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NEW YORK, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Investors led by Justice Capital are responding to the Biden/Harris administration initiatives by making a historic move of their own: they are making an unprecedented commitment to fund and support the most effective models of public health, safety, and climate-resilient infrastructure led by Black, brown, Indigenous and front-line communities. The new efforts will dovetail with the administration s $5 billion investment in community-led public health and safety programs and its
Justice40 Initiative. The Justice40 Initiative directs 40% of the benefits of federal climate spending to disadvantaged communities places that have been disinvested in for decades, but which are still innovating and creating solutions that can work for all people.
Why It Matters: Barclays Withdraws from a Prison Financing Deal
May 10, 2021
Last month the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) and Social Venture Circle (SVC) announced that we terminated the membership of and were refunding dues paid by Barclays. This was first-of-its-kind decision for our organizations and one we did not take lightly. This resulted from Barclays’ decision to participate in a prison financing deal in Alabama, which violates our membership criteria by making investments that perpetuate systemic racism and inequity, instead of driving positive change.
Barclays may have viewed their role as underwriting the deal as separate from their direct investment in the prison construction or operations; nevertheless, for us, our membership, and the values on which we advocate, we did not distinguish the difference as meaningful. Regardless of any distinction, the outcome of the deal was to be more investment in an unjust incarceration system. Meanwhile, we advoca