Natural Investments PBLLC

Natural Investments has nearly tripled investment into local communities and small business enterprises across public and private markets over the last five years. #community #impact https://lnkd.in/gU85BYtw

Spotlight: Organically Grown Company "OGC is known for its principled relationships with organic farmers, employees, customers, investors, and nonprofit allies—relationships it did not want compromised under the ownership of a corporation that does not share OGC's vision of organic agriculture's power to improve the health of communities and the planet. To ensure its independence, OGC radically changed its corporate structure to Purpose Trust ownership in 2018, becoming the first Purpose Trust in the US." https://lnkd.in/gfkjaDtj

In the last year, Natural Investments has directed $462 million—over a quarter of its assets under management—into 94 private entities supporting the public good for people and the planet in a regenerative economy. https://lnkd.in/gK2QytUB

Natural Investments is working towards stewarding captial more equitably. The firm's private market holdings invested $376.4 million in either women-led organizations or organizations led by a person of color. This represents 26% of Natural Investments' overall SRI assets under management. #racialjustice #impinv https://lnkd.in/gU85BYtw

The 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh killed 1,138 garment workers and injured another 2,500. The International Accord was established two years ago to answer the global call for garment worker safety, with Pakistan its primary focus of major brands such as Adidas, Benetton, Fruit of the Loom, Gap, Georgio Armani, H&M, Hanes, Mango, and O'Neill have signed on and committed to cultivate a culture of worker safety in hundreds of supplier factories in that country. This work remains unfinished—in the past year Natural Investments joined 190 investment firms to request more companies sourcing from garment manufacturers sign on to the International Accord and take critical steps to permanently assure worker safety. https://lnkd.in/gz9vUZ_F

Approximately 72% of Natural Investments' SRI assets, both in the public and private markets, were pegged to at least one of 17 UN SDGs. goals. View the top five #SDG https://lnkd.in/gU85BYtw

Like many cities around the country, Kansas City has a de facto racial divide that separates its wealthy white community on its west side from its poor, majority Black community on the east side. A particular street, Troost Avenue, has been the dividing line for three generations. Only one-third of the neighborhood's members own the home in which they live, compared with an 85% homeownership rate on the west side. Read more about LocalCode Kansas City's goal is to revitalize and transform the neighborhoods.

While two dozen states have passed legislation prohibiting responsible investing from being applied to state pension plans, fortunately the U.S. Senate has thus far resisted efforts by a Republican-majority House to reduce the funding of the SEC, prohibit it from using its budget to enforce rules it has already passed on matters of shareholder rights and proxy voting, and prevent the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing the #ESG fiduciary rule passed in 2022 that permits retirement plans to include ESG factors in the selection of investments. Read 5 Facts about #SRI https://lnkd.in/gz9vUZ_F

Natural Investments has more than doubled its holdings in the last five years. In the last year alone, Natural Investments grew 22% to $1.44 billion in SRI assets under management due to market recovery and an influx of new clients seeking SRI investments. #esg #sri https://lnkd.in/gU85BYtw

2024 Annual Impact Report Investors continue to pursue sustainable and socially responsible investing, despite attacks on #ESG policies from conservative spheres and the Federal Reserve's efforts to shrink the economy. Natural Investments has more than doubled its holdings in the last five years. Read about the $1.44B in #SRI over the last year. https://lnkd.in/gU-5iXNF