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Global Environment Fund (GEF) is an international investment management firm established in 1990 to invest in, and provide management support to, companies that make positive contributions to environmental quality, human health and the sustainable management of natural resources. The Firm’s investments focus primarily on companies whose business operations deliver measurable environmental improvements through deployment of improved environmental infrastructure and “clean” technologies. GEF’s investment objective is to provide superior returns by harnessing the power of technological innovation to promote energy sources and means of production that are cleaner, cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable.

Russia, long known as a culture whose people - rich and poor - revere the arts in all its many forms, has also developed a reputation as an emergent economy that is solely driven by immediate profit, if not greed. Since the government provides no tax relief or other incentives for philanthropy, the story of Interros is more noteworthy. Interros has stepped beyond simply giving to providing sustainable development in the area of art, culture and education by supporting long-term social programs in education and culture.

Chase Home Finance hasn't just paid lip service to diversity; they have invested billions to make it a business necessity. How? Executives realized that reaching into underserved, lower income communities would not only open up a new market. It would also require employees who represented the minority members within those communities. The result: An initial $500 billion investment that is both reshaping community redevelopment efforts across North America, and also changing the company's diversity profile.

Luther Tyson and Jack Corbett developed the first investment fund that enables people to invest in companies that uphold high ethical standards of social responsibility. By giving investors such a choice, the two essentially reevaluated and transformed the role of investors in society.

Because strict religious practices prohibit Muslims from participating or investing in certain types of businesses or financial products that are incompatible with Islamic law, Saturna Capital Corporation created a fund designed to meet the needs of Muslim investors.