Responsible Finance Resources
The time is now to align your money with your values in all aspects of finance: banking, credit cards, insurance, and investments. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone. We have lots of resources that can help.
The time is now to align your money with your values in all aspects of finance: banking, credit cards, insurance, and investments. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone. We have lots of resources that can help.
Green America Resources
Green America has resources to help you at every stage of your journey in aligning your money with your values. You can find these resources throughout the Finance section of our website, and here.
- Looking for a mission-driven bank or credit union? Check out our Get a Better Bank Map
- Looking for a responsible credit card? Check out our Credit Card Guide
- Looking for climate-friendly home and auto insurance? Check out our Climate Smart Insurance Directory
- Want to learn the basics of investing? Check out our Investing 101 site (coming soon!)
- Want to become a shareholder advocate? Check out our latest Key Resolutions to Vote
Green America Guides
Still trying to figure out how a particular aspect of responsible finance works? Check out one of Green America’s guides:
- Our Guide to Socially Responsible Investing and Better Banking gives you practical information and steps to help you use your money to create a better world. It is updated every two years.
- Our Guide to Fossil Fuel Free Investing, co-authored with Green Century, shows you why and how to divest from fossil fuel investments and reinvest in fossil-free options.
- Our Plan for a Better Future guide, co-authored with Social(k), tells you how you can get your employer to add socially responsible options to your workplace retirement plan.
- Our Spring 2024 edition of Green American Magazine covers all aspects of making your money work for a greener world.
Green America Webinars
In Spring 2024, Green America worked with GreenFaith and Third Act Upstate New York to produce a series of Responsible Finance webinars on banking, credit cards, insurance, and investing.
All four Aligning Your Money with Your Values webinars are on the Green America YouTube Channel and can be found below.
Responsible Investing (March 13, 2024)
Better Banking (April 3, 2024)
Take Charge of Your Credit Card (April 25, 2024)
Responsible Home and Auto Insurance (May 15, 2024)
Align Your Money with Your Values Curriculum
Want to align your money with your values in all aspects of finance, but don’t want to go it alone? Form a cohort!
Pull together a group of at least four people (including yourself), and we will send you our Align Your Money with Your Values curriculum, plus our slide decks and other resources, and give you personalized advice to get you started on your responsible finance journey.
Our 12-part curriculum, created with GreenFaith and Third Act Upstate New York, will walk your group through the information, steps, and resources you need to align your money with your values in banking, credit cards, insurance, and investing. Learn more at Join a Cohort (coming soon!)
Office Hours
Getting stuck in your journey to more responsible finance? Got a nagging issue or a question you can’t find the answer to?
Our friends at This! Is What We Did offer Move Your Money Office Hours. You can sign up for a 30-minute appointment with a trained peer facilitator to ask questions and get personalized assistance in switching to a new bank or credit card. Sign up here
