Mission and Focus

Why Faith-Based Organizations Are Shifting to Impact Investing

Posted by Franciscan Sisters of Mary

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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Mission and Focus

A Resolution on West Lake

Posted by Franciscan Sisters of Mary

Category: Caring for Creation, West Lake Landfill

The Franciscan Sisters of Mary are grateful for the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to move forward on their latest proposal to clean up the radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill. The proposed schedule of four and a half years provides a light at the end of a tunnel that has stretched on for decades. It…

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Investing for Global Impact

Posted by Franciscan Sisters of Mary

Category: FSM Updates

FSM CEO John O’Shaughnessy joined other impact investing leaders in a breakfast panel discussion at the Investing for Global Impact event on September 6 at the Baumhart Center of Social Enterprise and Responsibility at the Loyola University—Chicago.

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The FSM Pray for the Children and Parents Separated at the Border

Posted by Franciscan Sisters of Mary

Category: FSM Updates

As an order of Catholic Sisters who have devoted our lives to nurturing the health and well-being of others—particularly women and children—we, the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, are distressed beyond words at the cruelty taking place at our borders. We condemn in the strongest terms the bullying of defenseless children and parents that has taken…

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