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2014 Annual Meeting: 9:00 AM EDT, Thursday, May 22, 2014 Cobb Galeria Center, 2 Galleria Parkway SE, Atlanta, Georgia, 30339 Home Depot has one pending ESG shareholder proposal in 2014. SOCIAL: Diversity in the Workplace … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 2:00 PM EDT, Thursday, May 22, 2014 Sofitel San Francisco Bay, 223 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065 Facebook has three pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. POLITICAL ACTIVITY: Political Spending … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 10:00 AM EDT, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, IL 60077 Mondelez has one pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Recyclable Packaging … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 5:00 PM EDT, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 Google has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. POLITICAL ACTIVITY: Lobbying This resolution from Walden Asset Management … MORE >

High Stakes Over Data Privacy Patrick Doherty Director, Corporate Governance Office of the New York State Comptroller Disclosures of data monitoring programs run by the National Security Agency highlight the increasingly complex relationship between legitimate … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 10:00 AM EDT, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Omni Houston Hotel at Westside, 13210 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas 77079 ConocoPhillips has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: GHG Reduction Targets This … MORE >

Proxy Season Update – 2014 Annual Meeting: 9:00 AM EDT, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Anadarko has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. MORE >

Proxy Season Update – Advocacy Position from Danielle Fugere, President & Chief Counsel, As You Sow MORE >

Proxy Voting is Easier Than You Think Jonathan Scott President and Director, Singing Field Foundation In 2013 I was at a gathering of foundations and individuals involved in environmental and social change philanthropy. Not surprisingly, … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 8:00 AM EDT, Thursday, May 8, 2014 Hotel du Pont, 11th and Market Streets, Wilmington, Delaware 19801 UPS has one pending ESG shareholder proposal in 2014. POLITICAL ACTIVITY: Lobbying This resolution from … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 10:00 AM EDT, Thursday, May 8, 2014 Charlotte Marriott City Center, 100 West Trade Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 Bank of America has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Financing … MORE >

Risk and Opportunity of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) Reductions Aaron Ziulkowski Senior ESG Analyst, Walden Asset Management In September 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading scientific authority on climate change, … MORE >

Enhancing Shareholder Democracy Through Proxy Access Laura Campos Director of Shareholder Activities, Nathan Cummings Foundation When the SEC released its final proxy access rule in November 2010, investors hailed the development as a significant step … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 9:00 AM EDT, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 North Carolina History Center at Tryon Palace, 529 South Front Street, New Bern, North Carolina 28562 Pepsi has one pending ESG shareholder proposal in 2014. … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 9:30 AM EDT, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 The Glen Club, 2901 West Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60026 Kraft has four pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Non-Recyclable Packaging As You Sow … MORE >

Strong Shareholder Vote Leads McDonald’s to Abandon Foam Cups Conrad MacKerron Senior Program Director, As You Sow A shareholder resolution filed in 2011 by As You Sow at McDonald’s, the world’s largest chain of hamburger … MORE >

Land Grabs by Food and Beverage Companies Michelle Katz Policy Advisor, Private Sector Department, Oxfam America Oxfam’s Behind the Brands, an initiative evaluating the social and environmental policies of the ten largest food and beverage … MORE >

Palm Oil a Major Source of Greenhouse Gases Rob Berridge Senior Manager of Investor Programs, Ceres Investors are working to slow the rate of tropical deforestation and promote sustainable agriculture for three main reasons: 1) … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 10:00 AM EST, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Boston Marriott Quincy, 1000 Marriott Drive, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169 Dunkin’ has one pending ESG shareholder proposal in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Nanomaterials in Food As You Sow … MORE >

Questions Arise in Widespread Use of Nanotechnology Austin Wilson Environmental Health Program, As You Sow Susan Williams Analyst, Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating matter at the molecular scale to create … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 11:30 AM EST, Friday, May 2, 2014Bravo Ballroom, Hotel Derek, 2525 West Loop South, Houston, Texas Occidental has three pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Methane Accounting The explosion of domestic … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders: 11:00 AM EST, Wednesday, April 30, 2014Conference Center Auditorium, Marathon Oil Tower, 5555 San Felipe Street, Houston, Texas 77056 Verizon has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. POLITICAL ACTIVITY: … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders: 11:00 AM EST, Wednesday, April 30, 2014Conference Center Auditorium, Marathon Oil Tower, 5555 San Felipe Street, Houston, Texas 77056 Marathon has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Methane … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 10:00 AM EST, Tuesday, April 29, 2014Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, Jacksonville, Florida IBM has one pending ESG shareholder proposal in 2014. POLITICAL ACTIVITY: Lobbying This resolution asks for annual reports … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 9:00 AM EDT, Friday, April 25, 2014Rivermill Event Centre, River View Room, 3715 1st Ave., Columbus, GA, 31904 AT&T has three pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. POLITICAL ACTIVITY: Lobbying This resolution … MORE >

Corporate Political Spending Disclosure Bruce FreedPresident, Center for Political Accountability “Dark money” spending by third-party political organizations poses an even more serious risk to companies as they face growing pressures to contribute. To address the … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 8:00 AM EDT, Friday, April 25, 2014Abbott Laboratories, 100 Abbott Park Road, Abbott Park, Illinois 60064 Abbot Laboratories has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Genetically Modified Foods As You … MORE >

2014 Annual Meeting: 10:30 AM EDT, Wednesday, April 23, 2014DuPont Theatre in the DuPont Building, 1007 Market St., Wilmington, DE 19898 DuPont has two pending ESG shareholder proposals in 2014. ENVIRONMENT: Genetically Modified Foods and … MORE >

GMOs: Why is this Still Investor-Worthy News? Margaret WeberCorporate Responsibility Director, Congregation of St. Basil of Toronto The mantra from the seed and the food industries goes like this: “Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been … MORE >

Lobbying Disclosure Request Highlights ALEC Controversy John KeenanCorporate Governance Analyst, AFSCME Capital Strategies For 2014, the investor call for corporate lobbying disclosure remains a top shareholder topic, with 60 investors filing 50 proposals asking for … MORE >

If you own shares in a company, you have a voice. Shareholder advocacy leverages the power of stock ownership to promote social change. In the past 30 years, thousands of resolutions filed with companies by … MORE >