Affiliates Circle
Different types of institutional investors are addressing the opportunities targeted investing can bring to their investment practice. There is potential for meaningful collaboration that makes achieving scale possible. Leveraging foundation assets along with other institutional capital can significantly transform underserved areas and achieve scale with multiple sources of capital. More for Mission seeks to collaborate with other institutional investors that may include public sector pension funds, faith-based organizations, and university endowments. More for Mission affiliates currently include:
TIAA-CREF
TIAA-CREF is a national financial services organization with more than $410 billion in combined assets under management (as of 6/30/10) and the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields. TIAA-CREF has a long history of SRI and, in 2006, formed a Social and Community Investing Department within the company’s asset management division, to increase the Company’s commitment to socially responsible investing (SRI). The firm’s SRI program combines three complementary strategies: social screening, shareholder advocacy and impact or community investing. TIAA-CREF’s recent 2010 Socially Responsible Investing Report Investing with Integrity, shows how the firm has aligned values with strategies across three critical issues: climate change, human rights and economic development, executive compensation and corporate accountability. TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC and Teachers Personal Investors Services, Inc., members of FINRA, distribute securities products.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
ICCR, based in New York City, assists faith-based institutional investors and promotes the corporate social responsibility movement. ICCR's membership is an association of 275 faith-based institutional investors, including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, foundations, hospital corporations, economic development funds, asset management companies, colleges, and unions.
The International Interfaith Investment Group (3iG)
3iG, based in Barcelona, Spain, assists faith-consistent investors in facilitating and advancing their engagement in the area of faith-consistent investing. 3iG members include faith-based institutional investors representing the religions from around the world, which are committed to the principle of faith-consistent and socially responsible investing.
Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC)
REC, based in New York City, supports and encourages colleges and universities across the United States to invest their endowments in more responsible ways. REC works with over 40 multi-stakeholder university committees on investment responsibility and 50 student groups.