Mission Responsibility Through Investment Archives

Environmental justice and COVID-19 come together in CPJ Day webinar

Posted April 27th, 2020

Environmental justice organizer Emma Lockridge started off her Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Day talk telling viewers how COVID-19 looks in her South Detroit neighborhood.

MRTI Releases 2020 Shareholder Resolutions Directory with Proxy Voting Recommendations

Posted April 21st, 2020

The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board has approved this year’s proxy voting guide from the Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A).

Book on ‘faithful investing’ features MRTI committee chair Joseph Kinard

Posted February 10th, 2020

When Joseph Kinard talks about the need for socially responsible investing by faith communities, he likes to refer back to the Matthew 25 story in which Jesus talks about the importance of caring for “the least of these.”

Board of Pensions is now an investor signatory of Climate Action 100+

Posted August 7th, 2019

The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) announced Wednesay that it is now an investor signatory of Climate Action 100+. The Board joins the church committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) as one of more than 320 investor signatories from dozens of countries that manage assets totaling more than $33 trillion.

A poverty talk rich with ideas

Posted March 29th, 2019

With eradicating systemic poverty as one of the three goals of the Matthew 25 invitation, Presbyterian Mission Agency Board members took two hours Thursday to hear from a panel what’s being done about it and, around round tables, to discuss poverty’s implications and challenges for congregations, mid councils and other groups.

Walk for a Fossil Free World reaches halfway point to St. Louis

Posted June 11th, 2018

Despite some heat, a few blisters and at least one case of poison ivy, participants in the PC(USA) Walk for a Fossil Free World are encouraged as they enter the final days of their trek to St. Louis. The walk, a joint project of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Fossil Free PCUSA, began June 1 at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville. It ends June 16 at the start of the 223rd General Assembly.

Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment invests in shareholder advocacy

Posted June 7th, 2018

Presbyterian News Service recently submitted questions to Joseph Kinaird, chair of the Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) about the upcoming General Assembly in St. Louis and its continuous discussions with the fossil fuel industry.

Presbyterians begin 260-mile walk to the 223rd General Assembly in St. Louis

Posted June 1st, 2018

With gray and overcast skies above them, a group of 25 to 30 people gathered at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville on Friday morning to begin a two-week trek to St. Louis on foot. The PC(USA) Walk for a Fossil Free World is a joint project of both the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Fossil Free PCUSA to stand against investment in the fossil fuel industry.

Mission Responsibility Through Investment makes headway with Houston-based oil company

Posted May 23rd, 2018

It’s another major crack in the ceiling. That’s how Rob Fohr, director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Office of Faith-Based Investing, describes progress with Noble Energy Corporation of Houston. Fohr presented a shareholder resolution last month that called for a climate change scenario analysis. This continues the momentum from the 2017 proxy season, which saw record high votes on climate change resolutions including one at ExxonMobil that received 62 percent of the shareholder vote.

Mission Responsibility Through Investment prepares for 223rd General Assembly

Posted May 7th, 2018

The Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) is making final preparations for its recommendations to the 223rd General Assembly. MRTI is a three-agency committee that implements the General Assembly’s policies on faith-based investing.