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Socially responsible investing (SRI), or social investment, also known as sustainable, socially conscious, "green" or ethical investing, is any investment strategy which seeks to consider both financial return and social good to bring about a social change.

The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization.

Founded by Father Michael J.

McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the mariner Christopher Columbus.

Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to working class and immigrant Catholics in the United States, it developed into a fraternal benefit society dedicated to providing charitable services, promoting Catholic education and Catholic public policy positions, and actively defending Catholicism in various nations.

A fraternity (from Latin : "brother"; ""), fraternal order or fraternal organisation is an organisation, a society or a club of men associated together for various religious or secular aims.

Fraternity in the Western concept developed in the Christian context, notably with the religious orders in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

A notion eventually further extended with the middle age guilds, followed by the early modern formation of gentlemen's clubs, freemasons, odd fellows, student fraternities and fraternal service organisations.

Members are occasionally referred to as a brother or - usually in religious context - Frater or Friar.

Catholicism (from Greek, ', "universal doctrine") is a term which in its broadest sense refers to the beliefs and practices of Christian churches that understand and describe themselves as being Catholic within the universal and apostolic church.

The practice of charity means the voluntary giving of help to those in need, as a humanitarian act.

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