Terry Mollner delivered some closing remarks after the conference to add context and round out the presentations.
Terry was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of socially responsible investing. In the mid-1970s, Robert Swann and he founded the Institute for Community Economics, Inc. that created the first modern think tank on socially responsible investing. Terry led a group of fifteen leaders from around the country in writing the social screens which are one of the basis for all progressive social screens to this day and which also led to the creation of the Calvert Family of Social Investment Funds of which Terry was also one of the founders and is still a board member.
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