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  COVID-19, racial justice and community

  Ken Hochstetler, President and CEO of Everence, discusses how the first seven months of 2020 have brought dramatic change and upheaval for all of us – and it’s during times of uncertainty that our relationships with each other are more essential than ever.
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  Washington, D.C., NFL team agrees to reconsider racist name

  News release: Praxis Mutual Funds®, a fund family of Everence®, signed on to letters calling on Nike, Pepsi, and FedEx to terminate their business and public relationships with the National Football League’s Washington, D.C., franchise if it does not stop using the name “Redskins,” a term long considered racist by American Indians.
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  We can and must do better

  All of us at Praxis Mutual Funds®, a fund family of Everence Financial®, are distraught by the systemic racism and police violence plaguing our country. We commit ourselves to using the many tools at our disposal as investors – screening, shareholder engagement, proxy voting, positive impact bonds, community investing and more to address the inequity and systemic racism that infect our lives in so many ways. We can do more. We can do better ... and we must.
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  New African Development Bank social bond targets COVID-19 response

  MarketScreener and several other news outlets recently highlighted Praxis Impact Bond Fund’s investment in the African Development Bank’s Fight COVID-19 social bond: London Stock Exchange: African Development Bank celebrates milestone with first social bond listing on London Stock Exchange.
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  Praxis Mutual Funds among early signatories of ICCR Investor Statement on Coronavirus Response

  Praxis Mutual Funds®, a leading faith-based, socially responsible family of mutual funds from Everence® Financial, calls upon company leadership to uphold policies that care for employees, customers and suppliers in the face of the COVID-19 global humanitarian crisis.