In our Livable Future Investing workshops, we like to start with a question that gets people talking about the heartbreak. We feel it’s important to connect with this grief, pain, as a way of opening up our empathy muscle to begin to strengthen the bonds of community and kind of culture we’re trying to create. […]
I’ve been listening to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this past week. In particular his August 1967 “Where do we go from here speech?” (video) at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. One of the parts that moves me is his synthesis of so much context that he’s living in the midst of. I’m not […]
An area of significant learning for me this year was my work supporting an Investment Committee through a significant decision around their endowment. What I didn’t realize, was that the leader of the committee had a certain point of view and as a result was uninterested in taking the time to ask the committee to […]
As I reflect on 2023 and prepare for 2024, I wanted to name a few inquiries that have begun to marinate inside of me. As Rilke says: Live the questions! Big Picture A couple macro trends I hope for over the next few years: On a more personal note Integrating with the big picture I […]
One of the highlights of 2023 has been the on-going companionship with Cristina, Alex, Lalo, Alejandro, and others from Yomol A’tel — a Tseltal cooperative ecosystem we spent 6 weeks visiting in 2022 in Chiapas, Mexico. They are one of a large number of social enterprises that emerged from the Jesuit mission centers in Latin […]
One of the highlights of 2023 for me was spending time and getting to know the Catholic Impact Investing Collaborative (CIIC). CIIC has a beautiful story in John and Jake coming to know each other and building a relationship and inviting others “on fire” with impact investing to join together. I loved learning the stories […]
In 2023, I was introduced to Adrienne Buller’s The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. It’s an extraordinary take down of the dominant ways we are approaching climate change and ecological crisis. Since I worked as a consultant for oil & gas companies in 2009, I’ve been looking for somebody who […]
I got depressed when I first started reading Janelle Orsi’s analysis about tax-advantaged retirement plans (401(k)s, 403(b)s, Individual Retirement Accounts (Roth IRAs and Traditional)). But, in 2023, I wanted to set up a retirement benefit for myself and my colleagues at Francesco Collaborative, so I was pushed to figure out what our options were. After […]