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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

### [How to Screen Your Investments: Positive and Negative Screening in Faith-Based Investing](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/how-to-screen-your-investments-positive-and-negative-screening-in-faith-based-investing)

Knowing what you believe is the first step. Knowing how to apply those beliefs to a portfolio is the next one. Positive and negative screening are...

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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Faith-Based Investing (FBI)

### [Investing Without Guilt: A Guide to Faith-Based Investing](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/investing-without-guilt-a-guide-to-faith-based-investing)

Seven out of ten Americans say personal values guide their investment choices. For faith-based investors, that alignment is not a preference. It is a...

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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Environmental Social Governance (ESG)

### [Yo Corporate Social Irresponsibility: When Doing Wrong Is Still Good for the Stock Price ur Blog Post Title Here...](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/yo-corporate-social-irresponsibility-when-doing-wrong-is-still-good-for-the-stock-price-ur-blog-post-title-here)

BP, Boeing, McDonalds and British American Tobacco tell very different stories about Corporate Social Irresponsibility. One asks whether reputations...

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

### [The Public Has Spoken: Why CSR Is Good for Business and What the Business Roundtable Finally Admitted](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/the-public-has-spoken-why-csr-is-good-for-business-and-what-the-business-roundtable-finally-admitted)

Milton Friedman said a corporation's only duty is to its shareholders. The Business Roundtable, the public, and fifty years of data say otherwise....

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

### [Does CSR Pay? What CEO Compensation Reveals About Corporate Conscience](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/does-csr-pay-what-ceo-compensation-reveals-about-corporate-conscience)

Corporate Social Responsibility is widely praised as a moral and strategic imperative. But when a CEO's own money is on the line, does that...

 Investing Your Values  Sep 2, 2026

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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

### [The Value-Added Tax: How the World Funds Itself](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/the-value-added-tax-how-the-world-funds-itself)

The value-added tax is largely unfamiliar to Americans, yet it funds governments across more than 120 countries and raises roughly a quarter of the...

 Investing Your Values  Jun 25, 2026

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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

### [Do CEOs Care About Sustainability as Much as Consumers Do?](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/do-ceos-care-about-sustainability-as-much-as-consumers-do)

Consumers increasingly demand sustainability, driven by extreme weather and rising climate awareness. CEOs are responding, but unevenly. More than...

 Investing Your Values  Jun 25, 2026

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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)

### [The Quiet Economics of a Home Vegetable Garden](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/the-quiet-economics-of-a-home-vegetable-garden)

Your backyard garden is a refuge from the pressures of the business world, free of corporate jargon and quarterly reports. It is also, quietly, good...

 Investing Your Values  Jun 25, 2026

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Faith-Based Investing (FBI)

### [Can Methodists Do Well by Doing Good? A Look at Faith and the Church’s Own Portfolio](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/can-methodists-do-well-by-doing-good-a-look-at-faith-and-the-churchs-own-portfolio)

The United Methodist Church holds detailed investment guidelines rooted in its Social Principles, yet its own portfolio still includes holdings that...

 Investing Your Values  Jun 25, 2026

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Catholic Social Teaching (CST)

### [Our Common Home: What Catholic Social Teaching Says About the Environment and the Common Good](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/our-common-home-what-catholic-social-teaching-says-about-the-environment-and-the-common-good)

From Kurt Vonnegut's beetles to Pope Francis's Laudato Si', the moral case for caring for the planet has been made by humanists and theologians...

 Investing Your Values  Jun 17, 2026

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Catholic Social Teaching (CST)

### [Crime, Punishment and the Catholic Conscience: What Dostoevsky Knew and the Bishops Still Teach](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/crime-punishment-and-the-catholic-conscience-what-dostoevsky-knew-and-the-bishops-still-teach)

From Raskolnikov's guilt to the Lord's Prayer, Catholic Social Teaching offers a moral framework for understanding crime and punishment that...

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

### [Is DEI Dead? How Corporate Retreats Set the Stage for What Comes Next](https://investingyourvalues.com/articles/is-dei-dead-how-corporate-retreats-set-the-stage-for-what-comes-next)

In 2024, a wave of corporate DEI rollbacks signaled a turning point. Understanding what drove that shift, and what survived it, is essential context...

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