Responsible Finance Resources
The time is now to align your money with your values in all aspects of finance: banking, credit cards, insurance, and investments. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone. We have lots of resources that can help.
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The time is now to align your money with your values in all aspects of finance: banking, credit cards, insurance, and investments. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone. We have lots of resources that can help.
Green America Resources
Green America has resources to help you at every stage of your journey in aligning your money with your values. You can find these resources throughout the Finance section of our website, and here.
- Looking for a mission-driven bank or credit union? Check out our Get a Better Bank map
- Looking for a better credit card? Check out our Responsible Credit Card Guide, co-authored with Third Act Upstate New York
- Looking for climate-friendly home and auto insurance? Check out our Climate Smart Insurance Directory, created with Rivers and Mountains GreenFaith
- Want to learn the basics of investing? Check out our Invest In My Future minisite for beginners
- Want to become a shareholder advocate? Check out our latest Key Resolutions to Vote
Green America guides
Still trying to figure out how a particular aspect of responsible finance works? Check out one of Green America’s guides:
- Our Guide to Socially Responsible Investing and Better Banking gives you practical information and steps to help you use your money to create a better world. It is updated every two years.
- Our Sustainable Investing Guide, co-authored with Green Century, shows you why and how to divest from fossil fuel investments and reinvest in fossil-free options.
- Our Plan for a Better Future guide, co-authored with Social(k), tells you how employers and employees can add socially responsible options to a workplace retirement plan.
- Our Spring 2024 edition of Green American Magazine covers all aspects of making your money work for a greener world.
Green America webinars
The Responsible Finance team regularly collaborates with other organizations to produce webinars on better banking, credit cards, property insurance, and investing, including in retirement funds. These webinars show how you can align your money with your values in all aspects of personal finance.
Past Responsible Finance webinars can be found on the Green America YouTube Channel and below.
Investing Your Retirement Plan in a Climate Safe Future, with Stand.earth, As You Sow, and Sphere 500 (October 14, 2025)
Home, Renters, and Auto Insurance Action Hour, with Third Act Upstate New York (October 6, 2025)
Greening Your Finances: Encore Edition, with Green Century and Frontier Group (September 25, 2025)
Banking for Good: How Your Bank or Credit Union Has Impact, with Hip Hop Caucus, Beneficial State Bank, Self-Help Federal Credit Union, and Adelphi Bank (September 3, 2025)
Greening Your Finances, with Green Century and Frontier Group (April 1, 2025)
Responsible Home and Auto Insurance, with Insure Our Future, GreenFaith, and Third Act Upstate New York (May 15, 2024)
Take Charge of Your Credit Card, with GreenFaith and Third Act Upstate New York (April 25, 2024)
Better Banking, with Hip Hop Caucus, GreenFaith, and Upstate New York (April 3, 2024)
Responsible Investing, with US Sustainable Investment Forum, GreenFaith, and Third Act Upstate New York (March 13, 2024)
Align Your Money with Your Values Curriculum
Want to align your money with your values in all aspects of finance, but don’t want to go it alone? Form a cohort!
Pull together a group of at least four people (including yourself), and we will send you our Align Your Money with Your Values curriculum, plus our slide decks and other resources, and give you personalized advice to get you started on your responsible finance journey.
Our 12-part curriculum, created with GreenFaith and Third Act Upstate New York, will walk your group through the information, steps, and resources you need to align your money with your values in banking, credit cards, insurance, and investing. Learn more at Join a Cohort (coming soon!)
Office Hours
Getting stuck in your journey to more responsible finance? Got a nagging issue or a question you can’t find the answer to?
Our friends at This! Is What We Did offer Move Your Money Office Hours. You can sign up for a 30-minute appointment with a trained peer facilitator to ask questions and get personalized assistance in switching to a new bank or credit card. Sign up here
