Philanthropic Giving
Ethinvest is committed to promoting and upholding responsible environmental, social and corporate governance, philanthropy and shareholder advocacy as a powerful way to effect positive change.
Supporting philanthropy was a founding goal of Ethinvest. We donate to a range of charities that align with our investment principles for a safe and clean climate and environment and human equality for all. We also assist a range of not-for-profits, charities, foundations and various organisations to invest their funds for long-term benefit and meaningful impact.
The Ethinvest team also assists our clients to structure their giving, select the most appropriate charities and ensure donations and investments are strategically aligned.
To further these efforts, we established the Ethinvest Foundation in 2006 to support our own giving and donate at least 30% of company profits to the foundation annually. In 2014, we established the Community Impact Foundation, a public ancillary fund, to assist our clients to give easily and impactfully.
For a full list of philanthropic client service, including give for impact, family giving and bequests click here.
Community Impact Foundation
The Community Impact Foundation provides clients opportunity to create their own personally-named Giving Fund.
With an initial tax-deductible gift of $50,000, a Giving Fund offers a structured approach to charitable giving with the corpus managed by Ethinvest and invested in a portfolio that is ethically aligned.
To date, the Community Impact Foundation has over 70 Giving Funds and has already donated over $15 million to more than 250 charities from climate and environmental protection to eliminating poverty and supporting women and First Nations communities.
For more information, please contact us or visit the Community Impact Foundation website.
Ethinvest Foundation
Established in 2006 by our founder, Ross Knowles, the Ethinvest Foundation, originally named the Ross Knowles Foundation, was created to support charities working to protect the Australian environment, address the escalating threat of climate change and alleviate poverty.
To date, the Ethinvest Foundation has donated over $4 million to Australian charities.
The Ethinvest Foundation’s corpus is invested in ethical and impact investments including renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, recycling, the circular economy and social infrastructure.
To learn more, please contact us or visit the Ethinvest Foundation website.