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  • 2024 Impact Report

    We are thrilled to announce the release of Adasina’s 2024 Impact Report! This report builds on the foundation laid by our inaugural report, showcasing meaningful, measurable progress we have made together over the last year to advance racial, gender, economic, and climate justice. Download Adasina’s Impact Report Here
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  • Entry Points for Equity: Risk Criteria and Partnership in Indigenous-aligned Portfolios

    We’re excited to share that Kevin O’Neal Smith, Adasina’s Impact Strategist, has written an insightful article titled “Entry Points for Equity: Risk Criteria and Partnership in Indigenous-aligned Portfolios,” featured in GreenMoney. This article highlights the crucial need for integrating social justice and rights-based perspectives into ESG investment strategies. Discover the importance of this approach by…
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  • Inclusion Is Still a Strategic Necessity

    Check out Julianne Zimmerman‘s insightful article, “Inclusion Is Still a Strategic Necessity,” featured on ImpactEntrepreneur. She emphasizes how embracing inclusive practices can significantly boost business success. Dive into the article here.
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  • A New Hope:
    High-Conviction Portfolios with Large-Scale Impact

    Article by Julianne Zimmerman This article is the first in our three-part series, So You Say You Want Impact  — next up: Choose Aligned Returns. For decades, investment advisors have told impact-seeking clients that values-aligned investing just isn’t practical as a core strategy. They have advised, “You won’t love what’s in your public markets portfolio…
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  • Choose Aligned Returns

    Article by Julianne Zimmerman This article is the second in our three-part series, So You Say You Want Impact  — read the previous installment, A New Hope, or jump to our next installment, Raise Your Impact Expectations. Just like in any field, there are persistent misconceptions in investing. Some are so widespread and deeply rooted that…
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  • Raise Your Impact Expectations:
    Transform Public Companies and Finance

    Article by Julianne Zimmerman This article is the third in our three-part series, So You Say You Want Impact. Read previous installments A New Hope and Choose Aligned Returns. If you’ve read this far in our So You Say You Want Impact series, you are probably either an investor who already has defined impact objectives,…
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  • Solving for Inequality:
    The Investor Key to Global Economic Stability

    Article by Julianne Zimmerman Key Points The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) recent 2025 Global Risks Report finds that inequality, climate risk, biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, warfare, and geoeconomic confrontation are all widely recognized as severe and intensifying threats. The report also concludes that these threats are interconnected. While recent executive orders undermining DEI, JEDI, and…
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  • Palestine & Adasina: Opposing State Violence with Social Justice Investing

    Preface “It is important to remember the role that organized protest movements have played in the United States. The arc of justice in this country has always been served by listening to dissent rather than silencing or squashing it. Indeed, protest movements are how we got to a time and place in the U.S. where…
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  • Rest as Social Justice: My Upcoming Sabbatical

    As the Founder and Co-CEO of Adasina Social Capital, I have been driven for more than 20 years by a personal commitment to advancing social justice in the public markets. I am deeply proud of Adasina’s leadership as a community-centric leader in Social Justice Investing, amplifying and elevating social justice movement goals, and using the…
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  • A Post-Election Love Letter to My Beloved Impact Investing Community

    To my beloved community, In the aftermath of this election, I am reaching out from my fiercely loving heart and unyielding commitment to what we have been building together for many years. In the tenderness of our grief over what might have been under different leadership, we stand at a crossroads: we can deepen divisions…
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