National Catholic Reporter article featuring John O’Shaughnessy
Category: Caring for Creation, Investing for Impact
“Inside the Campaign to Divest the Catholic Church from Fossil Fuels” – click HERE to read the article.
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Mission and Focus Team is Hiring!
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Investing for Impact, Philanthropic Initiatives
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary’s Mission and Focus Team is looking for a Program Manager. This position supports the continued development and implementation of the congregation’s Mission and Focus, including its philanthropy. The Program Manager builds trusted partnerships with grantee organizations and helps to make funding recommendations, uses FSM’s voice and presence to cultivate and…
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Our Presence and Prayer Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Philanthropic Initiatives
Presence is a word we use often as FSM. It is at the center of our mission – to be the presence of the loving, serving, compassionate, healing Jesus. In this time when we cannot be physically present with one another, it is especially important to remember what presence means to us: presence is a…
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Greta Thunberg Meets Pope Francis
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
On Wednesday, April 17, 2019, two climate superheroes—Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg—agreed to continue the work of fighting climate change.
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Cairns at the Confluence
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
Seven Franciscan Sisters of Mary attended the “Cairns at the Confluence Reception” Sunday afternoon, March 24, at the Bonsack Gallery of John Burroughs School in Ladue.
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FSM Presents the Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment at Washington Conference
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Investing for Impact, Philanthropic Initiatives
At the Catholic Divestment Conference, FSM’s CEO and CFO John O’Shaughnessy presented the financial case for divestment from fossil fuels for Catholic organizations.
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FSM Takes Part in Youth Climate Strike
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Investing for Impact, Philanthropic Initiatives
On Friday, March 15, 2019, St. Louisans joined people in more than a hundred countries in the Youth Climate Strike.
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Knowing Our Place: A Region between Rivers
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary Focus Implementation Group is presenting a program about knowing our place in a region of rivers—both a celebration of our locale and a call for protecting our water-rich region.
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FSM Receives Excellence in Innovation Award
Category: Caring for Creation, Investing for Impact, Philanthropic Initiatives
On January 25, 2019, the Franciscan Sisters of Mary were honored with Gateway Center for Giving’s Excellence in Innovation Award “for its commitment to impact investments that generate positive environmental and social benefits and align with the organization’s values.”
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Why Faith-Based Organizations Are Shifting to Impact Investing
Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Investing for Impact
John O’Shaughnessy, CEO and CFO for the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, was featured in the podcast “Why Faith-Based Organizations Are Shifting to Impact Investing,” part of the “From Back Street to Wall Street” podcast series produced by Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and Knowledge@Wharton through the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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