Interested in learning more about shareholder activism? Whether you are an institutional investor looking to get more involved in shareholder activism, or a concerned individual looking to learn more about how your investments can make a difference, we hope you find the following collection of links and resources helpful.

 

 

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (www.iccr.org)

For more than 30 years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement, coordinating shareholder actions on a wide range of issues. ICCR’s website includes information and resources on a broad range of issues, from diversity to sweatshops to international health. Domini Social Investments is an associate member of ICCR, and has partnered with it on many shareholder campaigns.

Confronting Companies Using Shareholder Power: A Handbook on Socially-Oriented Shareholder Activism

A helpful "how to" guide to filing shareholder resolutions, prepared by Friends of the Earth.

 

Note:Friends of the Earth cautions that its guide is "intended to assist investors who have a long-term commitment to social issues and who are committed to using shareholder activism tools in a prudent and responsible manner." Well-meaning but inexperienced shareholders can actually do more harm than good by filing resolutions without expert assistance or without consulting other activists or affected communities.

 

 

The Center for Reflection, Education and Action (CREA) (www.crea-inc.org)

How do you determine a “sustainable living wage”? CREA’s signature service is the Purchasing Power Index (PPI), the only trans-national, trans-cultural, and trans-temporal measurement of the purchasing power of wages. The PPI was developed by CREA's founder, Ruth Rosenbaum, TC, Ph.D. The PPI makes possible the calculation of sustainable living wages in any country.

 

CREA is a faith-based social economic research, education and action center. From CREA’s website: “Believing that the earth is home to all, CREA facilitates analysis of human, social and economic policies from the perspective of their effects on human lives, beginning with the lives of people who are poor."

 

Verité (www.verite.org)

Verité is a nonprofit organization established to address the issues of human rights within global production. Verité's mission is to ensure that all products sold through the global production networks of U.S. and European companies have been made under fair and legal working conditions. Verité has developed an extensive independent monitoring program linked with a global network of partner nongovernmental organizations, to conduct extensive worker interviews in more than 1,000 factories in 65 countries.