• John Miswagon, Chief Pimicikamak Cree Nation

• Randy Hayes, Founder, Rainforest Action Network

• Tod Arbogast, Sustainable Business Director Dell Inc.

• Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, Global Exchange

• Jeffrey Hollender, CEO of Seventh Generation

• Dan Chally, Senior Director, Corporate Compliance Supplier Standards McDonald's Corp.

• Paul Pressler, CEO, Gap Inc.

• Mark Preisinger, Director for Shareowner Affairs at Coca-Cola

John Miswagon, Chief Pimicikamak Cree Nation
"I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart... While we waited 25 years for this first sign of justice, we know we might have had to wait many more years if people like you had not become involved to support us... You have brought hope to my people."

Randy Hayes, Founder, Rainforest Action Network
"Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has worked closely with As You Sow for almost 10 years, since they began their pioneering work in shareholder activism on a whole host of social and environmental issues.

Their team... is one of the most effective activist groups in the business. And they've had many impressive results."

Tod Arbogast, Sustainable Business Director Dell Inc.
"Engagement with expert stakeholder organizations like As You Sow is critical in helping Dell meet our goals to be a responsible market leader. This engagement has helped us better understand emerging corporate responsibility issues, external perceptions of our performance, and helped us develop more responsive corporate policies to address those issues."

Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder, Global Exchange
Using its leverage as a representative of shareholders in publicly traded companies, As You Sow has fought sweatshop labor and championed labor rights for nearly a decade at companies like Nike, Gap, Walt Disney, McDonald's and Wal-Mart.

As You Sow is helping to slow the race to the bottom in labor standards. It was a key player in the successful shareholder effort to force Gap Inc. to publish a vendor standards report last year that for the first time applied a quantitative ranking to supplier factory performance

As You Sow is a long-term player in pushing U.S. multinationals to enforce codes of conduct. This is a powerful response to globalization and the outsourcing of production.

Jeffrey Hollender, CEO of Seventh Generation
[In November 2002, Hewlett Packard decided to] "break with the industry pack and support state legislation to require PC makers to bear the cost of disposing discarded computers….Credit for this transformation must go to the Basel Action Network, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Greenpeace China, As You Sow, the Calvert Group, and their... for putting an issue on the national and corporate radar screens that had formerly been utterly ignored."

Dan Chally, Senior Director, Corporate Compliance Supplier Standards McDonald's Corp.
"Our relationship with As You Sow has helped strengthen our supplier social accountability program. As You Sow has provided frank and honest insight about our sourcing practices. They have helped us improve by holding McDonald's accountable in a collaborative manner."

Paul Pressler, CEO, Gap Inc.
"Your willingness to work with us toward greater transparency has been important in the development of our [social responsibility] report."

Mark Preisinger, Director for Shareowner Affairs at Coca-Cola
"I do believe [shareholders' proposals] helped us get to where we are on the recycled content issue. The dialogue that we undertake with shareholders clearly helps advance agendas like this one inside our company."