What is a community development investment?
“Community development investments are made primarily to support or encourage community development. The economic benefit is secondary.” ¹ (Please note: As a customer of SRB, you are actively participating in community development investing. Your deposit dollars are reinvested through loans into projects and small businesses that benefit our local economies and communities.) What is shareholder activism? Shareholder activism takes two forms. The first is the effort of institutions (such as pension funds) to encourage corporations to act more in the interests of the shareholder. The second form is through actively speaking out as a shareholder to influence social reform on labor and environmental issues, which are affected by a corporation’s operations and activities. How did socially responsible investing come about? The origins of socially responsible investing began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through established churches. Somewhere between 1910 and 1920, a m
