Staff
Terry Mollner
Chair and Executive Director
Terry Mollner, Ed.D, is one of the pioneers of socially responsible investing in the professional investment community. In the 1970s, he led a team of national leaders to write one of the first set of social screens for investing. In 1982, he was one of the founders of the Calvert Funds, the first family of such funds and today one of the largest with over $21 billion under management. He also took the lead to create the Calvert Foundation, recently re-named Calvert Impact Capital. It has raised and loaned over $2 billion to reduce poverty in the United States and around the world.
In 2000, he led the negotiations between Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s that resulted in the latter being bought by Unilever with a legal contract that has had the company remain a separate company, the board of directors be a self-perpetuating board, and the percentage of the annual budget for social activism by the company be the same as the year it was bought forever. Dr. Mollner recently retired from being on its board of directors since 2000 to focus on building Trust Funds for All Children and the Common Good Capitalism Movement. He firmly believes the next layer of maturity of free markets is competitors legally meeting and, like the teams in a sports league, agreeing on the common good policies, such as the minimum wage being a livable wage and environment processes, and continuing to compete as ferociously as before with the auditors serving as the referees.
Dr. Mollner is a founder and Chair of Stakeholders Capital, Inc., a socially responsible asset management firm with offices in MA and CA. Also, for more than ten years he has been the chair of the Investment Committee of the Hampshire County United Way where he previously served on its board for nine years.
He has written several books. They are available on Amazon. Two of his most recent ones are Common Good Capitalism Is Inevitable and Our Mutual Blind Spot Since Our Invention of Words: HOW We Answer 7 Questions Will Mature Humanity.