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Planting Seeds: Meet with your treasurer or financial team to discuss your current investments
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Meet with the financial personnel of your faith community and review your portfolios to learn more about your investments and their connections with fossil fuels
- Learn whether your investment advisors are experts in socially and environmentally responsible investing
- Find out if you have an investment policy statement clearly stating what can/cannot be held in the account
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment
- Clean energy investment resources
- Socially Conscious Funds List
Available Resources in Western North Carolina:
- Earth Equity Advisors, Asheville NC, with free initial consultation
- ReVest – Earth Equity Advisors
Nurturing Growth: Explore and learn about environmentally and socially responsible investment options
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- Set up a consultation meeting with an advisor/organization focused on divestment and reinvestment (such as Earth Equity Advisors in Asheville, NC)
- Research reinvestment options online, focusing on supporting things like clean and renewable energy, fossil fuel divestment, etc.
- Read about what your denomination or faith network is already doing in regards to divestment and reinvestment – look for proposed or passed resolutions, statements, etc.
- Begin having conversations with your faith community about morally responsible investing (hold congregational conversations, discuss these issues in bible study or small groups, add a word in your sermon/message/homily/etc.)
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment
- Clean energy investment resources
- Socially Conscious Funds List
- Denominational Networks and Divestment:
- UCC – Divesting from fossil fuel companies and shared activism information
- UCC – Beyond Fossil Fuels
- PCUSA – Fossil Free
- Quaker – Fossil Free Friends
- UMC – Fossil Free
- UU – Divest Reinvest
- Catholic – Divest and Reinvest
- Divest-Reinvest Toolkit for Catholic Communities
Available Resources in Western North Carolina:
- Earth Equity Advisors, Asheville NC, with free initial consultation
- ReVest – Earth Equity Advisors
Deepening Roots: Reallocate your investments to align with Creation care values
Suggested Practices and Examples for Implementation:
- As you prepare to reallocate your investments, continue to talk with your faith community about why you feel called to do so
- Fossil-fuel divestment
- Reinvestment into sustainable solutions
- Write a resolution on divestment and reinvestment, or in support of further study on these topics
General Information Related to this Strategy:
- “Extracting Fossil Fuels from your Portfolio: A Guide to Personal Divestment and Reinvestment”
- Making divestment and reinvestment resolutions
- Divestment resources
- Fossil free funds
- Socially Conscious Funds List
Available Resources in Western North Carolina:
- Earth Equity Advisors, Asheville NC
- ReVest – Earth Equity Advisors
Local Faith Communities Currently Utilizing this Strategy:
- High Country United Church of Christ, Vilas, NC (investing with UCC’s Pension Boards, which have divested from fossil fuel stocks)
- Contact Rev. Tamara Franks: pastor@highcountryucc.org
