Economic Social Criteria Investment Screens

Church Council Actions

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) gives expression to this church's concern for corporate social responsibility - both in its internal affairs and in its interaction in the broader society - through exercising its rights as a corporate shareholder on issues of social concern. This is accomplished through screening of stock ownership, casting of shareholder ballots, filing of shareholder resolutions, and dialogue with corporations to address these concerns. For churchwide units that are separately incorporated, the ELCA makes recommendations regarding shareholder action. Individual Lutherans may also apply this concern within their own portfolios. [Learn more]

• Alcohol Social Criteria Screen
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – April 21-23, 1990
  Updated by the Advisory Committee for Corporate Social Responsibility – May 24, 2007
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2007



• Community Economic Development Social Criteria Screen
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 13, 1988
  Updated by the Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – May 6, 2008
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2008



• Environmental Social Criteria Screen
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – April 21-23, 1990
  Updated by the Advisory Committee for Corporate Social Responsibility – May 24, 2007
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2007
  
  
• Gambling Social Criteria Screen
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – April 21-23, 1990
  Updated by the Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – May 6, 2008
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2008



• Military Weapons Social Criteria Screen 
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 13, 1988
  Updated by the Advisory Committee for Corporate Social Responsibility – January 22, 2007
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2007



• Pornography Social Criteria Screen
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – April 21-23, 1990
  Updated by the Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – September 8, 2006
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2007
  
  
• Tobacco Social Criteria Screen
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – April 21-23, 1990
  Updated by the Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – September 8, 2006
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2007
  Approved by the ELCA Church Council – November 2012