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John Harrington, President/CEO of Harrington Investments, will lead workshop on High Social Impact Investing at World Poverty Alleviation Summit

John Harrington, President/CEO of Harrington Investments, will lead workshop on High Social Impact Investing at World Poverty Alleviation Summit

Published 08-26-09

Submitted by Opportunity Collaboration

The Opportunity Collaboration today announced that John Harrington, President and CEO of Harrington Investments, Inc has been invited to address delegates at their upcoming poverty alleviation summit in Ixtapa Mexico. Harrington will join 250 other social venture capitalists, entrepreneurial profit and nonprofit leaders, foundation executives and other activists at a strategic summit on World Poverty Day (October 17, 2009) to create new strategies for fighting poverty.

The Opportunity Collaboration is convening the summit to respond to the current market turmoil, which is seriously hurting the world's poor due to dramatic declines in nonprofit, foundation and social venture funding.

Harrington will present a program at the summit entitled "Transitioning from Corporate Capitalism to Sustainable Living." His presentation will focus on the creation of investment vehicles for individual and institutional investors that can provide competitive returns, while maximizing social, economic and employment impacts in developed and developing countries. Such investments will target programs that help local communities develop sustainable local economies.

"I'm excited to be working with like-minded professionals who recognize the importance of targeting investments to create quality employment, community wealth and social justice," Harrington said. "Our current economy has institutionalized the inequality of wealth and income by rewarding incompetent corporate management, while draining the local economy of capital. It's time to reverse this trend and reward community economic cooperation and sustainability."

"The Opportunity Collaboration is about leveraging resources and creating influential partners," stated Collaboration CEO Jonathan C. Lewis. "Every delegate brings an important point of view to the summit and a hands-on, working solution to poverty. Harrington's work in social venture and community investing is exceptional, high-impact and compelling. John will have a unique opportunity to share insights with other delegates, but most importantly to pursue concrete actions for real solutions and new partnerships to advance economic justice."

About Harrington Investments, Inc.
Harrington Investments, Inc. (HII) is a Napa-based registered investment advisory firm and has been a leader in Socially Responsible Investing and shareholder advocacy for over 25 years. Its mission is to provide highly personalized asset management services that reflect a commitment to superior financial results, while investing in companies committed to positive environmental, ethical and social change.

About John Harrington
John Harrington is President/CEO of Harrington Investment Inc. He has been involved with Socially Responsible Investing for 35 years and was a founder of Working Assets Money Fund, Progressive Asset Management, Waterhealth International, Global Partners LLC, Community Commercial Ventures, LLC and several other socially and environmentally-oriented companies. He is the author of Investing With Your Conscience and The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing and Democracy. He was recently awarded an MA Degree in Humanities with an emphasis in Philosophy. Following the publication of his master's thesis "The Morality of Materialistic Self-Interest, the Corporation and the State," he was accepted as a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

About the Opportunity Collaboration
Form October 17-20, 2009, the Opportunity Collaboration is bringing together leaders from all over the world to leverage resources and create new alliances in the fight against poverty. A strategic networking summit of social investors/social ventures, entrepreneurial nonprofit leaders, foundation trustees/executives, policy thought leaders and agents of change. An impartial, non-aligned forum, Opportunity Collaboration uses the power of connection and community to create economic justice and alleviate poverty.

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A four-day problem-solving, strategic retreat for nonprofit leaders, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers and social investors engaged in poverty alleviation and economic justice enterprises. On World Poverty Day, leverage resources, combine forces, share innovations and operate more effectively. Break down the silos of unproductive competition and go beyond the boundaries of conventional poverty alleviation.

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