HIP^TM = Human Impact + Profit:  
For your company, your portfolio and your world.

IN THIS ISSUE:

• 2008: Our 3 Resolutions for Being HIP
• A HIP Reading List of 25 Books
• Banking HIP in the USA: Wainwright Bank & Trust
• Find HIP Friends
• See HIP in Person
• In The News
• How To Be HIP in 2008

2008: OUR 3 RESOLUTIONS TO BE HIP

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  We offer 3 New Year's Resolutions for 2008:

1. Ask HIP Questions: Three core questions to ask of any investment, company or project: 

"How much net positive impact is created - in health, wealth, earth and equality?"

"How does that impact drive higher revenues, lower costs and overall profitability?" 

"What management practices are in place to sustain and increase this impact over time?" 

Ask your financial planner about your portfolio, your executives at work about your company, and your suppliers of services or products in 2008 - how will they be HIP?
(Coming in 2008:  HIP online web-inars and education workshops)

2. Be HIP in your investing, work and life:  Look for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, venture-capital, microfinance or social investments that deliver net positive human impact in quantifiable terms - and create profit at the same time.  Initiate projects at work that save energy (and utility costs). Shop HIP for reusable and recyclable products.  (Read how to evaluate and invest HIP in Sustainable Life Media's interview with HIP Founder and CEO Paul Herman.)

3. Connect with HIP friends and professionals:  With the Nobel Peace Prize once again going to improving our world (Al Gore and the science community for climate change in 2007; micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus in 2006), be inspired to chat with your family, friends and colleagues about what it takes to bring sustainable, profitable growth to your investments, your company and your world.
(Look for the links in the right-hand column to Find HIP Friends.)

Our last newsletter asking "How HIP is Your Bank?" found its way to a HIP Bank in Boston, Massachusetts.  Click here to learn more about Wainwright Bank and its Green Loans and other sustainable products, and its industry-leading financial returns for investors.

See http://www.LaunchMyHIPcareer.com/ for complete rules and entry information.

HOW TO BE HIP IN 2008

Help spread HIP as the new way to maximize both Human Impact + Profit for your company, your portfolio and your world! Here are three easy ways to make the world a more HIP place to be:

1)    Take the HIP Quiz and then consider entering HIP's competitions - http://www.launchmyhipcareer.com/ and http://www.howhipisit.com/

2)    Share the HIP newsletters with friends, colleagues and your service providers and financial planners - click on and forward the links for September 2007 and October/November 2007.

3)    Make new HIP friends through professional groups at your company, your school and on the Ning, Facebook and MySpace networks.

Learn more about HIP's services for Investors and for Companies or contact Jessica@HIPInvestor.com to help you or your organization be even more HIP! 

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