Amy Domini

Last updated 6/14/2007 4:29 pm

Amy Domini is Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments. She is widely recognized as the leading voice for socially responsible investing. In 2005, Time magazine named her to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.Also in 2005, President Clinton honored her at the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative for helping protect children and the environment through the Domini Fund for International Giving. In 2006, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree from Northeastern University College of Law.

Ms. Domini is the author of Socially Responsible Investing: Making a Difference and Making Money (Dearborn Trade, 2001) and The Challenges of Wealth (Dow Jones Irwin, 1988), and a coauthor of Investing for Good (Harper Collins, 1993), The Social Investment Almanac (Henry Holt, 1992), and Ethical Investing (Addison-Wesley, 1984). She is a frequent guest commentator on CNBC’s Talking Stocks and various other radio and television shows.

Ms. Domini is a past board member of the Church Pension Fund of the Episcopal Church in America; the National Association of Community Development Loan Funds, an organization whose members work to create funds for grassroots economic development loans; and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the major sponsor of shareholder actions. She is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Ms. Domini holds a B.A. in international and comparative studies from Boston University, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

MY MAGAZINE ARTICLES:
August 2009 issue

The first rule of social investing—do no harm.

June/July 2009 issue

Taking action against predatory credit card practices.

May 2009 issue

Why full disclosure is crucial to measuring a company’s environmental and social impact.

April 2009 issue

Four things President Obama could do to create a sense of social responsibility in the financial markets.

March 2009 issue

Social entrepreneurs see the economic upheaval as a chance to go mainstream.

December 2008 issue

Meeting the challenge of the global climate crisis isn’t impossible if we start investing in innovative green companies.

111 november 2008 issue

Sociale kredietinstellingen kunnen het leed van de kredietcrisis verzachten.

November 2008 issue

Community financial institutions can help take the edge off the credit crisis.

October 2008 issue

What the subprime crisis tells us about the importance of community financial institutions.