Links

NOTE: Inclusion of these links is provided as a service to our members and the general public. Their inclusion does not mean that SRIC or its member organizations agree with all opinions expressed on these websites, nor does inclusion mean an endorsement by SRIC. They are provided for informational and research purposes only. If any links don't work, please send an e-mail and let us know.

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General Links

CALPERS-California Public Employees’ Retirement System: the largest public pension system in the nation; it has been very active in many corporate responsibility issues

Council of Institutional Investors: reports on initiatives taken by corporations when shareholders voted in a majority for resolutions and news on what actions are being taken by institutional investors

Good Money: provides information about how ordinary people can use the power of their money as investors, consumers and businesspeople to bring about the changes necessary to improve social and economic conditions throughout the world

ICCR: a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement involving an association of 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors who press companies to be socially and environmentally responsible

Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini & Co. (KLD): provider of social research for institutional investors. including research tailored to the needs of investment professionals; continually improves the quality and range of products available to social investors

SocialFunds.com: provides news, information, research, investment analysis, and financial services; for personal research, try the Education, Funds, Tools areas and The SocialFunds Investor newsletter

Social Investment Forum: resource for individuals looking for information on socially responsible investing

United for a Fair Economy: raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart

Investment Firms

Aquinas Funds: member of SRIC, a Catholic family of mutual funds, and a leader in socially responsible investing and corporate responsibility

Ave Maria Investment Funds: designed specifically for morally responsible investors who are looking for financially sound investments in companies that do not violate core teachings of the Catholic Church

Calvert Group: one of the nation's premiere socially responsible investment funds

Domini Social Investments: one of the leaders in socially responsible investing involved in 3 important areas: Screening, Shareholder Activism and Community Development

Ethical Investing: dedicated to providing investment resources, including stocks and mutual fund investment resources, to those who are looking to make ethical investments

Pax World Mutual Funds: manages more than $2.6 billion in assets and offers investors and their financial advisors a variety of mutual funds and managed account opportunities

Trillium Asset Management: management firm dedicated to professional, high quality, individualized service for their valued clients

Walden Asset Management: manages their clients' assets to achieve their specific financial and social objectives

Corporate Responsibility Links

AFL-CIO Executive Pay-watch: information on executive compensation and a resource for examining the objections to outlandish executive pay

Business for Social Responsibility: global resource providing members with innovative products and services that help companies be commercially successful in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment

Corporate Watch: watchdog that monitors activities of transnational corporations and their social, ecological, and economic impacts; also includes a manual on how to research corporations, news and analysis about transnationals, and links to hundreds of related sites.

Hoovers Business Information: brief profiles on companies and specific information quickly, such as their addresses and current top executives

Investor Responsibility Resource Center (IRRC): organization that monitors corporate responsiblity in a variety of different issues; includes reports on various companies in relation to the issues.

Northwest Corporate Accountability Project: explains what shareholder resolutions are, how to file for them, how to invest in mutual funds; also has links for other corporate social responsibility related sites - information is circa 1997

Securities & Exchange Commission: official site of the SEC and includes some very useful information including 10-K reports, which often give more information than the company annual report

Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures: features reports from the US and around the world on efforts made toward integrating the self, nature, and community life in a responsible way; helping to shape and support sustainable cultures and communities worldwide

Environmental Links

Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES): brings together environmentalists and socially responsible investors in collaboration on issues of environmental sustainability

Environmental Working Group: based in Washington D.C., EWG provides environmental news and reports and gives reports specific to Texas, as well as other areas of the country

Friends of the Earth: national environmental organization dedicated to preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future generations

Green Net: networking for the Environment, Peace, Human Rights and Development

Sustainable Energy & Economic Development Coalition (SEED): alliance of individuals, business, and organizations advocating sustainable energy strategies for texas, including use of renewables and conservation

Climate Change

EPA Global Warming Web Site: information on the science and projected impacts of climate change, U.S. Government policy, the U.S. Climate Change Action Plan, EPA's State and Local Outreach programs and quarterly newsletter "Inside the Greenhouse"

Union of Concerned Scientists: works to ensure that all people have clean air and energy, as well as safe and sufficient food

Genetically Modified Food

Alliance for Bio-Integrity: information on Genetically Modified foods and their perceived health dangers, an examination of the labeling question, and information on a lawsuit filed by religious leaders and scientists against the US FDA

Campaign for Food Safety: clearing house that regularly updates its website with recent press clippings and news reports regarding genetic engineering

Consumers Union Food Safety Page: variety of press releases and articles on various aspects of food safety, including genetic engineering, irradiation and bovine growth hormone

Friends of the Earth - Safer Food, Safer Farms Campaign: a U.S. voice of an influential, international network of grassroots groups in 70 countries

GreenPeace: environmental group that has been very effective as one of the leaders against genetic modification in Europe, and scored a recent victory in Gerber Foods and Heinz Corp. decisions to keep GM materials out of their baby foods

International Food Information Council: supported primarily by the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industries, contains pro-genetic food modification quotes from various sources

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: their mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable rural communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy

Union of Concerned Scientists: gives well organized overview of industrial agriculture, biotechnology and its pros and cons

Community Reinvestment Links

Center for Community Change: work helping people build organizations and create better communities and policiesthrough community development, community organizing, leadership training, coalition-building, housing, welfare reform, jobs, economic development, banking and reinvestment, and Native American issues

Consumers Union Finance Page: press releases of Consumers Union on a variety of finance issues, including fair lending, bank fees and other issues

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council: Need to know how your bank is doing in community reinvestment? How many loans it has originated for small business or community development? Want to get its current CRA rating? This is the place for you!

National Community Reinvestment Coalition: vanguard of a growing community reinvestment movement in which community leaders from across the nation, in urban and rural areas, are becoming educated about, and active in, efforts on how to affect the flow of credit and the provision of banking services in their neighborhoods

Office of Comptroller of Currency: access to Community Reinvestment Act information, including current bank ratings and a list of banks to be rated and dates

Trade and Maquiladora Links

Child Labor Coalition: national network for the exchange of information about child labor

Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras: seeks to pressure U.S. transnational corporations to adopt socially responsible practices, a safe environment and work conditions within the maquiladora industry

Fair Trade Federation: association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide

Global Exchange: non-profit research, international, trade and education center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world

International Labor Organization (ILO): formulates international labor standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labor rights

International Forum on Globalization: alliance of 60 leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers, and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to the rapidly emerging economic and political arrangement called the global economy

Maquila Solidarity Network: promotes solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America and Asia that are organizing in maquiladora factories and attempting to win a living wage

National Labor Committee: educates and involves the public in actions aimed at ending labor abuses, improving living conditions for workers and their families, and promoting the concept of a living wage and independent monitoring

Human Rights Links

African Human Rights Resource Center: compilation of links, articles, and documents which provide Africa-specific human rights information

Human Rights in Action: project will help students understand the idea of human rights, gain a sense of themselves as people with dignity and hence with rights, and finally encourage them to act

Human Rights Watch: seek to curb abuses regardless of whether the victims are well-known political activists or those of lesser visibility such as factory workers, peasant farmers, undocumented migrants, women forced into prostitution, street children, or domestic workers

Human Rights Web: contains extensive Human rights History; methods in which to become involved in present day activism; famous and important documents, and links to other Human Right’s sites

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance

International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions: industry-based world labor federation dedicated to practical international solidarity… It aims to unite workers irrespective of race, nationality, gender or creed

International Labor Organization (ILO): formulates international labor standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labor rights

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: organization dedicated to freedom and dignity, for justice and the rule of law, for equal opportunity and a better future

US Department of State: site for the State Department, with news, facts, etc.

Media Links

American City Business Journals: nation's publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, serving 41 of the country's most vibrant markets, with approximately 3.2 million readers

Essential Information: provides provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policymakers

National Public Radio: NPR's website with access to transcripts of past broadcasts