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Tim Smith is the director of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) shareholder engagement at Boston Trust Walden which was formerly known as Walden Asset Management. Smith works to promote left-of-center policies on the environment and social issues at private businesses in which his firm invests. Smith and his firm
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Calvert Research and Management (also known as Calvert Investment Capital) is a socially and environmentally left-of-center investment company. Founded in 1976, it had $17.8 billion in managed assets as of June 30, 2019.
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Miller/Howard Investments is a private firm which manages investment portfolios for a range of clients, including high net worth individual investors and large institutions. 1 Miller/Howard focuses on managing portfolios targeted towards left-of-center policy in
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Domini Impact Investments (formerly Domini Social Investments) is a for-profit investment advisory group that engages in impact investing and shareholder activism in favor of left-leaning causes such as gun control and environmentalism. It has $2.4 billion in assets under management and offers two equity funds and a bond fund.
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Edith (Dee) P. Homans is a member of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a group of investors who focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, and use corporate engagement to promote a left-of-center agenda.
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Elaine Wells is a shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and in 2017 submitted a shareholder proposal specifically targeting its insurance division. Wells’ resolution claimed that climate change has the potential to affect the insurance industry, and that Berkshire Hathaway ought to investigate, analyze, and report these effects to shareholders. The
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Midwest Coalition for Responsible Investment (MCRI) is an interfaith shareholder engagement organization based in St. Louis. Founded in 1977, MCRI works with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility to advocate left-of-center “corporate social responsibility” policies.
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Christopher Hohn is an English hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist with a personal fortune of £1.2 billion (approximately $1.56 billion) as of 2019
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Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship (CRS) was founded in 1999 as the REP Environmental Education Foundation, changing its name in 2012. CRS is the charitable arm of Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), which has been doing business as ConservAmerica since 2012. Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship attempts to be a critical
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Daniel Altschuler is the managing director of the left-of-center advocacy group Make the Road Action and the civic engagement and research coordinator at the affiliated Make the Road New York (MRNY). He is a political scientist, organizer,
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David Brook is an individual shareholder with a focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues who uses corporate engagement to promote a left-of-center environmental agenda. Brook is a shareholder of Lowe’s, Home Depot, and FMC Corp, and has been submitting resolution proposals since 2011.
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Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) is a film production company founded by Jeffrey Skoll, a left-leaning billionaire who was formerly the president of eBay.
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The Skoll Fund was founded by billionaire philanthropist Jeffrey Skoll,1 also the founder of Participant, a firm that produces films such as An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006 documentary featuring former Vice
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Jeffrey Skoll is a left-leaning billionaire and former president of eBay. He has since become founder of the film production firm Participant, and a network of grantmaking foundations that include the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll Fund, and the Skoll Global Threats Fund. In 2019, Forbes
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Clean Yield Asset Management is a financial investment firm that promotes environmentalist-aligned investments said to be free of conventional energy. The firm also launches shareholder resolutions to push policies at certain businesses. Background Clean Yield Asset Management is Vermont-based financial investment firm promotes environmentalist investments into companies that align with
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The Green Science Policy Institute (GSPI) is an environmentalist advocacy organization that opposes the use of various chemicals. Founded by Arlene Blum in 2008, it was formerly a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs.
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Alison Carlson is the founder of the Passport Foundation and the Forsythia Foundation, two environmentalist grantmaking foundations. After a personal health scare, Carlson became involved in numerous scientific and activist efforts regarding environmental toxins. In 2007, she co-founded the Passport Foundation with her now-ex-husband John Burbank. Three years
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Not to be confused with the ClearPath Foundation, ClearPath Action, or ClearPath. The ClearPath Action Fund for Conservative Clean Energy (formerly America Leads) is the related advocacy arm of the ClearPath Foundation. It advocates for clean energy initiatives under the direction of businessman Jay Faison.
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We Are Still In is a coalition of state and local governments, businesses, investors, universities, and other organizations created by the left-of-center Bloomberg Philanthropies to support the Paris Climate Accords, an environmentalist agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, not submitted to the United States Senate for ratification, and
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Earthrise Alliance is a left-of-center environmentalist climate advocacy group. The organization uses satellite imagery to document the changes to the natural environment. The organization advocates for a change in NASA policy that would make combating climate change the organization’s main mission. Earthrise Alliance is a project of the Windward
