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• Social Finance From An Investor’s Perspective: Fifth in a SeriesPublished August 1, 2010 at 1:31 pm

  Leslie Christian, our Board Chair, also serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of RSF Social Finance, and has contributed a series of fantastic essays about impact investing in the 21st Century. This fifth essay in the series details the three investment strategies – Ecological Carpetbagging, Global Good, and Transition to Community – and offers example investments that fit the strategies. Leslie’s description of “Transition to Community” investing also sums up Upstream 21 quite nicely: “Employees, community, the environment, customers, [...]

• Leslie interviewed by The Capital InstitutePublished July 30, 2010 at 9:01 pm

  Leslie Christian, our Board Chair, was interviewed by The Capital Institute, who highlighted her as one of the thought leaders in Finance and Investing today. The Capital Institute defines itself in the following way: “The Capital Institute is a non-partisan, 21st century innovation center, founded in 2009 by financiers, business people, and academics from multiple disciplines to effect change. Our mission is to drive systemic change of financial theory and practice necessary to harness the [...]