Susan Davis Moora
“The Godmother of Social Investing”
With a background in high finance, Susan was a key influencer in the creation of the social investment industry. She was guided by her visionary principles of generosity, reciprocity, and conscious collaboration to co-create a future that works for the highest good of all Earth. She was the first woman in the Social Venture Network and was instrumental in the creation of the “Triple Bottom Line Simulation” which proved that the best investments are social ventures that prioritize people, planet, and profits.
Honoring a Lifetime of Achievement
On November 9, 2021, Susan Davis Moora celebrated her 80th birthday with an online gathering of her KINS Network alumni and extended community of kindred spirits.
One of our special guests during the celebration was Lawrence Ford, Founder and CEO of Conscious Capital Wealth Management, Founder and Chairman of the Future Capital initiative in partnership with the United Nations, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and author of the book Secrets of the Seasons.
In this video, Lawrence presents Susan with the very first “Lifetime Achievement Award” from Future Capital.
Living Life as a “Trojan Horse of Love”
Susan Davis has dedicated her entire life to serving humanity and giving Nature a voice.
Her life is an inspiring legacy of courageously challenging boundaries and expanding higher consciousness.
She has broken through perceived limits and broken down barriers to empower women, minorities, and Indigenous/Original peoples.
Recognizing the cascading benefits of Nature, she has been a champion of biomimicry and bio-dynamically aligned sustainable, regenerative businesses.
She graduated Brown University (cum laude) in 1963.
In the late sixties, she wrote for “The Executive,” a publication at Harvard University’s Center for Studies in Education & Development.
In the seventies, she launched three publications: Boston’s first Black newspaper (now “The Boston Banner”), a professional women’s newsletter called “The Spokeswoman” and an entrepreneurial magazine called “Minority Enterprise.”
As Vice President at Chicago’s South Shore Bank, she created national legislation to manifest the “Neighborhood Development Bank” industry which funded the restoration of Chicago’s South Shore Community.
In the summer of 1979 Susan sent out a letter, inviting 113 exceptional Chicago women to the first meeting of what became The Chicago Network. “We are calling together women distinguished by their achievements in business, the arts, the professions, government and academia…” Ninety-seven women accepted the invitation to meet for the first time. During the early years, members forged friendships, supported each other in professional and community work, gathered at dinner meetings and networked, networked, networked. Open to each other’s thinking and apolitical. Empowering each other to lead.
Today, 40 years later, Chicago Network members—now more than 500 of the city’s most senior women leaders—still does this. Corporate executives, entrepreneurs, leaders at professional and financial service firms, heads of cultural institutions, universities and major law firms, art conservators, scientists, musicians, architects, and chefs… all supporting each other but also looking toward the horizon with a focus on the city’s future women leaders.
Through the eighties, Susan served as Vice President of the Personal Trust Group at Chicago’s Harris Bank, where she focused on empowering women of influence.
Susan was the first woman on the founding board of the Social Venture Network (SVN), which gave birth to the social investment industry.
In the nineties, she founded the Capital Missions Company with the goal of transforming the world of finance from fear and greed to love and joy through her Key Innovator Network Strategy (KINS) method. She founded several KINS groups including the Investors’ Circle, the Destiny Funding Circle, KINS4All, the Capital Circle for women investors, the Solar Circle, and many more.
She authored “The Trojan Horse of Love,” a personal memoire about her life mission to transform the world of finance from fear and greed to generosity and love.
In the early 2000’s, she and her husband Walter moved to Vilcabamba, a tiny village in Ecuador, and bought a farm (Finca Sagrada, which means sacred land farm) which is now a Community Supported Sacred Site.
Marion Rockefeller Weber, a major contributor to KINS networks, gave her a grant to become a “Flow Funder” in Ecuador. From a $60,000 initial grant, they were able to donate more than $1 million in measurable value to the village.
Susan has been “off the grid” for several years, connecting with the Kogi Wisdom Keepers to conceive the future and is now re-emerging to birth the next level of evolution for the alumni from her many KINS groups.
Today, she is the Co-Founder and Chairwoman Emeritus of KINSHIP Earth, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to connecting and supporting the next generation of evolutionary leadership to manifest Nature-aligned change at this critical time.
In 2021, Lawrence Ford and his team at Conscious Capital awarded Susan with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” as the “Godmother of Social Investing.”
KINS Networks connect visionaries to support each other in realizing each person’s life mission.
Generosity and giving Nature a voice underlies each of the 40+ successful KINS Networks.
We are now poised to utilize technology to validate Indigenous wisdom as we learn about, empower, and share our collective potential by collaborating with you, our kindred spirits.
Susan is calling together an experienced collective to join in collaborating and sharing the joy that she has experienced helping people become inspired, connect with each other, and accomplish their dreams for humanity, which, without each other, would have been impossible.
With gratitude and love for all those joining us in aligning humanity with Nature, we look forward to co-creating a future of thriving health and unlimited potential.
Today, Susan and her husband, Walter, are stewarding a sacred site in Vilcabamaba, Ecuador.
Walter Moora and Susan Davis Moora have been manifesting a living model of sustainability in a lush valley in Central America since the early 2000's.
After living in the United States, serendipity led them to Vilcabamba, Ecuador where they purchased a farm they named Finca Sagrada, which means sacred land farm. They later learned the land was recognized as an ancient sacred site by the world-renowned Kogi Indigenous tribal elders.
Today, Finca Sagrada is a thriving biodynamic farm, multi-cultural learning center, and Community Supported Sacred Site (CSSS) which offers a robust volunteer program.
Finca Sagrada exemplifies a farm-based, multicultural learning center where people can reconnect to self, community, and Nature through heartfelt thinking.