In New York, the State Comptroller is sole trustee of the New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF). Under this model, Comptroller DiNapoli is directly accountable for the performance, oversight and management of the Fund. In addition to fund management, the New York State Comptroller’s Office submits and supports shareholder resolutions that promote responsible social and corporate governance practices.

NJCIR Mission: The National Jesuit Committee on Investment Responsibility advocates for corporate behavior consistent with Catholic social teaching, through dialogues with corporations, shareholder resolutions and proxy voting.

Founded by Amy Domini in 1987, The Sustainability Group now manages over $950 million of assets using socially responsible criteria. <P> <P> Guided by our commitment to universal human dignity and ecological sustainability, we seek to invest in companies that acknowledge their impact on our world and work to beneficially transform the way the world does business. <p> <p> As shareholders, we recognize our own responsibility to use our leverage to help the voiceless and to demand an ecology in which humankind can thrive. While we don’t seek perfection in our companies, we do hold them accountable for their impact on society and expect to see progress over time. We use our standing as shareholders and partner with like-minded investors to engage constructively with companies and encourage them to take appropriate actions toward sustainability.

The Singing Field Foundation is a small family foundation. Our grants provide mainly general support for organizations and programs in the areas of environment, animal welfare and health, and other causes of personal interest to family members. The foundation is committed to a strategy of Mission Related Investing as a means of advancing our charitable mission, increasing our impact on issues we care about, and ensuring closer alignment between our investment practices and our personal values. The Foundation's investments are managed by Clean Yield Asset Management, with these objectives in mind. Our grant making includes support for two nonprofits who are leaders in the field of Mission Related Investing, As You Sow and Confluence Philanthropy. We have engaged the services of Confluence Philanthropy to vote the foundation's proxies on environmental, social and corporate governance matters and to make information on those votes and the underlying rationale available via the Moxy Vote online platform. Inquiries related to the Foundation's proxy voting practices may be made to Confluence Philanthropy. The Singing Field Foundation does not maintain a web site at this time and is not able to accept or respond to unsolicited requests for funding. The Foundation has no professional staff, and grants are initiated by the Foundation's Directors.

We work to balance our clients' social and political concerns with their financial objectives. Since our inception in 1990, one of our primary goals has been to help our clients become comfortable with and empowered by their financial knowledge. Through an educational process, the client and the financial manager examine the financial and social impact of each investment and then take action through investment, divestment, shareholder activism, and strategic charitable giving.

The Center for Social Philanthropy (C-SocPhil) is a nonprofit social enterprise providing research, resources, tools and consulting services on philanthropic and investment strategies for pursuing long-term, sustainable social and environmental impact. The Center is housed at Tellus Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit research and policy organization pursuing a “Great Transition” to a future of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability.

Founded in 1984, FreedomWorks is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has hundreds of thousands of grassroots volunteers nationwide. The organization is chaired by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey and the President is Matt Kibbe. FreedomWorks members know that government goes to those who show up, and are leading the fight for lower taxes, less government, and more freedom. Join us! <P> <P> FreedomWorks drives policy change by training and mobilizing grassroots Americans to engage their fellow citizens and encourage their political representatives to act in defense of individual freedom and economic opportunity.

Our Mission is to create a sustainable system that holds corporations accountable to shareholders, communities and other stakeholders throughout the world. ProxyAnalyst educates investors about their rights and duties to monitor and make change in the corporations in which they are invested. ProxyAnalyst follows the important corporate governance and shareholder votes arising at public companies. We identify the important issues that affect investors with the aim of improving corporate conduct, its impact on our capital markets and our society. Finally, we help investors make a difference by providing tools for making needed change in corporations so that short-term profit taking at all costs is no longer the norm. Join us in this effort. Become a better-informed investor. Vote your proxies. Engage for a more sustainable and profitable economy for all.

The Sustainable Investment Group, or SIG, (formerly the Socially Responsible Investment Organization) strives to introduce students at the University of Virginia to sustainable investing and to explore the role of sustainability in creating value in the modern business world. The group maintains a student-run investment portfolio seeking long-term capital appreciation by investing in firms well-positioned to capitalize on sustainable trends. The organization also endeavors to create a forum for students, faculty members, and investment professionals to discuss trends and gain expertise in this increasingly relevant field. <p> <p> CREATE a forum through which students can interact and network with professionals and specialists within the sustainable investment and business community, as well as with each other. <p> <p> EDUCATE university students on the value of investing in companies that incorporate sustainability into their business models and how sustainable trends are changing the competitive dynamics of business. <p> <p> RAISE awareness of the growing role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in the modern business setting and the emergence of sustainable investments across asset classes. <p> <p> MAINTAIN an actively managed student-run investment fund that seeks to develop novel approaches to analyzing sustainability-related issues, to identify risks and opportunities relating to those issues, and to exploit corresponding market inefficiencies. <p> <p> BUILD strong relationships between sustainable investment firms, experts in the field of environmental and social sustainability, University students, and the University of Virginia. <p> <p> ANALYZE the successes and shortcomings of current sustainable investment policies through research and the creation of a student-run investment portfolio.