CMSM Webinar: Toward a More Just Economic System

Sept. 6, 2016 Our common home includes a global economy characterized by new risks, new demands for products and services, new technology, and new inter-dependencies. Within this context, access to water, food, housing, education, health care, financial services and energy are examples of corporeal needs placing increasing stress on finite natural resources. An array of social innovations, which have been primarily secular, leverage market economies towards addressing these societal issues. The emerging approach represents a paradigm shift in which these social innovations, such as social entrepreneurship, benefit corporations, and impact investing are maturing from point solutions to a given problem, and towards robust institutional-grade mechanisms for coping with scarcity. Based firmly on the rich tradition of Catholic Social Teaching, we continue our work for the most vulnerable; and with new methods by which to assist those in most need. Speakers: Dale Fickett: Dale is a Board Member at the Virginia Catholic Conference and Executive Director of RVA Works, a public-nonprofit partnership building an inclusive environment for entrepreneurship in Richmond, VA. Within the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Richmond, VA), Dale served as Chairman of the Social Justice Committee; and currently serves as the Chairman of the Haiti Committee - coordinating parish efforts to address homelessness , hunger, and livelihoods. His developmental economics work with Trinity College, Dublin and the Wharton School has been focused on poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa; and he has served on the U.S. Senate Small Business Productivity & Quality Award Committee, the Social Enterprise & Impact Investing Working Group of the Secretary of Commerce & Trade for Virginia, and the Board of the Virginia Business Incubation Association. Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI: is Chief of Faith Consistent Investing for the Oblate International Pastoral (OIP) Investment Trust www.oiptrust.org and remains as a consultant to the Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation office of his congregation. He is an international leader in faith consistent and socially responsible investing and has participated in four Vatican sponsored events on responsible investing and corporate social responsibility. He serves as Chair of the Board of Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), www.ICCR.org . Séamus actively engages corporations in the financial and extractives sectors, as well as multinationals on labor and supply chain issues. Seamus has given numerous presentations in different venues on faith consistent investing and corporate social responsibility. He has been interviewed for print and radio shows and has appeared on a number of TV shows, including Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, CBS, PBS, Al Jazeera America, RTE and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He blogs occasionally for the Huffingtonpost.com CMSM provides a voice for these communities in U.S. church and society. CMSM also collaborates with the U.S. bishops and other key groups and organizations that serve church and society.