Investors Call on Olympic Sponsors to End Their Silence, Defend Russian LGBT Rights
February 6, 2014: New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, as trustee of the $160.7 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, along with New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and a coalition of 19 investors, released letters written to four major corporate sponsors of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia that failed to respond to an earlier request they use their influence to ensure the protection of the human rights of Russian citizens, as well as athletes and visitors to the Olympics. The letters follow an initial outreach to ten companies in December regarding Russia’s recently enacted …
Trillium Joins Investor Group Urging Olympic Corporate Sponsors to Speak Out for Russian LGBT Rights
DECEMBER 5, 2013: New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today that the $160.7 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, leading a coalition of investors with $327 billion of assets under management, has sent letters to ten major corporate sponsors of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia urging the sponsors to use their influence to ensure the human rights of Russian citizens, as well as athletes and visitors to the Olympics. The investors, including New York City Comptroller John C. Liu and a coalition of 19 investment firms, acted in response to Russia’s recently enacted laws …
2009 Shareholder Advocacy At-A-Glance
Since Investing For A Better World is a quarterly publication, we lack the space to write about all of our advocacy initiatives in depth. But at the end of each proxy season, we attempt to give them all their due at least graphically! Elsewhere on this site, you’ll find the text of every shareholder resolution that we sponsor (and co-sponsor, in which we take a lesser role). Lead Files AT&T Omitted Internet privacy & freedom of expression CenturyTel 30.5% Internet privacy & freedom of expression Chevron 7% Strengthen global environmental standards ConocoPhillips 30.5% Report on impact of tar sands Dominion …
2008 Advocacy Priorities
For the 2007-2008 shareholder resolution season (which roughly parallels an academic year), Trillium Asset Management Corporation (“Trillium”) has filed 18 shareholder proposals addressing a wide range of environmental and social justice concerns. Thirteen resolutions on which we are acting as lead* filer are highlighted in this article. All the proposals we are involved in are posted on our web site. Among its Wall Street peers, Bank of America (BAC)‘s internal greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals look good upon a first read: the bank has pledged that emissions from its own offices by will decline 7 percent from 2004 levels by …
Dow Chemicals – Report on Pesticde Use and Asthma (2008)
WHEREAS: Approximately half of Dow’s end-use pesticide products (73 of 149) may be linked to asthma and other respiratory problems through active or inert ingredients or metabolites. Common Dow pesticide products with ingredients linked to respiratory problems include: FulTime, Dursban, Lorsban, Glyphomax, Tordon, Telone, Starane, Dithane, Widematch, Vikane/Profume and more. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 16 million people in the U.S. suffer from asthma. Since the mid-1980s, asthma rates have reached epidemic levels. CDC states that nearly 1 in 8 school-aged children have asthma, the leading cause of school absenteeism due to chronic illness. Children …
It Seems to Me
Now You Can Hire an Advertising Agency to Spread Your Social Responsibility Messages I have been a journalist for virtually all my working life, except when I took up residence at the J. Walter Thompson Company from 1963 through 1967, then the largest and one of the oldest advertising agencies in the land. I didn’t write any ads. I put out a weekly internal newsletter and represented the agency to the press. I had the run of the place, and it was a fun job. Every time a new account came in, there was a big celebration. Once, during a …
Dow Chemical – Report on Chemicals With Known Links to Asthma and Other Respiratory Problems (2007)
Company: Dow Chemical Final Vote: 6.8% Year: 2006-2007 …
2007 Shareholder Resolution Roundup
Gentle reader, we must hastily publish the results of this spring’s flurry of company annual meetings while we can still remember them accurately. Most of our advocacy initiatives paid off very well. Surely not by coincidence, this year we happily integrated two new staff members into our Social Research & Advocacy Team, Julie Mackin, our administrative assistant, and Susan Baker Martin, a social research analyst. Susan was a portfolio manager for Trillium Asset Management Corp. (“Trillium”) for a number of years in the 1980’s and 90’s. High Fives All Around Apple Computer made our day on May 2 by announcing …
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