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Mercy Investment Services is pleased to announce that it has withdrawn board diversity resolutions at Republic Services, Joy Global and Jarden Corporation following successful engagements resulting in progress by the companies.

Motivated by mounting scientific evidence that human activity is a leading cause of climate change, major institutional investors are pushing for stronger action by companies in climate-related shareholder resolutions in the 2014 proxy season. The 35 institutional investors are led by Walden Asset Management, the New York State comptroller’s office, the California State teachers’ retirement […]

After engagement with environmental nonprofits As You Sow and the Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment (MCRI), the St. Louis-based utility Ameren Corporation has released its 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. The new report represents an improvement over its prior disclosure, and brings the report up to the industry standard. The changes came about following […]

C-span hosted the book talk in February of 2014.

Members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility warn US trade negotiator against expanding tobacco sales and increasing intellectual property rights for medicine. SocialFunds.com — The November publication by WikiLeaks of a draft text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) revealed that US negotiators proposed the extension of intellectual property rights for drugs manufactured […]

By Laura Campos Over the past year, shareholder activists racked up a list of accomplishments that would be the envy of many foundations. They secured agreements from some of the world’s largest companies to set targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. They persuaded companies to be more transparent and accountable with corporate political spending and to […]