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How can investors know if their portfolios are supporting justice — or inequality? In this timely essay, our CEO Andrew Behar, talks about how 10 years of research led to the launch of Social Justice Funds: https://impactalpha.com/social-justice-funds-a-new-tool-for-values-aligned-investing/
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did your 401(k) earn the “diversity dividend”? A new analysis from As You Sow’s Social Justice Funds explores how retirement fund returns relate to scores on diversity, equity, and inclusion:
https://fossilfreefunds.org/blog/2025/10/30/diversity-dividend-401k-funds.html
The Diversity Dividend in Your 401(k) Funds | Fossil Free Funds | Blog
Results from Social Justice Funds suggest that DEI and financial returns have a positive correlation.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Private prisons for ICE in your 401(k)? Most people have no idea that their retirement savings may be financing the expansion of immigration detention centers. Operators depend on your savings to build and operate facilities:
https://fossilfreefunds.org/blog/2025/10/17/ice-is-in-your-401k.html
ICE is in your 401(k) | Fossil Free Funds | Blog
There’s a hidden connection between your savings and the business of immigrant incarceration.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Colorado investors are proving that shareholder power works when it’s rooted in community. In partnership with the AJL Foundation, As You Sow is piloting a place-based model for engagement:
https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-justice/case-study/harnessing-shareholder-power-in-colorado
Harnessing Shareholder Power in Colorado: A Place-Based Model for Philanthropic, Investor and Corporate Accountability — As You Sow
By anchoring shareholder advocacy in Colorado, a coalition of ten local impact investors and As You Sow brought frontline voices to senior management at 25 Colorado-based public companies. Early wins opened durable channels between communities, investors, and corporate leaders. Going forward, the ca
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November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
💡 Your retirement savings can amplify your desire for social justice. That’s why As You Sow just launched Social Justice Funds: https://fossilfreefunds.org/blog/2025/10/30/introducing-social-justice-funds.html
Introducing Social Justice Funds | Fossil Free Funds | Blog
There’s a new way to align your retirement savings with social justice.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
TODAY: Join us for a webinar at 1 EST to launch Social Justice Funds — a groundbreaking online platform scoring nearly 6,000 mutual funds and ETFs on racial justice, gender equity, workplace diversity, and LGBTQ+ inclusion.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Social Justice Funds Release Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
You believe in justice. You show up, speak out, and push for change in your community and workplace. But what if your retirement savings are quietly working against everything you stand for? Most workplace retirement plans and mutual funds invest in business-as-usual: fossil fuels, private prisons, and corporations that perpetuate systemic bias, reinforce structural racism, widen the gender pay gap, and inflict harm on historically marginalized communities. This is a story we’re hearing more and more, and it’s exactly why we've created Social Justice Funds. Through our Invest Your Values...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join us Thursday, October 30 for a first look at Social Justice Funds, the newest pillar in our Invest Your Values platform. Learn how transparency and justice drives growth.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Social Justice Funds Release Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
You believe in justice. You show up, speak out, and push for change in your community and workplace. But what if your retirement savings are quietly working against everything you stand for? Most workplace retirement plans and mutual funds invest in business-as-usual: fossil fuels, private prisons, and corporations that perpetuate systemic bias, reinforce structural racism, widen the gender pay gap, and inflict harm on historically marginalized communities. This is a story we’re hearing more and more, and it’s exactly why we've created Social Justice Funds. Through our Invest Your Values...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
In a new essay, our own Kendyl Van Dyck unpacks why active ownership is a powerful force for much needed corporate accountability and a material driver of long-term business growth. https://www.six-invest.com.au/blog/shareholder-advocacy-makes-business-sense
October 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📉📈 Are companies really “slashing” diversity programs? Or are the headlines missing the bigger picture? Don’t just skim the headlines — read the real story here on @impactalpha.com: impactalpha.com/workplace-di...
Workplace diversity still drives outperformance – and executives know it
Explore how diversity drives outperformance in corporate America and its impact on financial success over time.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
2025 is proving that shareholder engagement on climate, DEI, and political spending haven’t disappeared—they’ve matured. Here's insights at the mid-point of the season published by our own Danielle Fugere in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance

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ESG Proposals at Mid-Season 2025: Trends, Turbulence & Triumphs
As the 2025 proxy season passes its high point, several patterns have emerged in the engagement, filing, and voting outcomes of shareholder proposals. ...
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June 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Elon isn’t the only one upset about the big ugly budget bill. Responsible shareholders are sounding the alarm that pulling the plug on these crucial clean energy investments "weakens the innovation that fueled America’s economy." Read the article via @impactalpha.com
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The ugly details of the Big Beautiful Bill's damage to US clean energy competitiveness
There is nothing beautiful about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s obstruction of US clean energy progress and American economic competitiveness. Investors in ...
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June 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Obstructing US clean energy progress puts "the US at a competitive disadvantage with geopolitical rivals like China,"
write Danielle Fugere and Diana Myers of the nonprofit shareholder advocacy organization @asyousow.bsky.social.

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The ugly details of the Big Beautiful Bill's damage to US clean energy competitiveness
There is nothing beautiful about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s obstruction of US clean energy progress and American economic competitiveness. Investors in ...
impactalpha.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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No better way to start the week than by checking if your investments are tied to weapons manufacturers! Grant Bradski explains the basics of ethical investing and @asyousow.bsky.social's Weapons Free Funds tool 💸

Video on our Story Center 📽️
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Investing in a Peaceful Future - VIDEO - Ploughshares
This video explores how investing and retirement savings finance arms manufacturers and controversial military weapons.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This clip gets into ethical investing, where investing can go wrong, and what you can do to check your investment work. @asyousow.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Everyone’s talking about the planet warming emissions from fossil fuel energy powering massive AI servers at Google and elsewhere. More people need to realize that there will be a increased competitive advantage for Big Tech firms that tackle this challenge head on: impactalpha.com/alphabet-sha...
Alphabet shareholders ask, can Big Tech scale AI and still meet climate goals?
Here’s an eye opening stat: US-located data centers powering AI are predicted to consume up to 12% of the total national electricity supply ...
impactalpha.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Deep Seabed Mining is a solution looking for a problem. And while a recent Executive Order threatens to accelerate this destructive new industry, technological advances and circular principles will leave it dead in the water:

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Deep Sea Mining: A Solution in Search of a Problem — As You Sow
A recent U.S. Executive Order promoting deep-sea mining (DSM) threatens to turn a pristine wilderness into yet another industrial sacrifice zone in pursuit of minerals that are available terrestrial...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Way to go, @asyousow.bsky.social “PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz both faced calls this week on plastic packaging from shareholder advocacy group, As You Sow.”
www.wsj.com/articles/bev...
Beverage and Snack Giants Defend Sustainable-Packaging Plans Amid Investor Pressure
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Kraft Heinz, facing criticism from activist investors, say plastic-reduction progress continues
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May 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Across the US, more than 2,000 coal ash ponds – swamps of waste generated by coal-burning power plants – pose a threat to human health and groundwater.

“Buried within these toxic dumps is a gold mine of opportunities,” writes @asyousow.bsky.social's Andrew Behar.

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From waste to wealth: Turning coal’s toxic legacy into a clean energy future
Explore coal ash remediation and its potential to transform toxic waste into opportunities for health and jobs.
impactalpha.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Rather than open new fronts of environmental destruction like Deep Sea Mining, we could be extracting rare earth minerals from coal ash waste. Read the latest from our own Andrew Behar on how to feed two birds with one scone on @impactalpha.com.
impactalpha.com/from-waste-t...
From waste to wealth: Turning coal’s toxic legacy into a clean energy future
Explore coal ash remediation and its potential to transform toxic waste into opportunities for health and jobs.
impactalpha.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A new Executive Order would invest massive U.S. resources to propel deep-sea mining, a costly and destructive mining process that dredges the deep sea floor. Read our full statement: www.asyousow.org/press-releas...
Deep-Sea Mining Executive Order Fast-Tracks Destructive Ocean Mining — As You Sow
Yesterday’s Executive Order would invest massive U.S. resources to propel deep-sea mining, a costly and destructive mining process that dredges the deep sea floor.
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April 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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ESG-related shareholder resolutions are down 34% this year as the Trump administration galvanizes the movement against “woke investing,” according to an annual report from @asyousow.bsky.social and Proxy Impact. @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/business/tru...
How Trump’s war on climate and equity is impacting ‘woke investing’
Shifting political and regulatory winds have led to fewer shareholder resolutions on environmental and social issues.
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April 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”
April 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Now more than ever, shareholders can reject false narratives, stand firm in our free-market principles, and make good business decisions based on data – not politics. Read the full Publisher's letter for Proxy Preview from our CEO Andrew Behar: impactalpha.com/proxy-previe...
Proxy Preview 2025: Materiality over politics drives shareholder resilience
Explore how ESG shareholders take on proxy votes to support diversity and equity and ESG initiatives at major companies.
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April 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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"But there’s hope for a peaceful future: we can cut financial ties to militarism and invest in peace and people over war and violence." Check out our latest Story Center post from Grant Bradski at @asyousow.bsky.social to learn more.
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The Humanitarian Impacts and Investment Risks of Conventional Weapons - Ploughshares
While conventional weapons may be more targeted than indiscriminate controversial weapons, the humanitarian impacts of their usage have proliferated across the world. But there’s hope for a peaceful f...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM