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>> Back to November 2022 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n
(Top image) Calvert Impact portfolio partner AHC Inc.<\/strong><\/a> is a nonprofit developer of affordable housing in the mid-Atlantic region that provides quality homes, often alongside supportive services, for low- and moderate-income families, primarily in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area and Northern Virginia. Here with leaders of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection and the City of Alexandria, AHC Inc. broke ground on The Spire, 113 new affordable apartments for low- and moderate-income families in Alexandria\u2019s West Beauregard neighborhood. Image courtesy of Calvert Impact<\/h5>\n

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At the start of each New Year, it is the Jewish tradition to sound the shofar. The ancient cry of the ram\u2019s horn calls upon us to awaken, to take stock of our actions (and inaction), and to move forward into the new year with conviction and commitment to do better as individuals and as communities, pursuing acts of justice, compassion, and righteousness.<\/h3>\n

\"AmandaThe clarion call of the past two years\u2014throughout a pandemic, climate crisis, war in Ukraine, and racial justice reckonings\u2014has never been louder, but how have we heeded this prophetic cry for justice?<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we have seen a reawakening among faith investors to address these challenges through the power of mobilizing assets in alignment with their values. Over the decades, faith leaders charted a course that has engaged both values-aligned investors and financial professionals. Today, we are witnessing some of the first \u201cimpact investing\u201d pioneers coming together with a new generation of faith-based asset owners and an expanding set of networks that support them, to learn from one another, share knowledge and expertise, and invest their resources for a better world.<\/p>\n

Through an increasingly interconnected and collaborative network within and across faith communities, we are witnessing an ecosystem emerge that is committed to moving their trillions of dollars of collective capital into true global solutions. A movement is underway. Momentum is building. And the urgency is real.<\/p>\n

Through this, two things have become apparent.<\/p>\n

First, faith institutions, which together represent roughly one-tenth of global investable assets<\/strong>1<\/sup>, often serve as catalysts that attract other investors. <\/strong>That means their decisions to invest for impact will continue to have an outsized positive influence on what tomorrow looks like.<\/p>\n

Second, faith-based asset owners are increasingly expecting more \u2014 more from their investments, their policies, their investment committees, their financial advisors and investment consultants<\/strong>. These faith leaders, sometimes prompted by their grassroots, know they can no longer make decisions at a glacial pace when the glaciers are quite literally melting. Consequently, they will demand more from their institutions and from their portfolios, more urgently. And they are doing so through myriad initiatives.<\/p>\n

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