The Mission (and Power) of Money: Change the World Through Your Investments
The Caldwell College Department of Theology/Philosophy sponsored a presentation with Sister Patricia Daly, O.P. on The Mission (and Power) of Money: Change the World Through Your Investments on Thursday, March 13.
Sister Patricia Daly is a Dominican Sister of Caldwell, NJ and has worked in Corporate Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investing for 30 years. She serves as the Executive Director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, an organization of 40 Roman Catholic Dioceses and Congregations of Women and Men in the NY metropolitan area. Sister Pat represents these institutional investors to the national Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility: 275 Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organizations holding more than $120 billion in investments. Pat is also the Corporate Responsibility Representative for the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, NJ and consults for the American Baptist Churches and the Fetzer Institute in their Socially Responsible Investment Program.
Over the years Sister Pat has worked with companies on issues of human rights, labor, ecological concerns, militarism, equality, health and tobacco, and international debt and capital flows. Sister Pat has played a role in forcing General Electric to clean-up the PCB contamination of the Hudson River, positioning the agenda of global warming into the priorities of Corporate America, and is a founder of Campaign ExxonMobil: calling this oil giant to task on matters related to climate change.
Sister Pat has worked to encourage investors to participate in the work of their companies and continues to mentor people in effective strategies for systemic change. She has lectured internationally and has been featured in a variety of news outlets including The New York Times, CNN, 60 Minutes, The Star Ledger and NPR.