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If you want to learn more about socially and environmentally responsible shareholder resolutions filed each year, Green America's allied organizations have several resources that can help.
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The 2025 shareholder resolution season is underway – but scaled back from previous years. Shareholders filed 355 environmental, social, and governance proposals as of February 21, 2025 – 34% less than the 536 such proposals in 2024.
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What You Need to Know About Shareholder Activism
Dialogues...proxy voting...resolutions. What does it all mean? How can you use your investments to join shareholder advocacy for corporate responsibility? Below, we give you the basics about how…
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shareholder activism
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If you have a retirement plan or college savings plan, you are an investor. If you own stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or exchange-traded funds, you are an investor. Even your bank account can be considered a form of investing.
Conventional…
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socially responsible investing
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While socially responsible investing has its roots in moral, spiritual, and religious concerns, it has now evolved into the mainstream of investing.
As of 2022, responsible investing accounts for more than $8.4 trillion, or 1 in 8…
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socially responsible investing
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Community investing directs capital to communities and people underserved by conventional financial institutions. It helps lift these communities economically through financing projects such as:
Access to healthy food, education, or…
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While 21% of American families have direct ownership of individual stock, 58% have some exposure to the stock market, according to the Federal Reserve’s 2023 Survey of Consumer Finances.
Most of this…
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socially responsible investing
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What is stock?
Stock, issued in units called shares, represents ownership of a piece of the issuing corporation. Corporations issue stock to raise money for their business operations during their initial public offering (IPO). Stock can then be…
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socially responsible investing
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A common misperception about responsible investing is that it results in lower returns. Not true!
Years of research studies show that responsible investing generates returns as good or better than conventional investing, especially…
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socially responsible investing
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The terms responsible investing and socially responsible investing are comparable to terms such as sustainable investing, values investing, and ESG investing, or investing that takes environment, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors into…
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socially responsible investing
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Socially responsible investing in the United States dates back to the 18th century when Methodists resisted investments in companies involved with the slave trade, smuggling, liquor, tobacco, or gambling. Later the Quakers forbade investments…
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socially responsible investing
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If you have owned just one share of stock in a company for two months, you have a voice in how that company is run. As a shareholder, you can be an advocate for social and environmental issues you care about that are affected by the companies in…
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shareholder advocacy, socially responsible investing
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In life there are many types of investing. You might invest your time by volunteering for a cause in your community. You might invest your energy by working out to increase your health.
In the world of finance, investing usually…
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socially responsible investing
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Responsible investing is a lot like conventional investing. You need to know things like:
What are your investment goals? Examples include a retirement plan or college savings plan – and for most Americans, these plans represent the largest…
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socially responsible investing
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Socially responsible investing goes by many names: sustainable investing, ESG investing, impact investing and more. Whatever it’s called, responsible investing helps you use your investments – including your retirement and college savings plans –…
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socially responsible investing
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) Whether you love shopping for gifts or can’t imagine anything worse, this list of holiday sales from sustainable shops will make everything easier with great gift ideas and green practices.
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This article was originally published in Nasdaq's Purpose in Action Newsletter on November 19, 2024
By Brittany Greene, Purpose Communications Specialist
In celebration of our partners and the great work they do to advance economic…
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socially responsible investing, better banking
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) New Investigation: Climate-Polluting Leaks Detected at Safeway, Walmart and Other Major CA Retailers
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We spoke with Cathy Cowan Becker, Responsible Finance Campaign Director of Green America, on its mission to harnesses economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally…
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