2023 was a rollercoaster year, with record-setting shareholder impact. Twenty-three companies committed to release EEO-1 forms and at least two of the three inclusion factors by 2025, including Bank of America, Bank of NY Mellon, eBay, Ford, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Raytheon, Southern Co, and Target. Additionally, we launched our new Biodiversity Program, which focuses on corporations’ contribution to global biodiversity loss.
2022 was a remarkable year for shareholder voices. 38 companies, including Nike, Procter & Gamble, Uber, and Charles Schwab, took explicit steps to improve their racial justice and workplace equities policies and practices.
As You Sow holds corporations accountable. We directly engage CEOs, senior management, and institutional investors to promote environmentally and socially responsible business practices. 2021 saw a major expansion in shareholder power, with EIGHT majority votes spanning multiple issue areas.
2020 saw a major escalation in shareholder power, with FOUR majority votes and an order of magnitude increase in the number of shareholders authorizing As You Sow resolutions.
2019 highlights from our corporate engagements: We filed 93 resolutions accounting for $1.1 trillion in shareholder value.
2018 highlights from our corporate engagements: We filed 39 resolutions with 36 companies, on behalf of 176 shareholders . . .
2016 highlights from our corporate engagements: We filed 50 resolutions with 43 companies accounting for approximately 10% of all . . .