Socially Responsible Investment

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

As You Sow
www.asyousow.org
As You Sow was founded in 1992 and now comprises two programs that strive to increase corporate accountability. The Environmental Enforcement Program seeks to reduce and remove carcinogenic exposures by pursuing compliance with California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. In 1997, As You Sow launched the Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSRP) to use shareholder advocacy and the financial markets to catalyze positive change within public held companies. To date, the group has participated in more than 50 shareholder dialogues or resolutions and has conducted more than 25 shareholder solicitation campaigns.

Business for Social Responsibility
www.bsr.org
Business for Social Responsibility, founded in 1992, is an association of companies that aim to reconcile their commercial and social responsibility goals. Members range from mid-size businesses such as Tom’s of Maine to large Fortune 500 firms.

Calvert Social Investment Foundation
www.calvertfoundation.org
The Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) works to end poverty through investment. It serves as a facility to place capital on softer terms to finance affordable homes, fund small and micro businesses and to make available essential community services. Calvert Foundation's broader objective is to create "community investment" as a new asset class in the financial services industry. (As noted above, Calvert is working with Co-op America on a campaign to direct a percentage of social investment fund assets to CDFIs.)

Ceres
www.ceres.org
Ceres is a national network of investment funds, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working to advance environmental stewardship on the part of business. For instance, in May 2005 at the United Nations, Ceres brought together representatives of U.S. and international pension funds representing $5 trillion in capital to address the profound investment risks and emerging business opportunities driven by climate change.

Co-op America
www.coopamerica.org
Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Co-op America has a membership base of over 50,000 consumer activists and 2,500 responsible businesses (the Co-op America Business Network). Co-op America publishes the National Green Pages, hosts the Social Investment Forum, and promotes a variety of fair trade and socially investing programs. (As noted above, Co-op America is working with Calvert on a campaign to direct a percentage of social investment fund assets to CDFIs.)

Corporation 20/20
www.corporation2020.org
Coming out of the movement for corporate social responsibility and organized by Business Ethics magazine and the Tellus Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit, Corporation 20/20 aims to move beyond calls for corporate social responsibility to develop new “rules of the game” in areas such as director duties, capitalization, liability, and accountability to make corporate social responsibility not just a good thing to do, but a requirement of doing business.

Council of Institutional Investors
www.cii.org
The Council of Institutional Investors is an organization comprised of large public, labor and corporate pension funds. Founded in 1985, the Council today has over 140 pension fund members whose assets exceed $3 trillion, and more than 130 educational sustainers.

Institutional Shareholder Services
www.issproxy.com
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services with over 20 years of experience. ISS serves more than 1,600 clients worldwide with its core business — analyzing proxies and issuing informed research and vote recommendations for more than 33,000 companies.

Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
www.iccr.org
For over thirty years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), an association of 275 faith- based institutional investors, has been a leader in the movement for corporate social responsibility. ICCR and its members press companies to be socially and environmentally responsible. Each year ICCR-member religious institutional investors sponsor over 100 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues. The combined portfolio value of ICCR member organizations is estimated to be $110 billion.

Net Impact
www.netimpact.org
Net Impact aims to support the growth of a network of leaders who use power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact. With more than 125 student and professional chapters on 4 continents in 75 cities and 80 graduate schools, a central office in San Francisco, and partnerships with leading for and nonprofit organizations, Net Impact enables members to use business for social good in their graduate education, careers, and communities.

Responsible Endowments Coalition
www.sriendowment.org
The Responsible Endowment Coalition is a diverse network of students, alumni and faculty dedicated to advancing socially and environmentally responsible investing (SRI) of college endowments. Founded in 2004 by students from a number of East Coast-based universities, the coalition has expanded to include groups across the country on over three dozens campuses.

Social Investment Forum
www.socialinvest.org
The Social Investment Forum is a national nonprofit membership association dedicated to promoting the concept and practice of socially responsible investing. The Forum is made up of over 500 financial professionals and institutions. Its website offers a wide range of information, contacts & resources on socially responsible investing.

Social Venture Network
www.svn.org
Founded in 1987, Social Venture Network is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business. Social Venture Network advocates for a “triple bottom line” of economic, social, and environmental returns and maintains a number of resource links on its web site.

SRI in the Rockies
www.sriintherockies.com
SRI in the Rockies is a forum that brings together leaders in the socially responsible investment industry in the United States. First held in 1990, SRI in the Rockies provides a venue to meet and learn from passionate, creative people from all corners of the social investment community.