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Now Daily Kos is partnering with Aspiration, a way to bank and invest without supporting Wall Street financial institutions that are working against the common good.
Please read this entire email to learn more about Aspiration, and click here to start your account. When you sign up with Aspiration through Daily Kos, a portion of the proceeds will support keeping us running. You can ditch Wall Street while helping Daily Kos at the same time. -- Chris Bowers, Executive Campaign Director, Daily Kos
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Every year, Fast Company magazine picks the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World. This year’s list was a who’s who of usual suspects: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Uber and others. But alongside them was a new name: Aspiration.
What makes Aspiration so innovative? The answer is that Aspiration is a financial firm with a conscience. That’s why Fast Company also recognized Aspiration as being in the Top Ten Most Innovative in both Finance and in Social Good – the only company to ever appear on both of those lists.
It shouldn’t be so shocking for a company to sit at the intersection of Finance and Social Good, but unfortunately that is not how a lot of the financial industry operates.
The Huffington Post wrote that Aspiration is “channeling Elizabeth Warren to change the face of banking.”
Join us. Sign up today to open a banking or investing account with Aspiration, a financial firm with a conscience.
What makes Aspiration so different?
First: Aspiration is built for the middle class, not the millionaire class. This is, unfortunately, a pretty revolutionary idea in today’s financial sector. But the 99% deserve a financial institution focused on bringing them the best of the best.
Consider the Aspiration Summit Account. Every year, Money magazine surveys the “Best Banks in America.” In this latest round of awards, a new name pushed past the usual Big Banks: the Aspiration Summit Account was named “Best Checking Account in America” for 2015-16.
In one sense, this is not surprising. The FDIC insured Aspiration Summit Account offers an interest rate that is up to 100 times higher than that offered by any of the Big Bank checking accounts. On top of the 1.00% interest rate, Summit provides other benefits like no monthly service fee and free access to every ATM in the world.
What makes the Money magazine selection so unique is that, this time, the Best Checking Account was not just built for those at the top of our economic pyramid.
Sign up to open an Aspiration Summit Account – Money magazine’s “Best Checking Account” in America and move your money from a Big Bank to a financial institution that shares your values.
Second: Aspiration creates financial products that let you make money and make a difference. Aspiration and the Sierra Club have joined forces to democratize sustainable investing. Aspiration’s sustainable investing strategies are not only fossil fuel-free and firearm-free, but invest in companies whose environmental, labor, diversity, and governance practices are likely to make them more profitable over time. Instead of sacrificing your returns, it could mean your returns are even higher. And you can invest with as little as $500.
Check out the Sierra Club and Aspiration’s partnership to democratize sustainable investing. Profit and protecting the planet can go hand in hand. Start the process of making sure that your investments line up with your progressive values.
Third: Aspiration trusts you to pay what Is fair and gives 10% of its revenue to charity. Instead of charging unconscionable fees, Aspiration does the opposite: it lets you choose the fee you pay Aspiration. You can even pay zero if you so choose. However, over 90% of Aspiration investors choose to pay because they are excited to support a financial firm that shares our values.
And Aspiration gives a dime of every dollar it earns to charities helping provide microloans to low-income Americans. Click here to get started on creating an account.
Think of it this way: Aspiration gives 10% of its earnings to charities helping struggling Americans. In contrast, the Big Banks take over $100 million a year of the fees you pay them and spend it on lobbying and campaign contributions so that they can keep charging you those very same exorbitant bank fees.
Every day you keep a Big Bank account open you are funding their anti-consumer lobbying agenda. You are paying them to lobby against what you believe in.
Click here to get started with Aspiration. It’s time to move your money to a financial institution that works for you and shares your values.