Resources

This page contains links to various resources relevant to investing, hedging, financial planning, socially responsible investing, philanthropies, and other cool stuff.

 General Investing

• Investopedia (www.investopedia.com) is an excellent resource for explaining most financial terms
• 529 college savings plans (www.savingforcollege.com)
• Online Financial Tools, interst rate comparisons and calculators (www.bankrate.com)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (www.fdic.gov)
• Securities Investor Protection Corporation (www.sipc.gov)

Passive Index Investing

• Vanguard - www.vanguard.com
• Dimensional Funds - www.dfaus.com

Retirement Accounts

• personal or business (http://www.irs.gov/retirement/article/0,,id=178044,00.html)

Socially Responsible Investing - SRI

• Calvert Social Investment Funds (www.calvert.com)
• TIAA-CREF (www.tiaacref.org)
• Social Investment Forum (www.sif.org), a leading SRI industry association
• SocialFunds (www.socialfunds.com), a leading website e-zine on SRI
• Green Money Journal (www.greenmoneyjournal.com), a leading website e-zine on SRI
• Investors Circle (www.investorscircle.net)

Hedging/Options

• The Options Industry Council (www.888options.com), an industry association with good education section
• The Chicago Board of Options Exchange (www.cboe.com), a leading option exchange with good education area
• Gargoyle Strategic Advisors (www.gargoylestrategic.com), a leader in hedging institutional investors

CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility

• CSRwire (www.csrwire.com), is a newswire dedicated to issues of corporate social responsibility
• B Corporation (www.bcorporation.net)
• Social Venture Network (SVN) (www.svn.org)
• Corporation 2020 (www.corporation2020.org)
• Sea Change Media (www.cchange.net) Sea Change Radio is a show and podcast with the mission of making connections to the shift toward social, environmental, and economic sustainability
• BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (www.livingeconomies.org), has a local affiliate in Western MA: www.pvlocalfirst.org.

Philanthropy/Non-Profit

• The Trusteeship Institute (www.trusteeship.org)
• The Aspen Institute - The Aspen Institute mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. (www.aspeninstitute.org)
• Amherst Survival Center (www.people.umass.edu/support/asc/)
• Family Outreach of Amherst a division of the Center for Human Development (www.famoutreach.org)