Having just celebrated Thanksgiving, a holiday we cherish for the custom and encouragement to both reflect on and to share all we are grateful for, we at Nia are enjoying leftovers today and choosing to #OptOutside. We love the opportunity to connect with nature rather than shopping on Black Friday. Do join us out for a hike in Oakland’s beautiful Jaaquin Miller park if you are free! Today we are also excited to announce our plans for Giving Tuesday 2017 and to encourage our community to join us in this day of generosity. Giving Tuesday was founded in 2012 on the heels of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In response to two days focused on consumption and spending, Giving Tuesday reminds us of
Story featured in GreenMoneyJournal.com here. As an impact investor, a financial change agent and entrepreneur, my money story centers around aligning assets with values. At Nia Impact Advisors, we move investment dollars into the companies that matter—those working to create the world in which we want to live. I come by this work having grown up immersed in the belly of our financial markets. As a child, money was tight; often a stressful topic at our house. Money messages included being prudent, entrepreneurial and thrifty. I wore hand-me-down clothes, planted seeds in our victory garden and overheard as my parents argued over whose turn it was to pick up the food stamps. My father taught
Image Courtesy of Oxfam Blogs: Should Men Avoid All Male Panels “Manels”—the term I am using here to refer to the all-male panel--are so common in most industry events, we don’t often stop to question them. From television commentators, to conferences, to business schools, in board rooms, at the White House—manels make up the typical faces and voices framing discussions and shaping public opinion. For the world of impact investors, fall is conference season. Between SOCAP, Opportunity Collaboration, SV2, Impact Hub convenings, TONIIC, 100% Network, SRI, and others, many of us are racking up miles traveling to these gatherings, sharing ideas and best practices, debating industry definitions,
