Sentences with phrase «through shareholder advocacy»

The Proxy Preview 2015 report was produced via collaboration between As You Sow, a nonprofit organization that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy and innovative legal strategies; the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), which conducts impartial research on social and environmental share - holder proposals; and Proxy Impact, a shareholder advocacy and proxy voting service for foundations, endowments and socially responsible investors.

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Its Energy, Environmental Health, Waste, and Human Rights programs create positive, industry - wide change through corporate dialogue, shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies.

With a background in civil rights advocacy, Amina has a special appreciation for the impact of working for social and economic justice through investing and shareholder engagement.

• Asset managers (and their clients) that understand the benefits of ESG investing often engage directly with companies through various forms of shareholder advocacy, providing direct pressure to improve sustainability performance.

In a lovely bit of shareholder advocacy, Morrison writes, «The risks from poor legal advice also loom for companies, and also affect the same constituents, yet to my knowledge no third party assesses companies comparatively on the quality of their legal staff, the adequacy of their in - house legal resources, the legal surefootedness of their outside counsel, the protections provided their intellectual property, the liabilities faced by them through regulatory and judicial proceedings, and the adroitness of management practices.»