned and federally insured. We are the “bank” of choice for thousands of working families, women, immigrants, small businesses, students, seniors, and ordinary Vermonters. We promote grass-roots community develop
    • Wainwright Bank and Trust Company
      With a sense of inclusion and diversity that extends from the boardroom to the mailroom, Wainwright Bank & Trust Company resolves to be a leading socially responsible bank. The Bank is equally committed to all its stakeholders — employees, customers,

  • Corporate Responsibility

    • Corporate Watch
      Corporate Watch is a radical research and publishing group, based in Oxford, UK. It was set up in late 1996 to support activism against large corporations, particularly multinationals. As a radical group, we are reliant on support from individuals and gro
    • CSR Directory
      Resources for Promoting Global Business Principles and Best Practices. A Directory of People, Organizations and Web Sites.
    • CSR Wire
      The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news.
    • Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
      The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is an association of 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors, including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, endowments, hospital corporations, eco
    • Shareholder Action Network
      “A project of the Social Investment Forum, SAN serves as a clearinghouse of information on shareholder activism to the SRI community. The web site offers a database of current resolutions on social and environmental topics, as well as shareholder news, ac
    • Task Force on Churches & Corp Resp - Canada
      The Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR) is an ecumenical coalition of the major churches in Canada. As a research-action program, the Taskforce assists member organizations in promoting and implementing policies adopted by them o
    • Towards Sustainability
      Towards Sustainability aims to benefit organisations and individuals contributing to the process of change towards a sustainable future. A resource primarily directed to those involved with sustainable development, social change and environmental issues,

  • Economy

    • Responsible Wealth
      Responsible Wealth is a national network of businesspeople, investors and affluent Americans who are concerned about deepening economic inequality and are working for widespread prosperity. Our three primary areas of work are tax fairness, corporate respo
    • University Bank
      “Saint Paul’s $80 million University Bank was the first CDFI in Minnesota, specifically financing projects that benefit local distressed neighborhoods. Through the creation of innovative programs like the Urban Revitalization Fund, the Neighborhood Lendin

  • Education

    • Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
      “The Merrymeeting Bay watershed encompasses 38% of Maine. FOMB works through land protection, education, research & advocacy to preserve & protect the Bay, a freshwater tidal riverine system & home to many endangered and rare species of plants
    • Math in Motion
      “Math in Motion: Origami in the Classroom K-8 is an award winning educational program for schools and teachers. Through hands-on activities and fun ways of exploring mathematics with the art of paper folding, children learn about animal welfare and enviro

  • Environment

    • Blue Energy
      Blue Energy, Home for Ethical Investment and Renewable Energy
    • CERES
      CERES is a nonprofit coalition of investors, public pension funds, foundations, labor unions, and environmental, religious and public interest groups, working in partnership with companies toward the common goal of corporate environmental responsibility w
    • CSR Directory
      Resources for Promoting Global Business Principles and Best Practices. A Directory of People, Organizations and Web Sites.
    • Earth Day Network
      Earth Day Network is the nonprofit coordinating body of worldwide Earth Day activities. Our goal is to promote a healthy environment and a peaceful, just, sustainable world by spreading environmental awareness through educational materials and publication
    • Earth Tones
      “Founded by non-profit groups in 1993, Earth Tones offers high quality internet access, and long distance telephone and cell phone services. In addition, 100% of our profits support grassroots environmental causes.
    • Earthjustice
      “Earthjustice is the nonprofit law firm for the environment, representing—without charge—hundreds of public interest
    • Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
      “The Merrymeeting Bay watershed encompasses 38% of Maine. FOMB works through land protection, education, research & advocacy to preserve & protect the Bay, a freshwater tidal riverine system & home to many endangered and rare species of plants
    • Friends of the Earth, Green Investments
      Friends of the Earth, through its Corporate Accountability and Green Investments programs, is dedicated to making financial markets more capable of protecting the future of the earth and local communities by changing financial systems and practices.
    • Global Green USA
      Global Green USA is fostering a global value shift toward a sustainable future by working in cooperation with individuals, industry, and government. Acting as a catalyst, facilitator, and mediator, GG USA is committed to creating a sustainable and secure
    • Global Reporting Initiative
      The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was established in late 1997 with the mission of developing globally applicable guidelines for reporting on the economic, environmental, and social performance, initially for corporations and eventually for any busine
    • Green Cross International
      “The mission of Green Cross International is to help create the conditions for a sustainable future by cultivating a more harmonious relationship between humans and the environment. Founding President Mikhail Gorbachev has been the force behind the destin
    • Greenpeace
    • Health Care Without Harm
      The campaign for environmentally responsible health care.
    • LightHawk
      “LightHawk, a non-profit organization founded in 1979, addresses critical environmental issues by providing an aerial perspective on areas of concern in the US, Canada and Central America.
    • National Wildlife Federation
      The National Wildlife Federation is the nation’s largest member-supported conservation group. Through its Finance and Environment Program, the NWF seeks to inform financiers, investors and the general public about the role that financial institutions can
    • NativeEnergy
      We selected NativeEnergy as our name to reflect our desire to help develop domestic renewable energy resources and to feature Native American projects, which create social, economic and environmental benefits. We launched this web site in the Fall of 2001
    • Planet Tran
      The vision: an urban transportation infrastructure that utilizes the most efficient transportation technology available. The mission: start a livery service based exclusively on the hybrid electric/gas Toyota Prius, the most technologically advanced vehic
    • Rainforest Action Network
      “Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth’s rainforests
    • RedJellyFish
      Redjellyfish is an environmental super site!
    • Save Our Environment Coalition
      A collaborative effort of over a dozen of the nation’s most influential environmental advocacy organizations: American Oceans Campaign, American Rivers, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Environmental Defense, Greenpeace, League of
    • Sierra Club
      “Our mission statement:
    • Snake River Alliance
      Idaho-based community group working through research, education, and community advocacy for peace and justice, the end to nuclear weapons production activities, and responsible solutions to nuclear waste and contamination.
    • The Louisiana Bucket Brigade
      The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), founded in January 2000, is an environmental organization led by communities that neighbor the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants.
    • U.S. PIRG Arctic Campaign
      U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) speaks for the public interest on consumer and environmental issues. U.S. PIRG’s work to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from drilling by the oil companies includes a corporate campaign focused on the f
    • US Environmental Protection Agency
      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. EPA’s mission is to protect human heal
    • Wilderness Society
      Founded in 1935, The Wilderness Society works to protect America’s wilderness and to develop a nation-wide network of wild lands through public education, scientific analysis and advocacy.
    • World Wildlife Fund
      Known worldwide by its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is dedicated to protecting the world’s wildlife and wildlands. The WWF is actively campaigning to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

  • Equality

    • Disability Rights Activist
      THE DISABILITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST brings together much of the information needed to enable anyone interested in the rights of disabled people to work for those rights.
    • DiversityInc.com
    • Equality Colorado
      Equality Colorado is a non-partisan, statewide organization that works to end discrimination, prejudice and violence and to secure human and civil rights for people of all sexual orientations and gender identies, their families and their communities.
    • Multi Racial Activist
      The Multiracial Activist (TMA) is a libertarian oriented activist journal covering social and civil liberties issues of interest to biracial/multiracial individuals, interracial couples/families and transracial adoptees.
    • Parents Families Friends of Lesbians & Gays
      PFLAG is an international organization created by parents, families and friends to gain understanding and support of our gay loved ones.
    • Robert F. Kennedy Memorial
      “The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, founded in 1968, is a “”living memorial”" established to promote Robert Kennedy’s ideals of civic responsibility and social conscience, the importance of the power of communities and community involvement, and the pursuit
    • Salem Alliance for the Environment
      “Salem Alliance for the Environment (SAFE) is a group dedicated to addressing environmental issues through active programs and educational information. Our goal is to assure that Salem is a healthy and prosperous place in which to live.
    • South Africa Partners
      “Fostering long-term, mutually beneficial partnership development between the United States and South Africa in the areas of health, education, and economic development. Priority is given to projects operating in South Africa’s disadvantaged communities a

  • Financial/Social Investment

    • Community Development Venture Capital Alliance
      “The CDVCA promotes use of the tools of venture capital to create jobs, entrepreneurial capacity and wealth to advance the livelihoods of low-income people and the economies of distressed communities. Funds in the CDVCA network are committed to investment
    • More Than Money
      “More Than Money is a nonprofit, peer education network for people exploring the personal, political, and spiritual impact of wealth in their lives.
    • Progressive Investor
      “Progressive Investor helps people invest in and learn about companies leading the way to a clean economy: fuel cells, renewable energy, green building, organic foods. Published by SustainableBusiness.com.
    • Social Investment Forum
      “The Forum is a national nonprofit membership association dedicated to promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially and environmentally responsible investing. The Forum’s membership includes over 500 social investment practitioners and instituti
    • Social Investment Organization
      Social Investment Organization is Canada’s only national non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of socially responsible investment.
    • Social Venture Partners Seattle
      “SVP is a network of engaged donors that brings together nonprofits and philanthropists to learn from each other and build capacity for positive community impact. SVP welcomes Partners from diverse backgrounds who want to pool financial contributions and

  • Government

    • CSR Directory
      Resources for Promoting Global Business Principles and Best Practices. A Directory of People, Organizations and Web Sites.
    • US Environmental Protection Agency
      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. EPA’s mission is to protect human heal

  • Human Rights

    • American Anti-Slavery Group
      The American Anti-Slavery Group is the only American organization solely dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide. It monitors, documents, and publicizes the plight of slaves around the globe. Its projects include the campaign to expose slavery in the Su
    • Amnesty International
      Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
    • Amnesty USA: Business & Economic Relations Program
      Amnesty International believes that the business community has a responsibility — moral and legal — to use its influence to promote respect for human rights. Through its Business & Economic Relations Program, Amnesty USA works to hold corporations acc
    • Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign
      PICA’s Bangor (Maine) Clean Clothes Campaign, the first U.S. community-based campaign against sweatshops in the global clothing industry, is part of a global campaign to insure that clothing on local shelves is made according to international standards of
    • Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
      “The Center is a non-profit, public interest legal foundation dedicated to furthering and protecting the civil, constitutional, and human rights of immigrants, refugees, indigenous peoples, children, and the poor.
    • Coalition of Immokalee Workers
      “The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a community-based worker organization based in Southwest Florida. Immokalee is Florida’s largest farmworker community. The Coalition fights for, among other things,
    • Global AIDS Alliance
      “The Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) is an international alliance of organizations based in Washington, DC., including religious organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights groups, and AIDS activists. The GAA works to address the AIDS crisis without del
    • Global Exchange
      Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. Since its founding in 1988, it has been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building internati
    • Human Rights Campaign
      The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian and gay political organization, envisions an America where lesbian and gay people are ensured of their basic equal rights — and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
    • Human Rights Watch
      Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
    • International Campaign for Tibet
      The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) works to promote human rights and self-determination for Tibetans and to protect their culture and environment. Among other work, ICT conducts fact-finding missions, testifies before the U.S. Congress and interna
    • International Campaign to Ban Landmines
      Represents over 1,100 human rights, demining, humanitarian, children’s, veterans’, medical, development, arms control, religious, environmental, and women’s groups in over 60 countries, who work locally, nationally, regionally, and internationally to ban
    • International Labor Rights Fund
      “The International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) is a nonprofit action and
    • International Rivers Network
      International Rivers Network (IRN) supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds.Through its China Campaign, IRN has highlighted the environmental and social impact of the Three Gorges Dam along with the corporations and banks
    • Milarepa Fund
      Founded in 1994, the Milarepa Fund organizes awareness fundraising events such as the Tibetan Freedom Concerts. The Milarepa Fund donates to organizations that further the Tibetan cause or promote nonviolence worldwide. It also campaigns for freedom for t
    • National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
      NGLTF is the national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people.
    • Physicians for Human Rights
      Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilizes the health professions and enlists support from the general public to protect and promote the human rights of all people.
    • Prisoners Overseas
      “This site has been created to provide comprehensive information and advice for prisoners and their families worldwide. We aim to raise awareness for political and religious prisoners, torture, genocide, slavery, refugees, children in prison and many othe
    • Robert F. Kennedy Memorial
      “The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, founded in 1968, is a “”living memorial”" established to promote Robert Kennedy’s ideals of civic responsibility and social conscience, the importance of the power of communities and community involvement, and the pursuit
    • Social Accountability International
      “Social Accountability International (SAI) enables organizations to be socially accountable by:
    • Students for Free Tibet
      “Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for independence and cultural survival. SFT is a
    • Uyghur Human Rights Coalition
      The Uyghurs live in the most northwesterly region of China known as East Turkestan or Xinjiang by the Chinese regime. The Uyghur Human Rights Coalition is dedicated to building a strong grassroots movement to protest the Chinese government’s gross human r

  • Media

    • Common Dreams
      Breaking news and views for the progressive community.
    • CSR Wire
      The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news.
    • EarthTimes Daily Web
      Web newspaper on the human environment and related economic, humanitarian and social issues.
    • Environmental News Network
      ENN is your resource for quality environmental news, features and multimedia content.
    • Green Money Journal
      We promote the awareness of socially and environmentally responsible business, investing and consumer resources.
    • Hope Magazine
      “Hope is not religious, new age, or preachy. It’s a quarterly reason to laugh harder, live longer, and think larger. It is one magazine you can depend on for late breaking good news from fearless thinkers, passionate social innovators and giant local hero
    • Institute for Global Communication
      IGC shares the vision to actively promote change toward a healthy society, one which is founded on principals of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices.
    • UTNE Reader
      “Founded in 1984 by Eric Utne, UTNE READER reprints the best articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging in our culture… Provocative writing from diverse perspectives… Insightful analysis of art
    • Working Assets
      Working Assets Funding Service is a long distance, credit card, Internet services and broadcasting company that was created to build a world that is more just, humane and environmentally sustainable.

  • Sexual Orientation

    • Equality Project
      This is the only site on the Web devoted exclusively to the latest news on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered shareholder activism.
    • Equality Colorado
      Equality Colorado is a non-partisan, statewide organization that works to end discrimination, prejudice and violence and to secure human and civil rights for people of all sexual orientations and gender identies, their families and their communities.
    • Gay Financial Network
      Since its launch in April 1998, the Gay Financial Network has been building a robust database - the first virtual referral network of independent financial professionals who seek to target Gay and Lesbian clients.
    • Human Rights Campaign
      The Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian and gay political organization, envisions an America where lesbian and gay people are ensured of their basic equal rights — and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
    • International Lesbian & Gay Association
      The International Lesbian and Gay Association is a world-wide federation of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people everywhere.

  • Sexual Orientation

  • Shopping

    • Enviroshop
      Featuring a selection of environmental and cruelty free products with convenient and secure on-line shopping.
    • Ethical Shopper
      The leading guilt-free shopping e-retailer providing environmental goods, services and information on the Internet.
    • IdealsWork
      “IdealsWork.com empowers consumers to influence the practices of companies by allowing them to compare the social and environmental performance of thousands of product brands, using criteria that they select and weight according to their own personal pref
    • Message!Products
      The premiere check printer working with non-profits to provide personal checks, hemp covers and other licensed merchandise.
    • Pangea Vegan Products
      Exclusively vegan products for a cruelty-free lifestyle.
    • RealGoods.com
      “Since our inception in 1978, we have tried to change the way America does business by espousing the traditional values of integrity, honesty, friendliness, wise resource use, and ingenuity.”

  • Socially Responsible Banking

    • University Bank
      “Saint Paul’s $80 million University Bank was the first CDFI in Minnesota, specifically financing projects that benefit local distressed neighborhoods. Through the creation of innovative programs like the Urban Revitalization Fund, the Neighborhood Lendin
    • Wainwright Bank and Trust Company
      With a sense of inclusion and diversity that extends from the boardroom to the mailroom, Wainwright Bank & Trust Company resolves to be a leading socially responsible bank. The Bank is equally committed to all its stakeholders — employees, customers,

  • Women

    • National Organization for Women
      Since its founding in 1966, NOW’s goal has been “to take action” to bring about equality for all women. Both the actions NOW takes and its position on the issues are often unorthodox, uncompromising and ahead of their time.
    • New England Women Business Owners
      New England Women Business Owners is the premier organization for women business owners in New England, where an open and honest environment fosters growth through networking, education, and peer support.
    • Resourceful Women
      Resourceful Women is committed to providing a safe, encouraging, and supportive space for women to learn, offering a range of classes, affinity groups, and special events to members all over the San Francisco Bay Area.
    • The Two $and Dollars Foundation
      The Two $and Dollars Foundation has been founded by a group of young women who seek to help motivate, inspire, and educate other young women (ages 20 - 35) to “GET IN THE GAME” when it comes to their money, investing, and planning for financial retirement
    • Women’s Funding Network
      The Network promotes the development and growth of women’s funds that empower women and girls by fostering strategic alliances among women, donors, communities and institutions.


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