Press Releases

Azzad Asset Management, investment advisor to the Azzad Funds, announced today that it has submitted drug pricing proposals to Merck & Co. and Gilead Sciences, two major pharmaceutical companies that manufacture some of America’s most popular prescription drugs. The proposals request the companies’ boards of directors to issue a report listing the rates of price […]

After many months of conversations and searching, the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s Cooperative Investment Fund’s (CIF) Board of Directors voted at the November 2016 meeting to commit a portion of the CIF fund to a Renewable Power Investment. This investment is an investor-aligned fund featuring wind and solar assets while shifting companies and institutions away […]

As Thanksgiving nears, 45 leading institutional investors collectively managing $1.2 trillion in assets are pressing some of the nation’s largest producers of turkey and other meats to address the significant water pollution risks associated with feeding, slaughtering and processing livestock. The investors sent joint letters to four of the largest producers in the meat industry, […]

In 2017 Shareholder Resolutions, Investors Call on McDonald’s, Sanderson Farms and Yum Brands to Implement Policies that Eliminate Antibiotics Vital to Human Health in Poultry, Pork and Beef Products. NEW YORK, NY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 2016 – Shareholders in meat and restaurant brands and members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility today announced a campaign to move […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 14, 2016 – Sustainable, responsible and impact investing assets now account for $8.72 trillion, or one in five dollars invested under professional management in the United States according to the US SIF Foundation’s biennial Report on US Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing Trends 2016 which was released today. The biennial Trends Report—first […]

As faith and values-based investors, ICCR’s members remain united in our commitment to work together to create positive change. And while we are deeply concerned about the challenges we will likely face as a result of Tuesday’s election, beneath this concern lays a persistent hope that forms the bedrock of our coalition. This hope not […]

In recognition of potential slavery risks, CEO McMillon announces new commitments that will prohibit the paying of recruitment fees by workers. NEW YORK, NY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016 – Members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and Walmart shareholders welcomed today’s announcement by CEO Doug McMillon that the company would be implementing ethical recruitment […]

On September 10, 2016 a boiler exploded at the Tampaco Foils Ltd. factory in Bangladesh causing a fire and building collapse that took the lives of 35 workers and injured over 50 more. Two major companies—British American Tobacco (BAT) and Nestle–have a business relationship with the Tampaco factory to package their products.  An investor statement coordinated […]

Multiple shareholder resolutions for the 2017 proxy point to economic and societal risks in requests for justification for continued increases on key drugs. NEW YORK, NY, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, 2016 – Investors and members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility who for over 20 years have been engaging the pharma sector to increase the […]