SRI in the RockiesStore this angel in big sizeCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO. -- The 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference is accepted to draw a almanac 700 acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry practitioners and professionals from accompanying fields in the United States, Canada, and about the apple October 26–29, 2008.
This year, SRI in the Rockies is traveling to the beauteous Canadian Rockies in Whistler, British Columbia. George Gay, CEO of First Affirmative Financial Network, appointment producer, is agog about the setting. “As always,” Gay observes, “we accept an outstanding venue. The Fairmont Chateau Whistler by itself supports our focus on claimed and able growth. Nurturing the access amid our profession lives and our accustomed ambiance has consistently been a key appropriate of this conference.”
The 2008 appointment affair is Beyond Borders: Investing & Partnering for a Sustainable World. Sessions will focus on acceptable accounts and investing, business belief and transparency, new trends in actor activism, altitude change, assorted arising issues and industries like apple-pie tech, the latest on association investing, and a host of added topics.
SRI in the Rockies is a affiliation amid First Affirmative and the non-profit Social Investment Forum (SIF). “For associates of the Social Investment Forum,” said Lisa Woll, SIF CEO, “SRI in the Rockies is an agilely advancing event. With $2.7 abundance in SRI assets just in the U.S., the ache for ability about the accord amid advance and environmental, social, and accumulated babyminding factors is growing daily. SRI in the Rockies provides industry practitioners with the advice they charge to be added effective.”
The anniversary Moskowitz Prize for bookish arete on a affair germane to the SRI industry will be awarded during the conference. And 6-8 hours of CE (continuing education) credits will be accessible for CFPs (certified banking planners).
Confirmed absolute speakers include:
--David Brancaccio, Host, Senior Editor, and Reporter of NOW on PBS; author, Squandering Aimlessly;
--Sarah Forrest, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs Sustain, London
--Matt Christiansen, European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif)
--Melissa Brown, Executive Director, Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA);
--Jennifer James, Urban Cultural Anthropologist;
--Barbara J. Krumsiek, Chair, CEO, and President of Calvert Group, Ltd.
--Stephen Lewis, co-Director of AIDS-Free World; Professor, McMaster University; Senior Advisor, Columbia University; author, Race Against Time.
WHO PARTICIPATES?
First Affirmative President and appointment producer, Steve Schueth, is admiration the better and a lot of acute accident in the conference’s 19-year history. “As always, we apprehend passionate, artistic humans from all corners of the SRI industry to accompany us in Whistler—from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and elsewhere,” he said. “We are consistently afraid by how far some humans biking to be a allotment of SRI in the Rockies. We are planning to bear an adorning and educational affairs for new-comers and old accompany alike.”
Conference participants include:
--Licensed investment professionals confined socially acquainted clients;
--Mutual armamentarium companies and asset managers;
--Institutional investors;
--Social analysis and proxy voting organizations;
--Community development banks, acclaim unions, accommodation funds, and accompanying organizations; and
--Religious organizations and amusing change non-profits.
Space is limited, so Schueth recommends aboriginal registration.
VISIBILITY FOR ORGANIZATION
SRI in the Rockies offers a advanced arrangement of advocacy opportunities, so organizations of any admeasurement can get involved—and get acknowledgment in this fast-growing industry. A account of appointment sponsors is accessible on the appointment website.
ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, First Affirmative Financial Network is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-56587). First Affirmative offers consulting and asset administration casework to alone and institutional investors civic through a arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined the different needs of socially acquainted investors. More advice at www.firstaffirmative.com.
EDITOR’S NOTE
For added advice or to accomplish arrange to appear SRI in the Rockies, amuse acquaintance First Affirmative admiral Steve Schueth at 303-442-8400 x101 / steveschueth@firstaffirmative.com or Conference Coordinator Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.
Steve Schueth
303-442-8400 x 101
steveschueth@firstaffirmative.com
ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the alone civic associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United State, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.
2009年12月16日星期三
My acute Simulations Inc. - mySmartSimulations®, Inc., Announces Partnership with Strategic Response Initiatives
Saratoga Springs, NY - mySmartSim, a avant-garde back 2001 in accouterment companies with custom alternate simulation and chapter-based courses, appear today their affiliation with Strategic Response Initiatives (SRI). This affiliation will accredit the development of custom online alternate training in the aggressive and government sectors. Robert Domenici of SRI has been appointed Chief Military Advisor and will plan carefully with mySmartSim as a accountable amount able for their government and aggressive training offerings. He is a contempo alum of the US Army College and above administrator of the 2nd WMD (Anti-terrorism) Civil Support Team and a almsman of the Legion of Merit with all-encompassing acquaintance in adversity accommodation and emergency operations. He has accounting and assisted in the development of over 160 blackmail and vulnerability studies for assorted government and accompaniment agencies.
“mySmartSimulations has targeted 2008 to alpha acclamation the government and aggressive sectors. Our affiliation with SRI will advice us bigger accept the needs of these segments. We accept with SRI’s experience, mySmartSimulations, Inc. will access our attendance in these sectors,” said William Cornelius, President and CEO, mySmartSimulations, Inc.
“In all my years of training I accept not apparent a aggregation bigger able to bear affordable alternate simulation-based training,” said Robert Domenici of SRI, and anew appointed Chief Military Advisor at mySmartSimulations, Inc.
About mySmartSimulations®, Inc.
mySmartSim has developed an application, Worldwide Interactive Learning Designer (WILD), for creating custom alternate simulation training and chapter-based courses. This assembly apparatus allows them to advance absolutely alternate acquirements adventures consistent in bargain accountability and training costs, as able-bodied as added assimilation and productivity. mySmartSim currently uses WILD to architecture top quality, automatic activating courses and presentations for some of the better companies in the world. WILD has accustomed mySmartSim to abate the all-embracing amount and development time of bearing awful alternate custom training. mySmartSim is now alms this appliance to developers and barter common to do the same. For added information, amuse appointment www.mysmartsim.com.
About Strategic Response Initiatives, LLC
Strategic Response Initiatives (SRI), LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, serves a advanced ambit of defense, accessible and clandestine area organizations. They are a awful able and accomplished ability for all phases of emergency accommodation planning and remediation. The SRI aggregation has added than 50 years acquaintance in real-world anti-terrorism and bent amends operations, administration of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, atomic (CBRNE) incidents and planning for scenarios involving weapons of accumulation abolition (WMD). SRI offers an all-encompassing ambit of ecology and operational training, abutment and logistical administration for all phases of emergency preparedness.
mySmartSimulations®, Inc.
60 Railroad Place, Suite 205
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Call
(518) 581-7999
(866) 474-7627
“mySmartSimulations has targeted 2008 to alpha acclamation the government and aggressive sectors. Our affiliation with SRI will advice us bigger accept the needs of these segments. We accept with SRI’s experience, mySmartSimulations, Inc. will access our attendance in these sectors,” said William Cornelius, President and CEO, mySmartSimulations, Inc.
“In all my years of training I accept not apparent a aggregation bigger able to bear affordable alternate simulation-based training,” said Robert Domenici of SRI, and anew appointed Chief Military Advisor at mySmartSimulations, Inc.
About mySmartSimulations®, Inc.
mySmartSim has developed an application, Worldwide Interactive Learning Designer (WILD), for creating custom alternate simulation training and chapter-based courses. This assembly apparatus allows them to advance absolutely alternate acquirements adventures consistent in bargain accountability and training costs, as able-bodied as added assimilation and productivity. mySmartSim currently uses WILD to architecture top quality, automatic activating courses and presentations for some of the better companies in the world. WILD has accustomed mySmartSim to abate the all-embracing amount and development time of bearing awful alternate custom training. mySmartSim is now alms this appliance to developers and barter common to do the same. For added information, amuse appointment www.mysmartsim.com.
About Strategic Response Initiatives, LLC
Strategic Response Initiatives (SRI), LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, serves a advanced ambit of defense, accessible and clandestine area organizations. They are a awful able and accomplished ability for all phases of emergency accommodation planning and remediation. The SRI aggregation has added than 50 years acquaintance in real-world anti-terrorism and bent amends operations, administration of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, atomic (CBRNE) incidents and planning for scenarios involving weapons of accumulation abolition (WMD). SRI offers an all-encompassing ambit of ecology and operational training, abutment and logistical administration for all phases of emergency preparedness.
mySmartSimulations®, Inc.
60 Railroad Place, Suite 205
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Call
(518) 581-7999
(866) 474-7627
First Affirmative - Global Financial Crisis Takes Center Stage at Socially Responsible Investment Industry Conference
SRI in the RockiesStore this angel in big sizeCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO—October 21, 2008— Socially amenable investment industry leaders will focus ample absorption on the all-around banking crisis at the 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference October 26-28, 2008.
A almanac 720 participants are accepted to assemble on The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, in Whistler, British Columbia. Several of the appointed appointment sessions will affection experts discussing how socially acquainted investors can advice to adapt the approaching of the all-around banking arrangement about the attempt of transparency, fairness, acceptable governance, and abiding thinking, including:
•A CEO Roundtable on Industry Trends;
•A Banking Sector console focused on Sustainable Global Finance;
•A affair on Philanthropy and Mission-Related Investing;
•An able console on the Sub-Prime Mortgage Situation;
•A roundtable altercation with International SRI Industry Leaders;
•A altercation about how astute administration of environmental, social, and babyminding (ESG) issues can abate accident and position companies to excel over the continued term; and
•A Special Session that will focus accurately on the all-around banking crisis.
“This is a different befalling for SRI leaders to strategize on amalgam the attempt of socially and environmentally amenable advance – such as amenable accumulated babyminding – into the nation’s banking basement affective forward,” said Lisa Woll, Chief Executive Officer of the Social Investment Forum (SIF).
SRI in the Rockies, a accord amid First Affirmative Financial Network and the Social Investment Forum, is the arch anniversary appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry in North America.
“The banking crisis has put a spotlight on some of the affliction practices on Wall Street, abounding of which socially acquainted investors accept formed to antidote over the years,” said George R. Gay, CEO of First Affirmative Financial Network and a Director of the Social Investment Forum. “We accept that a added socially amenable access to advance can—and should—play a role in allowance to transform the advance world.”
SRI in the Rockies takes abode adjoin the accomplishments of an industry that continues to aggrandize rapidly. According to the SIF’s “2007 Trends Report,” about one out of every nine dollars beneath able administration in the U.S. in 2007 was complex in SRI. From 2005-2007, SRI assets added added than 18 percent while the broader cosmos of professionally managed assets broadcast beneath than 3 percent.
ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM (SIF)
SIF is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.
REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.
MEDIA QUESTIONS
Morrison Shafroth for First Affirmative and SRI in the Rockies: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com; Rachel MacKnight for the Social Investment Forum: 202-872-5359 / rmacknight@socialinvest.org
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ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.
Morrison Shafroth
mshafroth@csg-pr.com
720-470-3653
5475 Mark Dabling Boulevard, Suite 108
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918 USA
A almanac 720 participants are accepted to assemble on The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, in Whistler, British Columbia. Several of the appointed appointment sessions will affection experts discussing how socially acquainted investors can advice to adapt the approaching of the all-around banking arrangement about the attempt of transparency, fairness, acceptable governance, and abiding thinking, including:
•A CEO Roundtable on Industry Trends;
•A Banking Sector console focused on Sustainable Global Finance;
•A affair on Philanthropy and Mission-Related Investing;
•An able console on the Sub-Prime Mortgage Situation;
•A roundtable altercation with International SRI Industry Leaders;
•A altercation about how astute administration of environmental, social, and babyminding (ESG) issues can abate accident and position companies to excel over the continued term; and
•A Special Session that will focus accurately on the all-around banking crisis.
“This is a different befalling for SRI leaders to strategize on amalgam the attempt of socially and environmentally amenable advance – such as amenable accumulated babyminding – into the nation’s banking basement affective forward,” said Lisa Woll, Chief Executive Officer of the Social Investment Forum (SIF).
SRI in the Rockies, a accord amid First Affirmative Financial Network and the Social Investment Forum, is the arch anniversary appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry in North America.
“The banking crisis has put a spotlight on some of the affliction practices on Wall Street, abounding of which socially acquainted investors accept formed to antidote over the years,” said George R. Gay, CEO of First Affirmative Financial Network and a Director of the Social Investment Forum. “We accept that a added socially amenable access to advance can—and should—play a role in allowance to transform the advance world.”
SRI in the Rockies takes abode adjoin the accomplishments of an industry that continues to aggrandize rapidly. According to the SIF’s “2007 Trends Report,” about one out of every nine dollars beneath able administration in the U.S. in 2007 was complex in SRI. From 2005-2007, SRI assets added added than 18 percent while the broader cosmos of professionally managed assets broadcast beneath than 3 percent.
ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM (SIF)
SIF is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.
REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.
MEDIA QUESTIONS
Morrison Shafroth for First Affirmative and SRI in the Rockies: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com; Rachel MacKnight for the Social Investment Forum: 202-872-5359 / rmacknight@socialinvest.org
# # #
ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.
Morrison Shafroth
mshafroth@csg-pr.com
720-470-3653
5475 Mark Dabling Boulevard, Suite 108
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918 USA
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