As You Sow® conducted 131 corporate engagements in the 2026 proxy season. It is with immense gratitude to YOU – share authorizers, donors, supporters, colleagues, and community – that we offer this impact review. Thank you for participating in creating this impact. The credit for these successes is yours.
The analysis of 1,482 U.S. based and publicly traded companies between 2016 and 2024 strongly indicates that a diversity benefit exists; companies should be attentive and proactive in capturing it.
“‘Homogeneous leadership tends to share the same blind spots, miss the same risks, and reach for the same familiar answers, and over time, that shows up in financial results,’ said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow.” Read More →
“‘EEO-1 workforce data has long served as the bare minimum for evaluating corporate performance in creating equitable and effective workplace hiring programs,” said Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel of As You Sow, in a statement." Read More →
“‘Workforce diversity is a material business issue that investors increasingly consider in their decision-making,’ said Andrew Behar, As You Sow’s CEO.
Without this information, said Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel, ‘investors are flying blind.’" Read More →
“‘By rescinding this rule, the S.E.C. is turning its back on the investors it exists to protect,’ Andrew Behar, the chief executive of As You Sow, an environmental advocacy group, said in a statement. “This action treats the material financial risk of climate change that harms every American as nothing more than fulfillment of a campaign promise to the fossil fuel industry.’” Read More →