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Remember, buyer beware, and check with "Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds" (a "Consumer Reports" of mutual fund investing with ratings and comparisons) online through your local, public library, ... but three, diversified, low-cost, socially responsibly, mutual funds, that top my list for investing for retirement, are:

TIAA CREF Social Choice Equity Fund - TICRX

Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Investor Shares - VFTSX

Domini Social Equity Fund - DSEFX

Vanguard Health Care fund finishes in the top 1% of all mutual funds after 15 years, and is very low cost, and has very low turnover, but is now closed. It also buys stocks similar to that which a socially responsible mutual fund would buy. T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund - PRHSX - is performing remarkably these days, but as a health care fund, it isn't diversified, and hence more risky (the big concern in investing) than the above diversified, socially responsible, mutual funds. Check these two out in Morningstar.

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Burton, John. 2011. Investing with Principles: Socially responsible ETFs are multiplying, with a variety of approaches. April 3. New York, NY: The Wall Street Journal.

Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund. 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Hall_Socially_Responsible_Investment_Fund. wikipedia.org

Glassman, James K. 2012. 5 Mutual Funds for Socially Responsible Investors: You don't have to give up performance to invest with your conscience. Kiplinger's Personal Finance.

Introduction to Socially Responsible Investing. 2013. Introduction to Socially Responsible Investing. socialfunds.com/page.cgi/article1.html.

MacLeod, Scott. 2008. American Dipper: Nontheist Friends, Socially Conscious Index Mutual Funds, Index Investing and the Harbin Pools. December 6. scott-macleod.blogspot.com.

MacLeod, Scott. 2011. Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia: 'Index Investing,' Socially Responsible Investing, Mutual funds, Vanguard Mutual Funds' founder Bogle. October 16. scott-macleod.blogspot.com.

Mieszkowski, Katharine. 2010. Stanford Considers Guideline for ‘Conflict Minerals’. June 11. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Nocera, Joe. 2007. Joe Nocera: The trouble with socially responsible investing. April 6. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Sanford, Carol. 2012. The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success. Stanford, CA: Social Innovation Review.

Socially responsible investing. 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_responsible_investing Wikipedia.

Steyer, Tom. 2012. 2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Tom Steyer, Co-Founder of Advanced Energy Economy. September 5. Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Bee.

TIAA CREF. 2013. Socially Responsible Investing: How does Socially Responsible Investing work?. New York, NY: TIAA-CREF.

TIAA CREF. 2012. Sustainable Investing at TIAA-CREF: 2012 Socially Responsible Investing Report. New York, NY: TIAA-CREF.

UNEP. 2010. The Principles for Responsible Investment. The United Nations Environmental Program Financial Initiative.

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Calvert Investments. 2013. http://www.calvert.com/

Domini Social Investing. 2012. Domini Social Investments

Friends Fiduciary. 2013. Friends Fiduciary. (Guided by Quaker testimonies and values, our investment philosophy and shareholder activities reflect a distinct awareness of important cultural and economic issues such as the environment, human rights, just wages, safe working conditions, good corporate governance, and much more). Philadelphia, PA: Friends Fiduciary.

Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds. 2012. (Check your public library's complete, print version, and the online version through your public library, as well).

Parnassus Funds. 2013. http://www.parnassus.com/

Pax World Funds. 2013. http://www.paxworld.com/

TIAA-CREF Funds - Retail Class - Social Choice Equity (TICRX). 2012. TIAA-CREF Funds Social Choice Equity. TIAA-CREF Funds.

Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Investor Shares (VFTSX). 2010. Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Investor Shares (VFTSX). Vanguard.com.

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