2026 Shareholder Impact Review:

Changing Corporations for Good


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 NUMBERS EXPLAINED:  

  • 131 engagements with 119 companies across 14 issue areas 

  • 8 dialogues led to action without escalation 

  • 55 engagements led to shareholder resolutions

  • 18 resolutions were withdrawn when companies agreed to take requested actions  

  • 29 resolutions went to a vote and received an average support of 13.8% 

  • 22 resolutions had votes above the re-filing thresholds  

  • $1.95 trillion of total share value was voted in support of our resolutions 

  • 212 individual shareholders represented across 65 financial advisor firms provided 1,389 authorization letters

  • 131 engagements over the course of the 2026 proxy, they are as follows: Climate and Energy (63); Social Justice/Worker Rights (27); Circular Economy (20); Environmental Health (11); Biodiversity (10)


SELECTED ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

The 2026 Shareholder Impact Review contains summaries of engagements, presented to give an idea of why we chose these particular companies to engage this season.

Only a portion of resolutions that were filed are represented in the selected highlights. To read them, download the report.

To see the breadth of all of our filed resolutions from this season, please visit our online Resolutions Tracker here.