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Socially Responsible Investment

AS YOU SOW
311, California Street, Suite 510
San Francisco CA 94104
T 415-391-3212
F 415-391-3245
asyousow@asyousow.org
www.asyousow.org
As You Sow, founded in 1992, has 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 Its Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSRP) uses shareholder advocacy and the financial markets to catalyze positive change within public held companies.

BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
111 Sutter Street, 12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
T 415-984-3200
F 415-984-3201
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 business such as Tom's of Maine to large Fortune 500 firms.

CALVERT SOCIAL INVESTMENT FOUNDATION
7315 Wisconsin Ave.
Bethesda MD 20814
T 800-248-0337
F 301-280-1399
www.calvertfoundation.org
The Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) aims 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.

CERES
99 Chauncy Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
T 617-247-0700
F 617-267-5400
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.

CORPORATION 20/20
c/o Tellus Institute
11 Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116
T 617-266-5400
F 617-266-8303
info@corporation2020.org
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
1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Suite 512
Washington, D.C. 20036
T 202-822-0800
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.

GREEN AMERICA
1612 K Street NW, Suite 600
Washington DC 20006
T 800-58-GREEN (584-7336)
www.coopamerica.org
Green America (formerly Co-op America) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Green America has a membership base of over 50,000 consumer activists and 2,500 responsible businesses. Green America publishes the National Green Pages, hosts the Social Investment Forum, and promotes a variety of fair trade and socially investing programs.

INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER SERVICES
2099 Gaither Road, Suite 501
Rockville, MD 20850-4045
T 301-556-0500
F 301-556-0491
ISSmarketing@issproxy.com
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
475 Riverside Drive, Room 1842
New York, NY 10115
T 212-870-2295
F 212-870-2023
info@iccr.org
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.

SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
1612 K Street NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC 20006
T 202-872-5319
F 202-822-8471
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
P.O. Box 29221
San Francisco, CA 94129-0221
T 415-561-6501
F 415-561-6435
svn@svn.org
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.


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