Business Practices
The CSR program engages businesses around a range of social, environmental, and financial issues. We ask them to bear more fully the wider social and environmental costs of what they produce. We ask businesses to commit to hire without discrimination and we as a church will support legislation, ordinances, and resolutions that guarantee equality to all persons. We ask financial institutions to ensure that new ways of providing low-income people with assistance and services do not sacrifice the most vulnerable for the sake of economic efficiency and profit.
Social Statements
Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All
Issue Papers
Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All: Code of Conduct
Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All: Domestic Access to Capital
Freed in Christ: Nondiscrimination in Business Activities
Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All: Sustainability
Shareholder Resolutions
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A Global Set of Corporate Standards, 2005 |
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Proposal for a Global Set of Corporate Standards, 2004 |
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Vendor Code of Conduct Report |
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| Domestic Access to Capital |
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Avoiding Underwriting and Securitization of Predatory Loans, 2006 |
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Avoiding Underwriting and Securitization of Predatory Loans, 2003 |
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Develop Suitability Standard for Loans, 2007 |
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Subprime Lending Practices, 2003 |
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Equal Credit Opportunity - Community Reinvestment, 2006 |
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Equal Credit Opportunity - Community Reinvestment, 2004 |
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Leading the Housing Market through Conforming to the Community Reinvestment Act (Freddie Mac), 2005 |
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Use of Capital Markets to Fund Microfinance, 2006 |
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| Nondiscrimination in Business Activities |
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Annual Election of Directors, 2006 |
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Annual Elections of Directors, 2003 |
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Board Diversity Resolution, 2006 |
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Board Diversity Resolution, 2005 |
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Board of Directors: Annual Election, 2005 |
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Equal Employment Diversity Report, 2007 |
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| Sustainability |
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Coffee Crisis Report, 2005 |
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Resolution to Disclose Social, Environmental, and Economic Performance, 2003 |
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Social/ Environmental/ Economic Sustainability Reporting, 2005 |
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Sustainability Report, 2007 |
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Sustainability Report to Shareholders, 2004 |
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Sustainability Report to Shareholders, 2005 |
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Sustainability Report to Shareholders - YUM Brands, 2004 |
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Sustainability Report: Environmental Performance, 2005 |
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Resources
Trade Week of Action Resource Guide (Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance)