Episode Six

Nun Money

Godmother of Community Development Finance

Episode Summary —

How did a group of nuns become pioneers for socially minded investments?

Sister Corinne Florek, Executive Director of the Religious Communities Impact Fund and a member of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, is referred to as “the godmother of Community Development Financial Institutions.” She has been doing what we today call social impact investing since the early 1970s. Learn how investment and enterprise can be a faithful way of pursuing the Call to Shalom.

 

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Part 1 — About the Sisters

The Adrian Dominican Sisters

Part 2 — Sister Corinne

Community Development Finance

Part 3 — What about charity?

Is Giving Loans Christian?

Guest

Joining host Josh Yates this episode is Sister Corinne Florek.

 

  • Sister Corinne Florek is an Adrian Dominican Sister and the Executive Director of the Religious Communities Investment Fund. She is often called the Godmother of Community Development Financial Institutiions.

 
 
 

"Money is a means to foster the unity that we believe we have as Christians because we are all made in God's image and likeness."

 
 
 
 
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