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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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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Category: FSM Updates, Investing for Impact
The Franciscan Sisters of Mary and their commitment to impact investing were featured in the January 2019 issue of St. Anthony Messenger.
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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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Category: Caring for Creation, Investing for Impact
Planet Indonesia, one of FSM’s impact investing partners, announced that seven more coastal villages have pledged to join PI’s locally managed marine area agreement.
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Category: Caring for Creation, FSM Updates, Philanthropic Initiatives
Apprentices and their families gathered at EarthDance Organic Farm School Thursday, October 11, for a potluck dinner and bonfire in honor of the 2018 Farm and Garden Apprentice Graduation.
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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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Category: Caring for Creation, Philanthropic Initiatives
The Heartland Fund, a new donor collaborative that strives to help build a just, sustainable, and equitable future for the Midwest, has just announced its first round of grants to nine Midwestern initiatives. The Franciscan Sisters of Mary is one of its founding partners.
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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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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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