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Joe Keefe, president and CEO of Portsmouth-based Pax World Investments, was honored earlier this month as the University of New Hampshire's Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise 2016 Social Innovator of the Year.
Keefe passionately believes in the promise of SRI (socially responsible investing) and its ability to simultaneously promote social change and shareholder return.
'The reason I became involved was to make the world a better place," said Keefe, a former chairman of the NH Democratic Party. "When we have political dysfunction and gridlock, businesses and capital markets can make a huge contribution to human progress."
The UNH Center for Social and Enterprise said Keefe's voice "has helped change the held to champion both sustainable investing and women's empowerment, and his influence has been felt across the globe."
Keefe was named by the Financial Times in 2015 as one of the top 10 Feminist Men in the World, and in 2014, Keefe was honored at the United Nations as one of five recipients of the Women's Empowerment Principles Leadership Award.