As Attacks Against DEI Heighten, Costco and Apple Prove Inclusion Remains...
Under President Donald Trump’s Project 2025, the administration has launched an unprecedented effort to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Federal agencies are now prohibited...
View ArticleDEI Is Here to Stay: A Movement Beyond Government Policy
While legislative attacks may create temporary barriers, they cannot halt the momentum of a cultural movement. DEI is not just a set of policies or workshops—it’s a mindset and a commitment to ensuring...
View ArticleHow Shareholders Impact Carrier Behavior, Exactly and Specifically, With...
UnitedHealth Group in the cross-hairs—not by patients and regulators but shareholders. … On Wednesday, UHG shareholders requested the company prepare a report on the costs and public health impact...
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Vote Your Proxies – See 2025’s Proxy Memos and Exempt Solicitations
Why is voting proxy ballots so important? The shareholder proposal process allows both large and small shareholders to alert corporate boards and the investor community to their concerns and to...
View ArticleSafer Choice Label Threated as Trump Plans EPA Cuts
A coalition of businesses and organizations representing a broad swath of the economy, including ISSA, the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN), the Household & Commercial Products...
View Article‘It doesn’t need to be in the press’: Navigating US corporate engagement
Political situation will see investors give companies more flexibility on communication around sustainability efforts. The post ‘It doesn’t need to be in the press’: Navigating US corporate engagement...
View ArticleISSA Joins Coalition to Support EPA’s Safer Choice
WASHINGTON – ISSA has joined a coalition of over 200 businesses and industry groups to express their strong support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Safer Choice program. The post ISSA...
View ArticleUnitedHealth Group resists shareholder proposal on delayed and denied care
UnitedHealth Group is attempting to swat down a non-binding shareholder proposal that asked the company to prepare reports on the costs of delayed and denied healthcare. The post UnitedHealth Group...
View ArticleICCR, Shareholder Rights Group, As You Sow Letter to SEC on Staff Legal...
On Wednesday, February 18, ICCR, the Shareholder Rights Group, and As You Sow sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting that the Staff refrain from applying the guidance...
View ArticleInvestor Groups Release Report Defending Shareholder Proposal Rights Against...
NEW YORK, NY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2025 – Today, three investor groups released a report, Shareholder Proposals: An Essential Investor Right, in response to threats to fundamental shareholder rights...
View ArticleHow Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice
Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. Or...
View ArticleNew SEC shareholder proposal guidance divides business, investor groups
New guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission will make it easier for public companies to get the greenlight to exclude shareholder proposals on company proxy statements, experts said, but...
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Investors Call for Just and Comprehensive Immigration Reform to Foster...
NEW YORK, NY, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025 – A group of nearly 100 institutional investors issued a statement today in support of comprehensive immigration reform they view as critical to creating business...
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Now Out: The 2025 ICCR Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide
ICCR has been publishing the Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide annually since 1974 as a way to educate and build support for member proposals. In our Guide, you will find all ICCR member-sponsored...
View ArticleOreo-Maker Mondelez Turns to New SEC Guidance to Quiet Call for Russia...
Mondelez International Inc. is asking regulators for permission to ignore a shareholder proposal that calls for greater transparency on the Oreo maker’s Russian operations. The post Oreo-Maker Mondelez...
View ArticleTrump SEC Curbs on Small Investor Campaigns Face Court Scrutiny
Activist investors fighting 2020 SEC rules limiting campaigns from small shareholders faced a judge’s scrutiny on Monday over their legal strategy in a four-year-old case challenging regulations that...
View ArticleDisastrous Omnibus proposal erodes EU’s corporate accountability commitments...
The publication by the European Commission of its Omnibus proposal revising key corporate sustainability laws sends a clear political signal: President Ursula von der Leyen is deprioritising human...
View ArticleICCR member ESG shareholder proposals filings at 10-year low
Climate change drops in topic priority focus, no action requests ‘up significantly’. The post ICCR member ESG shareholder proposals filings at 10-year low first appeared on Interfaith Center on...
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Investors File 60 Proposals Calling for Transparency Around Corporate...
Members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility announced they had filed 60 shareholder proposals for the 2025 proxy season calling for increased disclosures and strengthened oversight of...
View Article2025 Update on SEC Rules for Shareholder Proposals
In order to help companies and investors determine whether a shareholder proposal qualifies to appear on the proxy statement under SEC Rule 14a-8, the SEC has developed a process to allow companies to...
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