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When Your Investment Strategy Undermines Your Values

Our foundation's investment portfolio includes companies that directly contradict our social justice mission but the board says we need those returns to fund our work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are caught in the paradox of using morally problematic means to fund morally righteous ends.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Institutional ethics and organizational integrity?”

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