Aligning Your Money with Your Values
What is the impact of the choices you make with your money? Where does it come from and where does it flow to? Explore the different ways you can align your finances with your values, from banking to raising capital and day-to-day financial decisions.
Resources
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"Values are an intrinsic and significant aspect of motivation and action, which is, in turn, an essential precursor to the effective behaviors that drive your behavior as an entrepreneur. Fill out the Values Assessment Guide to give you a clear sense of your core values, as these will form the foundation for your enterprise.”
Source: Lean4Flourishing
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“The B Impact Assessment tool is a free online questionnaire that allows you to evaluate your business across five categories: governance, workers, community, the environment, and customers. Understand your strengths and potential areas of improvement, and potentially work towards B Corp Certification.”
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Is your money being used to fund climate chaos?
Banks are one of the most significant contributors to industries that damage the environment. We have the power to change our banking system and divest from projects harming the environment. Use Bank.Green to research your bank and how it ranks in defending climate change.
Expert Conversations
Hear from social educator Linda Best, Farmworks and social entrepreneur Rav Singh, Shade of Miti, as they share their experiences, expertise, tools, and resources to align your money with your values.
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Linda Best, ONS, BSc Acadia, grew up on an Annapolis Valley farm; Medical Microbiologist and Gastroenterology Researcher; former Director of Capital District Health Authority; operated an apple orchard; founded Frame Plus Art which grew to three stores. Awareness of food-related health issues led her to help establish Friends of Agriculture and to found FarmWorks Investment Co-operative Limited, a Community Economic Development Investment Fund. FarmWorks has raised over $4 M which has helped support 130 food-related businesses across Nova Scotia.
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Rav (she/her) is a young farmer and climate educator in Mississauga. She runs a food and climate justice organization called Shade of Miti where she supports sustainable food systems that are rooted in justice and sovereignty, and not threatened by climate change. As a farmer, Rav specializes in growing local and organic bitter melon, okra, and hot peppers. She has been involved in youth food policy work for the past few years, and is helping start Peel's first BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ Youth Food Circle.