When you put money into a retirement plan, you’re doing more than saving for your future. You’re also investing in the companies that shape our economy and our society. Yet many retirement savers don’t realize that their investments may be supporting workplaces with weak or opaque equity practices.
Read MoreFor investors who care about justice, the hidden connection between mutual funds and historically marginalized communities matters. That’s where Social Justice Funds comes in: helping investors see not just the financial performance of funds, but also the racial justice implications behind them.
Read MoreHow do the returns of mutual funds correlate with their gender equality, diversity disclosures, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ equity ratings? As we worked on Social Justice Funds, our newest Invest Your Values tool, we wondered if we would find a similar correlation between higher percentages of BIPOC management and increases in financial metrics.
Read MoreMost workplace retirement plans invest in funds that represent business-as-usual: fossil fuels, private prisons, and corporations that perpetuate systemic bias, reinforce structural racism, widen the gender pay gap, and inflict harm on historically marginalized communities. This is a story we’re hearing more and more, and it’s exactly why we’ve created Social Justice Funds.
Read MoreWe have gained so much collectively from the hard-won battles of organized workers. This week was International Workers' Day, also known as May Day, and As You Sow invites you to join us in celebrating working people and their achievements. Not one of the companies we engage could succeed without the labor of their workers. From cashiers to software engineers, wage workers are the backbone of our economy. Workers have propelled these companies to fantastic financial success.
Read MoreWhy are Elon Musk and Mark Cuban publicly feuding over workforce diversity? The billionaire beef is part of a larger conversation making headlines on corporate programs meant to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace.
Read MoreUnder Executive Order 12898, federal agencies will make environmental justice core to their mission and practices; requiring each to create agency-wide environmental justice strategies, amongst other important goals.
Read MoreIn order to allow their investors to understand their workplace diversity, 87 of the S&P 100 companies have released or have committed to releasing their EEO-1 form, a standardized, government mandated accounting of diversity of gender race and ethnicity by employment levels.
Read MoreAs You Sow has been engaging Facebook, now Meta, with similar resolutions for the past five years asking our company to take responsibility for the material damage to our brand caused by dangerous and criminal behavior, hate speech, and disinformation on our platform.
Read MoreAs You Sow has begun to analyze the specifics of whether and how companies include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets as separate, explicit metrics in their executive compensation plans.
Read MoreI formally move proposal number 5 asking for American Express to report on how it assesses the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Read MoreAs You Sow’s Racial Justice Initiative has tracked whether corporations acknowledge systemic racism, and whether they back that statement up with community involvement and advocacy.
This resolution requests that Abbott Labs publish a report disclosing the company's plan to promote racial justice. Investors seek quantitative comparable data to understand if, and how, the company is promoting a commitment to racial justice.
Read MoreThis resolution requests that Procter & Gamble publish an annual report assessing its diversity and inclusion efforts.
Read MoreI’m Andrew Behar, CEO of the non-profit As You Sow. This shareholder resolution, is of the utmost importance as it asks the critical question: How do words become actions?
Read MoreOn Jan. 23, As You Sow and Women of the World Endowment sponsored a webinar on gender-lens investing. We discussed how to build market awareness of gender-lens investing products to help scale investments that support gender equality.
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