Our Articles

Race in Finance – Making Black Lives Matter in Financial Services

Installment 5: How to Advance Racial & Economic Justice with Municipal Bonds

Nov 10, 2020 | Race in Finance
An Interview with Rachel J. Robasciotti, Founder & CEO of Adasina Social Capital and Ryan Bowers, Co-Founder of Activest This article is part five of a series about race and racism in financial services. The ...

Race in Finance – Making Black Lives Matter in Financial Services

Installment 4: Is Your Financial Advisor Working Against Systemic Racism?

Sep 18, 2020 | Race in Finance
At Adasina, all of our work is done in community, including with communities inside of the investment and financial world. Today, I’m happy to showcase the work of two of our finance community members, Kamila McDonnough, ...

Race in Finance – Making Black Lives Matter in Financial Services

Installment 3: Looking Outside of Finance for Answers on Race

Aug 13, 2020 | Race in Finance
By: Rachel J. Robasciotti, Founder, Robasciotti & Philipson This article is part three of a series about race and racism in financial services. The full series can be read here.   Impact investors focused on ...

Race in Finance – Making Black Lives Matter in Financial Services

Installment 2: Do our investment defaults fund systemic racism?

Jul 29, 2020 | Race in Finance
By: Rachel J. Robasciotti, Robasciotti & Philipson and Sonya Dreizler, Consultant  This article is part two of a series about race and racism in financial services. The full series can be read here.     ...

Race in Finance – Making Black Lives Matter in Financial Services

Installment 1: Reckoning With Our History

Jul 24, 2020 | Race in Finance
Written by Renee Morgan, Social Justice Strategist This article is part one of a series about race and racism in financial services. The full series can be read here.   The United States is reckoning ...

Stop Funding Systemic Racism. This List Can Help.

Jun 5, 2020
Want to work for racial justice? Organize, protest, vote, and spend with intention. And stop giving your investment dollars to companies that exacerbate racial inequities. When publicly traded companies employ these practices, the repercussions extend ...

How To Support Impacted Communities During COVID-19

May 22, 2020
In this heartbreaking moment, we are seeing the COVID-19 crisis amplifying many of the wealth and health disparities that we know exist within our communities. Across the country, Black, Indigenous and Latino populations are contracting ...

The Enormous Opportunity of This Moment

May 14, 2020
The health, social and financial effects of the coronavirus have been devastating to individuals and communities, particularly Black and brown communities, around the globe. We’ve seen hundreds of thousands of deaths, closed businesses, and US ...

3 Questions Investors with Social Justice Values Should Ask Their Advisor

Mar 3, 2020
As sustainable and impact investing become more commonplace, more investors are seeking investments that reflect their personal values, and products and services are coming to market to meet that demand. Those products and services have ...

Investing at the Intersection of Racial Justice & Climate Change

Dec 19, 2019
Over the prior nine months, we initiated multiple convenings of the Adasina Community to learn how best to invest at the intersection of racial justice and climate change. We lifted up the voices of leaders ...

I Spoke Out to Expose an Abuse of Power: A Note from our Founder, Rachel J. Robasciotti

Oct 14, 2019
Last week I was invited to speak at a conference for CEOs and executives in the financial services industry. At the conference, Ken Fisher, founder of the second-largest firm in our industry and manager of ...

Force the Issue Leads on Ending Sexual Harassment at Work

Sep 18, 2019
We’re happy to share an update on a project that Robasciotti & Philipson and Adasina Social Capital have been working on: the Force the Issue campaign and database documenting sexual harassment policies at major publicly ...

Our Videos

Using Municipal Bonds to Advance Racial Justice

November 2020

In this virtual event, Adasina Social Capital explores the newly launched Fiscal Justice Investment Strategy, which aims to advance racial and economic justice by investing directly in Black communities across the United States via municipal bonds.

Adasina Community Gathering – June 2020

June 2020

Adasina Community Gathering 4/2/20

April 2020

The Opportunity of This Moment: Reflections on the COVID Crisis

April 2020

Rachel Robasciotti speaks to the opportunity in the COVID-19 crisis during a virtual Community Gathering on 4/2/20

Racial Justice Investing via R&P

June 2019

Explore the Adasina Racial Justice screen and learn how systemic racism has shaped the current landscape for racial justice investing.

Build a Diverse Team in Financial Services

April 2019

“Diversity in the workplace doesn’t happen by accident, it happens by intention.” Learn how we built a diverse team in financial services.

Robasciotti & Philipson Forum Follow-up

December 2018

Learn what R&P is doing to support the #MeToo movement and workplace safety for women.

 

New Research on Gender Equity

November 2018

Discover what makes a company good for women. Rachel interviews Sandy Maro Hunt on her groundbreaking research released at the first global Gender-Smart Investing Summit in London.

How Robasciotti & Philipson Supports Gun Control

September 2018

Learn how R&P created a community-developed social screen to support the gun control movement.

 

Political Giving that Works

June 2018

Learn how to engage in powerful political giving that resources women and communities of color! This video highlights new strategies that leverage the power of these communities to turnout…