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Adasina’s Q2 2025 Impact Update
Q2 2025 Impact Report We’re excited to release Adasina’s Q2 2025 Impact Report! The second quarter of 2025 was characterized in large part by the aggressive enforcement of immigration law and overall harassment of immigrant communities, particularly Latinx immigrants, at the hands of a hostile executive branch. Investors are not separate from the grassroots movements… -
DEI & ESG Investing Outlook: Rachel J. Robasctiotti Interviewed on Wall Street Journal
Adasina’s Founder & Co-CEO Rachel J Robasciotti was recently interviewed by Miriam Gottfried of The Wall Street Journal about the current state of DEI, ESG, and impact investing. Her key takeaway? Despite the political rhetoric, DEI and ESG remain good business. Smart investors and corporations understand this – even if many are quiet about it… -
Adasina’s Q1 2025 Impact Update
Q1 2025 Impact Report We are thrilled to announce the release of Adasina’s Q1 2025 Impact Report! 2025 presents opportunities for our impact work to make important strides, as corporate shifts in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) reinforce the need for continued advocacy and action. This report details the opportunities for change that we have made together… -
Redefining Investor Responsibility In An Age Of Systemic Risk
In a recent feature in Forbes, our Co-CEO Julianne Zimmerman elaborates on Adasina’s approach to social justice investing. She also asserts that ignoring the material impacts of racial, gender, economic, and climate injustice poses real (and escalating) costs. Learn more and take action with us: Redefining Investor Responsibility In An Age Of Systemic Risk. -
Don’t Give Up On DEI, Advisors Say
Danielle Burns, Managing Director at Adasina, was quoted in the article “Don’t Give Up on DEI, Advisors Say,” published in Financial Advisor Magazine. This piece highlights the vital role of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the financial services industry. Dive into the article here. -
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 -
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… -
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. -
A New Hope:
High-Conviction Portfolios with Large-Scale ImpactArticle 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… -
Raise Your Impact Expectations:
Transform Public Companies and FinanceArticle 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,… -
Solving for Inequality:
The Investor Key to Global Economic StabilityArticle 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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Expanding Our Leadership & Scaling for Greater Impact
As many of you know, Adasina Social Capital celebrated our fourth anniversary earlier this year. As we shift into a new phase of firm growth and look to the years ahead of us, we want to begin by saying thank you. It is due, in part, to each and every one of you that we… -
Exploring Social Justice Investing with Julianne Zimmerman
What makes Adasina’s approach so unique? Hear Julianne Zimmerman share her perspective on Social Justice Investing and what motivated her to join Adasina and advance large-scale systemic change through investments. This video also includes actions all investors can take to participate in Social Justice Investing today. -
Investors Take Warning: Guardrails Down
From the Dobbs decision in 2022 to more recent political rulings, the current Supreme Court majority has been increasingly brazen in taking apart the framework of our democracy. As citizens and investors, we survey the big picture, notice the patterns, and take action. Disclaimer: Adasina’s team includes experts in capital markets who are also social… -
The Fearless Fund Court Case:
What Happened and Where Do We Go from Here?As part of the community of investors working to advance social — racial, gender, economic, and climate — justice, we at Adasina have intently watched the Fearless Fund court case since its inception in August 2023. The recent legal ruling detailed below is disheartening, and also proof that we must continue our work. We invite you… -
Adasina’s Unwavering Stand: Addressing Global Atrocities With Social Justice Investing
At Adasina, we are heartbroken as we witness wars and campaigns of genocide spread across the globe today. We are committed to speaking out against these atrocities and standing in unity with those afflicted by violence and oppression. We are horrified by the human suffering and environmental devastation being wrought by militaries, civilian paramilitary forces,… -
The Freedom Economy:
A Legal Network & Community for
Justice & Sustainability InvestorsThis message is provided solely for informational purposes. It does not represent and should not be interpreted as legal, financial, or tax advice. A New Chapter for DEI, ESG & Impact Investing DEI, ESG, and impact investors are powerful social and economic actors that have significantly advanced social justice and sustainability by taking bold action….
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