E-raamat: Faithful Investing: The Power of Decisive Action and Incremental Change

JAMES W. MURPHY, a Certified Fund Raising Executive, is Managing Program Director at the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF). Active in ecumenical collaborations, he works with congregations, dioceses, and other Episcopal organizations to grow their endowments and develop their planned giving programs and various philanthropic efforts and resources. He holds a Masters in Christian Spirituality from General Theological Seminary, and a Bachelors from NYUs Stern School of Business. He is a member of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and the Philanthropic Planning Group of Greater New York (PPGGNY). He lives in New Jersey.

DONALD V. ROMANIK has been President of the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF) since 2005. Formerly, he has served as an attorney in both government and private practice and has been active in civic, charitable, and religious organizations. A strong advocate of the ministry of all the baptized, Donald frequently writes and speaks on topics relating to leadership and resource development for Episcopal organizations, working to develop new models of lay+clergy partnerships and effective leadership teams to empower future leaders for a changing church. He lives in New York.

Greg Rousos is president of New Covenant Trust Company and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Presbyterian Foundation.

Katie McCloskey is the director of social responsibility for United Church Funds, which invests on behalf of United Church of Christ churches and institutions. She has convened the Jubilee Assembly, an interfaith group of investors searching for impact investing opportunities. She lives in New York, New York. Byrd Bonner is former president of the UMC Foundation and a licensed Texas attorney in private practice in family law and child protection. He served as the president/CEO of the United Methodist Church Foundation from 2000 to 2017. Byrd served the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility as vice chair of the board of directors, and as chair of its investment committee and development committee. He remains an individual member of the Socially Responsible Investment Coalition, and chairs the board of his local United Methodist congregations foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Carsten W. Sierck, JD, is program director for endowment management, planned giving, and donor solutions at Episcopal Church Foundation. She advises churches, dioceses, schools, and church-related organizations on how to structure, manage, use, and grow their endowments.

The Rev. Séamus P. Finn, OMI, is responsible for the Faith Consistent Investing program for the Oblate Investment Pastoral Trust. He represents the Missionary Oblates (OMI) at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, where he serves as the board chair. He lives in Washington, D.C. Sister Patricia Daly, OP, is a Dominican Sister of Caldwell, New Jersey, and has worked in corporate responsibility and socially responsible investing for over forty years. After almost twenty-four years, Pat concluded her tenure as executive director of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, an organization of forty Roman Catholic Dioceses and Congregations of Women and Men primarily in the New York metropolitan area. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Mark A. Regier is vice president of Stewardship Investing, Mennonite Foundation, and Everence Financial and has been involved in the field of ethical and socially responsible investing at Everence for more than twenty years. Tim Brennan is treasurer and chief financial officer of the Unitarian Universalist Association and has served in that role since June 2006. Tim came to the UUA after seven years with Ceres, the national network of institutional investors working to advance corporate responsibility for the environment. As senior director, development and communications, he worked with major environmental organizations, religious investors, the SRI community, and major pension funds on issues such as climate change and corporate sustainability disclosure. Bobbi Hannigan served as the treasury manager at Catholic Extension, overseeing portfolios in excess of $250 million. She has been at the forefront of monitoring investment managers compliance to the Roman Catholic Churchs socially responsible investing guidelines. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Aimee Moiso is a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Rev. William Somplatsky-Jarman served as the primary staff of the Presbyterian Church (USA) faith-based investment committee for thirty-two years. During that time, he coordinated hundreds of corporate dialogues, addressed numerous stockholder meetings, and authored articles on a wide variety of socially responsible investment issues. He lives in Washington, Utah.

Joseph M. Kinard is chair of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI), which was created in 1971 to advance the churchs mission through the financial resources (approximately $10 billion dollars) entrusted to it. He lives in Rockville Center, New York.

Lisa Hinds is a senior vice president and nonprofit practice leader for a global alternative asset manager. She brings over twenty-five years of experience in client portfolio management, institutional securities trading, and investment banking. She currently serves as vice chair of the board and chair of the investment committee of United Church Funds, the institutional investment ministry of the United Church of Christ. She is a former deacon, trustee, and chair of the finance committee of The Riverside Church in the City of New York. She lives in New York City.