January 23, 2007

Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Responsible Investing

By: Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund promotes social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Through its grantmaking, the Fund supports efforts to expand knowledge, clarify values and critical choices,...

January 23, 2007

Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation

By: Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation

The Jesse Smith Nioyes Foundation was founded in 1947 by Charles Noyes, in honor of his late wife Jessie Smith. Mr. Noyes made his fortune in New York City’s commercial real estate market. For the first forty years, the...

January 23, 2007

The Needmor Fund

By: The Needmor Fund

The mission and purpose of this trust is to work with others to bring about social justice. The Needmor Fund supports people who work together to change the social, economic, or political conditions which bar their access to...

January 23, 2007

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

By: The Nathan Cummings Foundation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community. It sees to build a socially and economically just society, that...

January 1, 2007

Climate Risk Disclosure by the S&P 500

By: Ceres Reports

This report assesses how S&P 500 corporations from 11 key industries disclose the risks and opportunities they face from climate change.

December 28, 2006

AFSCME Employees Pension Plan Shareholder Proposals for 2006 Advisory Votes On Executive Pay

By: AFSCME

Urge boards to establish an annual shareholder advisory vote to approve or reject the company compensation committee report. A shareholder vote on the compensation report is already required of companies in the United Kingdom and...

September 29, 2006

News and Action; This week the state of California adopted a law that requires the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California Teachers' Retirement System to divest from certain companies that do business in Sudan.

By: Global Exchange

As you know, the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan is desperate. Since 2003, more than 400,000 civilians have died from fighting, famine and disease, and 2.5 million have been displaced. 90% of villages have...

September 1, 2006

Oxford Grad Students’ Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Thesis Cites Positive Impact of Shareholder-Sponsored Resolutions on Corporate Behavior.

By: Kim Farrant, University of Oxford, Supervisor Professor Gordon Clark

Kim Farrant’s insightful analysis on the role of shareholder resolutions in holding corporations accountable is one of the first thesis to extensively utilize the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility’s (ICCR) EthVest(sm)...

July 13, 2006

U.S. SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT ASSETS GREW FASTER THAN REST OF INVESTMENT WORLD OVER LAST DECADE

Report Finds Total SRI Grew 260 Percent Since 1995,

SRI Mutual Funds Grew 15-Fold; Nearly 1 in 10 Dollars

Now in SRI Screening, Shareholder Advocacy, Community Investing.

July 13, 2006

Background / Perspective on the nature of Shareholder Activism

By: Hank Boerner

Some shareholder advocates stress this: Shareholders are partial owners of the enterprise – they point out that they hold shares (stock) issued by the company in their own retirement accounts, in personal portfolios and...