Xponance, Inc., a leading multi-strategy investment firm, and As You Sow, a nonprofit that promotes environmental and social corporate responsibility, today announced that they have formed a new partnership.
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Students teams from 12 universities across the U.S. and Canada have entered a head-to-head contest in the Intentional Endowments Network‘s (IEN) Student Corporate Engagement Competition.
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After a four-month analysis of 94 mutual funds and ETFs with “ESG” in their name, a team of University of California, San Diego graduate students concluded that the linguistic patterns found in mutual fund and ETF prospectus language has a relatively low correlation with its ESG rating.
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A majority of AutoZone shareholders voted Wednesday in favor of an As You Sow resolution requesting the company report on plans to adopt net-zero climate targets and annually disclose progress. The proposal earned a vote of 70.4% representing shareholder support of more than $25 billion in assets.
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New testing data released by consumer protection group As You Sow finds cadmium, a non-essential heavy metal, in a range of spinach products.
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In a resounding vote of support for climate action, 92% of shareholders supported a Say on Climate resolution filed by shareholder representative As You Sow asking the world’s global foodservice leader, Sysco Corporation, for Paris aligned, net-zero targets, an aligned climate transition plan, and annual reporting of progress.
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As You Sow today released an update to its Racial Justice Scorecard and Workplace Equity Scorecard expanding coverage from the S&P 500 to include the Russell 1000.
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Today, As You Sow released its second edition of Pesticides in the Pantry: Transparency & Risk in Food Supply Chains, a report examining the growing risk to food manufacturers posed by the use of synthetic pesticides in agricultural supply chains.
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Today, As You Sow, a non-profit corporate accountability organization, increased the coverage of its Corporate Retirement Plan Sustainability Scorecard to include five additional major U.S. publicly traded companies.
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In response to a resolution filed by shareholder representative As You Sow, which encouraged Microsoft to respond to the growing “right to repair” movement — the company has agreed to increase consumers’ options to repair their devices by the end of 2022.
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Walmart Inc., the world’s largest company by revenue, agreed today at its sustainability milestone summit to reduce total virgin plastic use by 15% throughout the company’s plastic packaging footprint by 2025 following engagement with As You Sow.
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Nike shareholders will vote this Wednesday, Oct. 6 at its annual general meeting on an As You Sow shareholder resolution asking the company to disclose information on the effectiveness of its diversity and inclusion efforts.
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Today, As You Sow released its ”Corporate Plastic Pollution Scorecard 2021” analyzing the actions, and inactions, of 50 of the largest U.S. consumer-facing companies to reduce plastic pollution.
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As You Sow today released its “2021 Shareholder Impact Review: Changing Corporations for Good” summarizing its 2021 proxy season engagements.
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