Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

​Acre’s Harco J. Leertouwer recently spoke with Het Financieele Dagblad regarding the rapidly increasing need for banks and financial institutions to hire climate experts.

KeyBank is investing $200,000 to help Young Women's Christian Association of Rochester and Monroe County (YWCA) expand efforts to help homeless women and families find appropriate housing and improve financial stability. YWCA has been providing safe, quality housing to women.

What if there was a global capital market that accelerated universal access to safe water and sanitation?

Principal Financial Group® has released its second Principal Sustainable Financing Report to highlight the proceeds allocated to eligible green and social assets from the issuance of the company’s $600 million sustainability bond in August 2021.

KeyBank provided a $36.3 million for the new construction of Elevate at Aurora, a 137-unit family project in Aurora, CO. KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) provided $30 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit.

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) provided $17.1 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) equity and a $24.1 million permanent loan through the Fannie Mae forward MBS Tax-Exempt Bond (MTEB) program.

Whole Planet Foundation is proud to showcase top donating brands that support microentrepreneurs in our global communities through Whole Planet Foundation. 

To help support the development of environmental, open space and resiliency projects across the District of Columbia and Maryland communities, Pepco and Sustainable Maryland announced the nine recipients of the 2023 Sustainable Communities Grants Program.

Maine, with nearly 3,400 miles of coastline and over 2,000 coastal islands, is inextricably tied to the sea. The Gulf of Maine has long supplied Mainers with both livelihoods and food but is one of the fastest warming bodies of water on the globe.

Climate change is traditionally regarded as an environmental issue. But climate change also threatens human rights, with material implications for investors.