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.
CO-OP
AMERICA
1612 K Street NW, Suite 600
Washington DC 20006
T 800-58-GREEN (584-7336)
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
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.
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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