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Teleconference Archives available for Fall 2006 Teleconferences
This fall, CSRI continued its free learning sessions introduced in the Winter of 2006. In addition to the three key SRI strategies we covered at that time, two new sessions were added to the fall schedule. If you missed the calls, you can still download the presentations! Each presentation is offered as a PowerPoint or PDF.
Previous Presentations:
Ideals Work! Financial – A Screening Tool
Shareholder Advocacy
Investment Screening
Community Investing
Where is Your Congregation Along the Spectrum of Involvement?
SRI Teleconferences this Fall!
What: The UUA Committee on Socially Responsible Investing is proud to continue its free learning sessions introduced in the Winter of 2006. In addition to the three key SRI strategies we covered at that time, we've added two new sessions for the fall schedule.
How: Gather around the speakerphone for one or all five sessions. Download each PowerPoint presentation from the website at www.uua.org/finance/sri, or request a copy to be emailed to you beforehand. Each session includes a 45-minute presentation followed by 15 minutes of questions and answers. Register at least three days before the session by emailing Audra Friend with your name, phone number, congregation or other affiliation, and your role/title at afriend@uua.org .
When: Each session is on a Saturday morning for one hour from 1:00pm EST to 2:00 EST. Start times in other regions: 12pm Central Time, 11am Mountain, and 10am Pacific.
Topics include Community Investing, Shareholder Activism, Investment Screening, Spectrum of Involvement, and Screening Tools.
More information here 
To participate:
USA Toll-Free Access #: (866) 868-1054
Conference Code: 1571617
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Donna Chapman tends flowers on
deck of new home.
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UU-supported community based investing helps First Nation people return to their homes
By Sassy Smallman
Member, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Kennebunk, Maine
At the age of 62 Viola Cotta, a Penobscot Indian born on Maine's Indian Island, did something she had always dreamed of doing: she bought a home on Indian Island and returned to live with her tribe. Viola's dream, realized four years ago, became a reality with a mortgage from Four Directions Development Corporation, a non-profit, Native-governed community development financial institution (CDFI).
Four Directions raises the capital to make loans from public and private sources. Two years ago, Four Directions and the Maine Council of Churches (MCC) joined forces to create the Giving Winds Capital Campaign as a means of outreach to communities of faith. MORE>>
...Then this winter [the UUA Committee on Socially Responsible Investing] tried something new. Without a lot of fanfare and with a minimum of advertising, it held three teleconferences on SRI: one on investment screening, one on shareholder activism, and one on community investment. Nothing fancy, just PowerPoint presentations and experts responding to the questions of people gathered around computer screens and speakerphones across the country.
But the response was so good—85 people from 32 congregations participating—that the committee plans to repeat the series of presentations next fall and winter.
Entire article can be found at uuworld.org. Presentations from each teleconference are available for download.
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