Sponsors

The Accountability Board (TAB) engages companies on environmental, social, and corporate governance issues that we believe pose significant material risks. For example, TAB’s key achievements for the 2024 proxy season include passing proposals at Jack in the Box and Wingstop regarding climate change. Our proposals also address matters like diversity, animal abuse, and governance practices that disenfranchise shareholders. Our approach is to drive measurable impact while leaving considerable discretion to companies regarding how, precisely, they move forward on the issues we raise with them. We believe this enhances accountability when it comes to appropriately recognizing and addressing social impacts and risks. 

Advance ESG is a non-profit membership organization working to make corporations more environmentally and socially responsible.

Arjuna Capital is a boutique wealth management firm offering a full spectrum of fossil-fuel-free, performance-oriented investing options across asset classes.  As an investment firm focused on sustainability, we understand that social justice, environmental responsibility, and economic vitality are all “bottom line” issues. And we are convinced that investing in a more equitable, environmentally responsible economy is simply smarter long-term investing to secure your wealth and the prosperity of future generations.  Our clients are high-net-worth individuals and families, non-profit endowments, foundations, and institutions — people and organizations across the country who choose to invest in a more vibrant, secure, and sustainable future.

ClearBridge Investments is a leading global equity manager with $189.6 billion in assets under management (as of December 31, 2024). We are committed to delivering long-term results through authentic active management. ESG considerations are integrated into our fundamental research process across all strategies. Owned by Franklin Resources, ClearBridge operates with investment independence from headquarters in New York and offices in Baltimore, Calgary, Fort Lauderdale, London, San Mateo, and Sydney. 

Fiduciary Trust International is a wealth management firm founded in 1931. The firm’s impact investing practice aligns our clients’ values with their long-term risk/return objectives. We have nearly two decades of experience working with clients across a variety of thematic areas from aligning with faith-based values to advancing the transition to a lower carbon future to creating more opportunity for gender and racial equity. Our organization has a deep commitment to customization; grounds impact investing in an investment-centric culture; and offers expertise across all asset classes represented in a comprehensive, diversified portfolio, including private alternative investments. We integrate values- and mission-based investing across the firm in order to give clients access to the firm’s robust investment research, portfolio construction, and risk management processes.

Future 500 believes that forging better relationships is the first step toward solving our most pressing environmental and social challenges.  

We envision a future in which business and civil society work as equal partners and responsible stewards of a clean, just, and prosperous world. 

We help businesses develop skills and relationships that reduce risk, build common ground, and advance their social purpose as a force for good. 

Learn more at future500.org 

Green America’s mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. We work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come.  We work on issues of social justice and environmental responsibility.  We see these issues as completely linked in the quest for a sustainable world.  It’s what we mean when we say “green.” 

 The Green Century Funds are one of the first families of fossil fuel free, environmentally responsible mutual funds. For more than 30 years, the Green Century Funds have offered individuals and institutions a way to align their values with their values.  Green Century leads an award-winning shareholder advocacy program that works with many of the world’s largest corporations and convinces them to change their environmental policies and practices. This year, Green Century’s advocates are engaging with companies on biodiversity, climate change, deforestation, plastic packaging, right to repair, and more.   

Learn about our shareholder advocacy, request information, and learn about the Green Century Equity Fund, the Green Century MSCI International Index Fund, and the Green Century Balanced Fund.  

Harrington Investments, Inc. (HII) is a leader in Socially Responsible Investing and Shareholder Advocacy. Dedicated to managing portfolios for individuals, foundations, non-profits, organized labor and family trusts to maximize financial, social, and environmental performance, we actively engage in shareholder campaigns and other strategies to promote greater corporate responsibility and social justice. We believe the process of shareholder advocacy influences corporate behavior and educates the public about the practices and values of publicly traded corporations. Our advocacy program includes filing shareholder resolutions on corporate governance, sustainability practices and human and indigenous peoples’ rights. In our current socio-political climate, a time of uncertainty and unrest, we continue to call on corporate directors to confront their moral and ethical obligations of fiduciary responsibility.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is a broad coalition of more than 300 institutional investors collectively representing over $4 trillion in invested capital. ICCR members, a cross-section of faith-based investors, asset managers, pension funds, foundations, and other long-term institutional investors, have over 50 years of experience engaging with companies on environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) issues that are critical to long-term value creation.  ICCR members engage hundreds of corporations annually in an effort to foster greater corporate accountability. Visit our website www.iccr.org and follow us on LinkedIn, Bsky and X.

John Streur is committed to ensuring that global capital markets serve not only investors but also the billions of people impacted by corporate actions and market outcomes. With 37+ years of experience in global finance, he has seen firsthand how shareholder rights are a vital component of free, democratic, market-driven economies. He supports As You Sow and Proxy Preview because of their essential role in providing transparency, analyzing key trends, and protecting shareholder rights—critical factors in maintaining the quality and security of U.S. capital markets. Streur believes that through their work, As You Sow and Proxy Preview help safeguard both the integrity of the proxy voting process and the broader financial system that shapes our collective future. 

 Since 1984, Parnassus Investments has invested differently. Our investment team curates portfolios of high-quality companies that are financially strong and take care of the human and natural resources that support the business. We believe it’s a better way to invest to create enduring value for our clients and the world around us. 

Raymond James Investment Management, a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, comprises seven boutique investment managers: Eagle Asset Management, Scout Investments, Reams Asset Management, ClariVest Asset Management, Chartwell Investment Partners, Cougar Global Investments, and Charles Stanley Asset Management.  Collectively, we believe investor interests are best served by allocating capital to organizations that generate long-term value for all constituents. To this end, we believe that considering environmental, social, and governance factors is an important part of what we do as asset managers. While each of our boutique investment management firms is unique in its investment approach, we are all actively seeking to help clients find attractive performance and minimize risk through sustainable investment practices, including proxy voting and corporate engagement. Please visit us at www.rjinvestmentmanagement/esg. 

For more than 30 years, the SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Wealth Management has helped our clients to achieve their financial objectives while driving positive social and environmental impact. Our Financial Advisors have been leaders in the field of socially responsible investing. Promoting investment strategies that connect financial markets with healthy environments, sustainable communities, and humane and diverse workplaces is at the core of what we do. We lead the way with foundations, endowments, nonprofits and other organizations, as well as with families, celebrities and executives, who want to pursue their financial objectives and represent their vision for social change.  

RBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, registered investment adviser and Member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC. 

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The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment is committed to a future where nature is protected, people’s rights are ensured, and environmental justice is advanced. The Rose Foundation identifies and supports grassroots organizations, many from under-resourced, low-income communities of color that are doing innovative and culturally relevant work tackling tough environmental and consumer rights problems. We support leadership within communities and strengthen connections among partners, such as other funders, CBOs, agencies, and policy makers. For 30 years we have addressed challenges affecting livability, created power from the ground up, and devised community-led strategies that have fostered resilience and built capacity. The Rose Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working in California, Washington, and the US.

The Singing Field Foundation is a small family foundation, which began active grantmaking in 2004. Grants are initiated by the foundation’s directors and typically provide general support for environmental, animal welfare, health-related organizations, and other charities of interest to family members. The foundation’s interest in mission-related investing and “active ownership” of the companies in which the foundation is invested reflects our desire to maximize our impact as a small foundation, by deploying “the other 95 percent” of our assets, and our personal values, which dictate that the foundation’s investments should be aligned with the foundation’s mission. The Singing Field Foundation’s support for As You Sow flows directly from this interest and complements the foundation’s other grantmaking.

The Sustainability Group was founded in 1987 at Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge by industry pioneer, Amy Domini. We seek to deliver superior, long-term returns while investing for social and environmental progress.  We offer trustee services and individually tailor portfolios to help clients who seek to profitably invest their assets in a manner that both aligns with their own values and can make a positive difference in the lives of people and our planet. 

While many firms are just discovering socially responsible investing, we have been active stewards for almost forty years. Our approach combines the integration of ESG information into our investment strategy, shareholder advocacy and direct corporate engagement, and meaningful community development and impact investments.  https://sustainabilitygroup.com/  

Veris is an investment advisory firm that applies sustainable and impact investing expertise across public and private markets to help families and mission-driven organizations meet their financial objectives and goals for social & environmental impact. A majority women-led firm, Veris has been helping investors align their financial assets with their values and vision for the future since 2007.