FBB Capital Partners Corporate Philosophy

FBB Capital Partners has worked with clients since 1989 to help them achieve their long-term financial goals. Individual portfolios are created for each account using our time-tested criteria for security selection. Our goal is to provide our clients with the growth of capital and income that will allow them to lead more financially secure lives.

Our asset-based management fee places us as partners in your financial achievement. We are rewarded in direct proportion to the growth of your investment portfolio, not by the number of transactions. This arrangement ensures that our advice is objective, and provides our clients with confidence that our efforts are fully devoted to realizing their financial objectives. We are in no other business and receive no remuneration from any other source than our clients.

FBB believes in giving back. Since 1989 the firm and its principals have donated in excess of a million and a half dollars to charities involved in aiding movements in ecology and sustainability here and around the world. We practice citizenship and lives of purpose.

Heifer International: FBB Capital Partners has been a member of the Heifer family since 1996 when we donated our first “Ark” in honor of our clients. We have given an Ark each year since then. Susan Fulton first met with Heifer in 1962 when, as a young reporter in Lititz, Pennsylvania, she heard about the efforts of Mennonite farmers after WWII to re-stock Europe’s milk cows. In national outreach, farmers from all over the United States each donated heifer (young female) cows, rented old Liberty Ships and sent their sons across the Atlantic to help re-stock the livestock of Europe. Then, as now, each recipient promised to “Pass on the Gift” to others in their community. Over the sixty years since the first sailing cowboys and their “girls” headed across the Atlantic, Heifer has built a web of local, community involvement that teaches skills and responsibility to the recipients so that they gain the ability to obtain sustainable sources of food and income. This year Susan Fulton became one of the four American members of Heifer International’s Board of Directors.
http://www.heifer.org

The Richard Alsina Fulton Center for Sustainable Living: Endowed by Susan Fulton in 1999, the Center is part of the Wilson College campus and the home for hands-on environmental education. The 50-acre farmstead includes a 7-acre organic vegetable farm, passive-solar greenhouse and gardens, and both solar and wind-generated electricity and a biodiesel processor. The property is the home of the historic Owens Barn and Tooke Farmhouse, both Civil War era buildings. In 2007 FBB Capital Partners donated funds to build housing for the farm interns who spend the growing season at the Center learning the craft of organic market gardening. The Center houses the “Consumers Supporting Agriculture” web site where consumers nationwide go to find organic farms in their neighborhood. Susan Fulton is a member of the Board of Trustees of Wilson College.
http://www.wilson.edu

Washington Area Women’s Foundation: Since it’s founding in 1998 the Washington Area Women’s Foundation has worked to build stronger communities by investing in the power of women and girls. FBB Capital Partners has been a part of the effort since the Foundations inception through both membership by staff members and sponsorship of conferences and meetings. The Women’s Foundation has helped to improve the lives of 30,000 women and girls in our region. The objective is straightforward: to engage a broad and diverse network that helps women and girls gain access to the tools they need to reach their full potential.
http://www.thewomensfoundation.org

Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women: Mitch Schlesinger sits of the Board of the Center, which provides legal assistance and advocacy for domestic violence victims. FBB Capital Partners contributes funds to aid the Center in providing direct services and materials to the field and for translation services. Studies by University of Arkansas economist Amy Farmer have shown that legal services are the most critical services needed to reduce domestic abuse.
http://www.lrcvaw.org

Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School: The idea started in Chicago; take talented students with limited resources and use capitalism to pay for their education through a Corporate Work Study Program that funds the majority of each student’s educational costs. This year the idea came to fruition in Washington as a Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School opened in Takoma Park, Maryland. FBB Capital Partners was the third company in the Washington Metro Area to sign up to support the students and the school after reading about the program in Business Week. If you visit our offices you may meet one of the youngsters who each work one day a week in support of their education. The teachers and staff know that every student needs a supportive environment in order to succeed. With a 97% college acceptance rate across the Cristo Rey network of eighteen high schools across the United States their pudding is the proof.
www.donboscocristorey.org

Rachel’s Network: Susan Fulton is a member of Rachel’s Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a network of women conservation funders to be an influential voice for the environment. Rachel's Network brings together like-minded women to forge strategic partnerships, obtain and maintain leadership positions in the public and private sectors, and providess educational initiatives that enable us to become better stewards of the environment.
http://www.rachelsnetwork.org

Metro Ferals: Metro Ferals, a volunteer organization established in 1997 to promote a non-lethal alternative to the “inflation” of the feral cat population, specifically “trap-neuter-return” in Virginia, Maryland and DC.
http://www.metroferals.org

DISCLAIMER: The corporate philosophy page of our website is for informational purposes only. The organizations highlighted here are altruistic activities of our firm and our employees and there are no expressed or implied recommendations or endorsement of these organizations. Neither we nor our information providers shall be liable for any errors or inaccuracies in this information.