Walden Asset Management has been a leader in socially responsive investing since 1975, managing our clients' assets to meet both their unique financial and social investment objectives. While many investors are satisfied with competitive returns, our clients want to achieve that and more. They value working with an asset management firm that pursues a rigorous, disciplined investment approach. At the same time, they understand that with share ownership comes the potential to influence how companies conduct their business, and they wish to pursue this opportunity.

Your Neighborhood Union. We work in front of customers and behind the scenes. Look for us stocking produce in a supermarket aisle, slicing a cut of beef before it is delivered to a grocery store, taking a child’s temperature in a hospital, making the blue jeans your children wear to school or selling those jeans in a local department store. We are North America’s Neighborhood Union—1.3 million members standing together to improve the lives and livelihoods of workers, families, and communities.

UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. UUSC envisions a world free from oppression and injustice, where all can realize their full human rights. Through a combination of advocacy, education, and partnerships with grassroots organizations, UUSC promotes economic rights, advances environmental justice, defends civil liberties, and preserves the rights of people in times of humanitarian crisis.

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a religious organization that combines two traditions: the Universalists, who organized in 1793, and the Unitarians, who organized in 1825. Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion with Jewish-Christian roots. It has no creed. It affirms the worth of human beings, advocates freedom of belief and the search for advancing truth, and tries to provide a warm, open, supportive community for people who believe that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion.

A pioneer and leader in the social investment industry, Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”) is the oldest and largest independent investment management firm in the U.S. exclusively devoted to sustainable and responsible investing. Since 1982, individual and institutional clients have chosen Trillium because of our emphasis on personalized service, an investment discipline providing consistent and competitive returns, and our deep commitment to advancing environmental sustainability, social justice and human rights through innovative investment, research, and advocacy.

The Nathan Cummings Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community. We seek to build a socially and economically just society that values and protects the ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts and culture that enriches communities.

The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization—backed by 11 million Americans, or one in every 28. Established in 1954, The HSUS seeks a humane and sustainable world for all animals—a world that will also benefit people. We are America's mainstream force against cruelty, exploitation and neglect, as well as the most trusted voice extolling the human-animal bond. Our mission statement: Celebrating Animals, Confronting Cruelty.

The mission of the Free Enterprise Project is to promote the virtues of capitalism and defend our free enterprise system from unwarranted government and social activist interference that hampers innovation and economic growth. The Free Enterprise Project educates the public and investors about CEOs who seek short-term profit by designing their business strategies to align with the social and political goals of government and progressive activists. Through shareholder and grassroots activism the Free Enterprise Project exposes corporate actions that have the potential to harm both long-term investors and individual liberty. Companies that seek to bypass the competitive marketplace by working deals with the progressive movement will targeted by our program.

We strive to introduce students at the University of Virginia to socially responsible investing and to explore the role of corporate social responsibility in the modern business world.