Posts tagged prison free funds
How To Comfortably Retire Without Private Prison Investing

The term "Prison Free" may mean different things to different people. As You Sow’s Prison Free Funds provides a range, with the lowest grades going to private prison operators. They then calculate the percentage of holdings of support companies including suppliers of food, laundry, IT, power, banking, and other services and products needed to run the prison industry and the militarization of borders and immigration policing.  Read More →

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As new signs of climate change emerge, here’s how you can invest in companies and funds that keep the environment safe

As You Sow, a non-profit focusing on corporate social responsibility, offers an online tool that compares where funds rank with regard to criteria such as deforestation, fossil fuels, gender equality, guns, weapons, tobacco and prisons. Read More →

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Is This The Beginning Of The End For Private Prisons? The Market Seems To Think So

Particularly in the wake of the nation’s renewed attempts to reckon with racial justice, there has been a greater awareness about the power of money to make social change. Resources like As You Sow’s Prison Free Funds tool are now publicly available, to help individuals “find out if your money is invested in” economic systems like “the prison industrial complex, exploitative prison labor, and immigration detention centers.” Read More →

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