Money and Meaning: Combining Faith and Enterprise in Atlanta

Money and Meaning: Combining Faith and Enterprise

How do we align our job, our finances, our community, and our faith? Money and Meaning is a half-day session that seeks to help answer that question.

We're bringing together a group of people who seek to combine what they believe with how they earn and spend their money, merging daily economic transactions with "God's economy." Come join a group of people who see the intersection of money and meaning as imperative to building good business and a strong community, and hear from entrepreneurs and investors who are using their talents--both financial and spiritual--to feed the world.

Moderated by Joy Anderson, president of the Criterion Institute and head of the Church as an Economic Being initiative, we'll discuss efforts already underway, including a small microloan program run out of Kairos Church in South Atlanta, a values-driven startup organization increasing the income of people living in poverty in Nicaragua, and institutional efforts by churches to investing pension funds in ways that better reflect their values. And we want to hear from you also!

Confirmed speakers include:

• Joy Anderson, President, Criterion Institute; founder, Church as an Economic Being initiative
• Bryce Butler, impact investor, Blue Sky Foundation; former Executive Pastor, Sojourn Community Church
• Rosa Lee Harden, co-founder, Social Capital Markets; Priest, Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville, North Carolina
• Neil Paine, founder and CEO, Chaka Marketbridge

Money and Meaning is part of Impact Investing in Action, a conference hosted by Village Capital, Agora Partnerships, and Goizueta Business School at Emory University. The four-day conference, held from May 22-25, explores entrepreneurs and investors who are using innovative business models to solve problems related to poverty and environmental sustainability. Come hear from 25 entrepreneurs in Atlanta and Central America, as well as investors across the world. Impact Investing in Action is an initiative jointly sponsored by the Hub-Atlanta, RSF Social Finance, the Foundation Center-Atlanta, Stites and Harbison, Pomona Impact, LearnitLive, and Endive.Visit this link to register for the conference or email Ross Baird at ross@vilcap.com for more details if you're interested. Conference attendees do not need to pay separately for this event.The event starts at 9:00 AM at Goizueta Business School, Emory University. Check this page; we'll post the room as soon as we have it. Breakfast provided.

Categories: Sales & Retail | Religion & Spirituality

Added: May 3, 2012 at 11:10 PM // Last Modified: May 18, 2012 at 12:36 PM