April 20, 2020
Advancing Reconciliation in Canada: A Guide for Investors
This guide helps investment organizations across Canada to think about the role that they can play to advance reconciliation.
Read MoreOptions for Getting Involved
The RRII offers three primary pathways for getting involved, depending on the level of commitment you are looking to make.
Shareholder Engagement
Engagement has a track record of tangible and effective change, as it targets corporate concerns at the root of the issue and uses financial investments as leverage for change.
Tailored Education and Support
The RRII can provide tailored education sessions and resources to help your organization better understand and support reconciliation efforts.
Timely Research and Guides
The RRII conducts and produces timely research on reconciliation and investment in Canada and abroad.
How can your investments progress reconciliation?
The RRII works with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations to create meaningful shareholder engagement campaigns.
With a lens of reconciliation and social justice, we work with allied institutional investors and service providers to develop a clear vision, framework and strategy for responsible investment, ensuring that your goals and projects are grounded in the Truth and Reconciliation calls to action.
Shareholder engagement involves connecting and conversing with companies in your portfolio to advocate for improved corporate policies and practices. As an allied organization, your voice can help further amplify calls from Indigenous trusts and organizations, or set additional goals and milestones for reconciliation.
Our Engagement Collaborators
Our engagement offerings are hosted together with SHARE—Shareholder Association for Research and Education.
SHARE is a leading responsible investing organization that works with institutional investors to steward their assets in ways that contribute to positive social and environmental outcomes.
SHARE’s engagement services have a track record of leading change by developing new areas of research and engagement, including workers’ rights, climate action, reconciliation and affordable housing.
With support from SHARE, the Values in Action program introdces allied investors to a network that regularly engages with Canadian companies on improving their environmental, social, and governance practices, including those related to reconciliation.
“We expect governments and politicians to resolve issues like Indigenous exclusion. However, power in our society is more often than not an economic issue. Throughout history, excluded communities have gained inclusion through economic empowerment, not just political empowerment.”
Kevin Thomas, CEO, SHARE & RRII Collaborator
Our educational offerings are developed in consultation with Indigenous organizations and communities. These can be tailored to suit your organizational needs.
Board and Investment Committee Education
Customized educational workshops on responsible investment governance and implementation, designed with Indigenous values.
Strategy and Policy Development
Our team of experienced and knowledgable experts will help you develop responsible investment policies and implement meaningful strategies.
Responsible Investment Officer with Reconciliation Training
Increase your capacity to effectively oversee your fund’s approach to responsible investment with an independent expert, educated and experienced with reconciliation actions.
Interested in learning more about investor action for reconciliation? Explore our investor resources.
September 25, 2020
Discussion Paper: Teachings of Sustainability, Stewardship, & Responsibility
This discussion paper explores Indigenous teachings of sustainability, stewardship, and responsibility, unearthing critical insights for ensuring the effective stewardship of Indigenous peoples’ collective wealth.
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July 9, 2021
All Hands On Deck: Opportunities for Investment Management Firms to Advance Reconciliation
With input from 48 Canadian investment managers and advisors, RRII developed a framework to describe actions that investment managers can take to advance reconciliation and Indigenous rights recognition.
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March 30, 2022
Reconciliation Action Plans 101: Roadmaps to Economic Reconciliation
What is a RAP, and why do they matter to institutional investors? Hear from experts and peers on Reconciliation Action Plans, and the steps they are taking to move from talk to action in advancing Indigenous economic reconciliation.
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March 30, 2022
2022 SHARE Investor Summit: Reconciliation and Corporate Canada
Creative leadership is bringing together Indigenous organizations, businesses, and governments alongside non-Indigenous business leaders to re-think how we build an economic future together. In this webinar, we bring business leaders together to discuss what’s next and how investors can be part of the solution.
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