Further Reading

1. Socially Responsible Investing (Amy Domini)
How to Profit While You're Making a Difference. It sounds like an oxymoron: Can you really make money as a socially responsible investor? The answer is, unquestionably, yes. The way you invest can contribute not only to your bottom line but also to a just and fair society. In Socially Responsible Investing, the movement's pioneer and the name behind the "Domini 400 Social Index" -Amy Domini- shows you how.

Amy L. Domini, founder of Domini Social Investments, is one of the leaders and foremost experts on socially responsible investing, or SRI. Coverage of her or her fund has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CBSMarketwatch.com, CNBC Talking Stocks, the New York Times, and the Investment Advisor. She has been cited by Barron's as one of the mutual fund industry's 25 most influential people of the century, along with Charles Schwab, Peter Lynch, and Jack Bogle.

2. The SRI Advantage (Peter Camejo)
The accounting scandals surrounding Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, and others have rocked the corporate world. All of a sudden, a broad-beamed spotlight is being focused on corporate behavior and the ethics of doing business. Enter socially responsible investing -- or SRI as it is commonly called. SRI is investing that is mindful of the impact on society of that investment, often described to investors as allowing them "to do well by doing good."

3. Investing with your Conscience (John C. Harrington)
The creator of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) shows investors of every calibre how to identify the companies that reflect their own personal values, incorporate those choices into a rewarding, diversified portfolio, and make serious money while advancing political, economic and environmental causes around the world.

4. Mindful Money Guide: Creating Harmony between Your Values and Your Finances (Marshall Glickman)
Money and conscience are often at oddsbut now with this practical, easy-to-follow guide you can create a balance between strong financial health and a rich, meaningful life.

Why is it so difficult to stop seeing the world in terms of money: who has it, who doesn't, what things cost? How much is enough? After several years as a stockbroker on Wall Street, Marshall Glickman left the fiscal stress behind and moved to the serenity of Vermont. There he re-evaluated his relationship with money. Now, in The Mindful Money Guide, Glickman shares his unique, practical approach to reconciling your money with your ideals.

5. Investing with your Values (Jack A. Brill, Hal Brill, Cliff Feigenbaum)
The fact is that you can make money and make a difference at the same time! Now in paperback, this step-by-step guide answers all the financial basics and makes it easy to link your money with your values in a high-performance portfolio.

6. Put Your Money Where Your Morals Are (Scott Fehrenbacher)
Scott Fehrenbacher is founder and former president of American Values Investing, which researches the cultural integrity of America's public companies. He is also president and CEO of Crosswalk.com.

7. Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution (Russell Sparkes)
Over the past decade, socially responsible investment (SRI) has changed from being a niche market to become a core consideration for mainstream investors. As such, pension fund advisers, trustees of charitable foundations and other investment professionals want to understand this new phenomenon. Up to now they have lacked any reference book to teach them what they need to know about SRI. This gap is now filled by the publication of Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution, the first book on SRI specifically written for investment professionals and their clients. The book will also help business executives and business schools looking at better corporate governance and business ethics. Socially Responsible Investment describes how SRI has moved from fringe to mainstream on both sides of the Atlantic, and its current explosive growth rate in Asia and Europe.

8. Ethical Money (John Hancock)
This book reveals the commercial as well as the ethical logic of investing in socially responsible companies. One of the fastest growing sectors in the unit trust industry, ethical investments are increasingly generating superior returns. Ethical Money is a practical guide which shows the reader where to find out about ethical unit trusts and investment trusts and how to compare these in performance against a) peer funds and b) their own past performance.


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