Press Releases

As You Sow today responded to vote results released by SkyWest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKYW) in the wake of its Annual General Meeting held May 5, 2026.

Independent shareholders supported the resolution at approximately 27.7%, a meaningful expression of investor concern at a company where management recommendations carry exceptional weight with long-tenured shareholders.

As You Sow today released Social Justice Funds, a free online platform scoring thousands of investment funds on racial justice, gender equality, corporate diversity, and LGBTQ+ equity.

Today, updated Racial Justice and Workplace Equity Scorecards, based on ratings for the 3,000 largest publicly traded US companies on 64 key performance indicators, was released by As You Sow.

Today, shareholders of Deere & Co (NYSE:DE) sent a strong signal to the Board and management by voting nearly unanimously against a shareholder proposal from a conservative think-tank looking to undermine the company’s diversity and inclusion programs.

Today, shareholder representative organization As You Sow announced that it has withdrawn Proposal 05 from the proxy statement of Deere & Co (NYSE: DE), which sought greater transparency and disclosure of the Company’s efforts to build a productive and meritocratic workforce.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled against Deere & Co’s “no-action”  request to exclude a shareholder proposal filed by As You Sow on behalf of shareholder Amalgamated Bank, asking the company to address the effectiveness of the Company’s policies in creating a meritocratic workplace, especially in the face of Deere’s recent diversity policy rollbacks.

Today, over 20 shareholders with more than $63 billion in assets sent letters to Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), Mastercard (NYSE:MA), Meta (NASDAQ:META), and DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) asking that they publicly disassociate their brands from the Canada Strong & Free conference that they are currently sponsoring and publicly refute the divisiveness, homophobia, hate speech, and far-right activism embodied by Chris Rufo, who is a featured keynote speaker at the conference.

Today, Fox News (NASDAQ: FOX) asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to exclude an As You Sow shareholder proposal asking Fox to disclose the risks of inadequate differentiation between its on-air news and its opinion content. The proposal highlights the financial and reputational risks associated with viewers mistakenly assuming that Fox opinion personalities are journalists delivering fact-based information.

Today, Meta shareholders will vote on a proposal filed by shareholder representative As You Sow asking the company to assess the impact of reinstating “enhanced actions” put in place to protect the 2020 election and prohibiting political advertising on its platform prior to the 2024 election. The requested actions would reduce misinformation and hate speech on its platforms during another heated election cycle.