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

Codes of Conduct
PDF Format A Global Set of Corporate Standards, 2005
PDF Format Proposal for a Global Set of Corporate Standards, 2004
PDF Format Vendor Code of Conduct Report 
Domestic Access to Capital
PDF Format Avoiding Underwriting and Securitization of Predatory Loans, 2006
PDF Format Avoiding Underwriting and Securitization of Predatory Loans, 2003
PDF Format Develop Suitability Standard for Loans, 2007
PDF Format Subprime Lending Practices, 2003
PDF Format Equal Credit Opportunity - Community Reinvestment, 2006
PDF Format Equal Credit Opportunity - Community Reinvestment, 2004
PDF Format Leading the Housing Market through Conforming to the Community Reinvestment Act (Freddie Mac), 2005
PDF Format Use of Capital Markets to Fund Microfinance, 2006
Nondiscrimination in Business Activities
PDF Format Annual Election of Directors, 2006
PDF Format Annual Elections of Directors, 2003
PDF Format Board Diversity Resolution, 2006
PDF Format Board Diversity Resolution, 2005
PDF Format Board of Directors: Annual Election, 2005
PDF Format Equal Employment Diversity Report, 2007
Sustainability
PDF Format Coffee Crisis Report, 2005
PDF Format Resolution to Disclose Social, Environmental, and Economic Performance, 2003
PDF Format Social/ Environmental/ Economic Sustainability Reporting, 2005
PDF Format Sustainability Report, 2007
PDF Format Sustainability Report to Shareholders, 2004
PDF Format Sustainability Report to Shareholders, 2005
PDF Format Sustainability Report to Shareholders - YUM Brands, 2004
PDF Format Sustainability Report: Environmental Performance, 2005
 

Resources
Trade Week of Action Resource Guide (Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance)