Jonas Kron
The world will not soon forget the power and significance of Google’s decision this past January to stop censoring search results in China. That bold action will likely be seen as a watershed moment in the history of corporate social responsibility. Google deserves accolades for its environmental and social behavior in many respects. The [...]

Shelley Alpern
BP? We’re out of it. With the benefit of perfect hindsight, I wish we’d sold before the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe; this wasn’t the first lethal BP disaster in recent years. We could also see the company’s commitment to shareholder engagement on environmental, social and governance matters (ESG) slipping as well, but were hoping that [...]

Milton Moskowitz
According to Advertising Age, the authoritative source for such statistics, the 10 largest advertisers in the U.S. in 2008 were Procter & Gamble ($4.8 billion), Verizon ($3.7 billion), AT&T ($3 billion), General Motors ($2.9 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($2.5 billion), Unilever ($2.4 billion), Walt Disney ($2.2 billion), Time Warner ($2.2 billion), General Electric ($2 billion), [...]

Will Lana
If you find yourself traveling in the Four Corners region of Northwestern New Mexico you’ll see many fine sights – broad mesas with pinon pines, red rocked desert towers, Anasazi ruins and historic frontier towns. Look closely and you may catch a glimpse of local wildlife such as Gambel’s quail, mule deer or elk.  [...]

Jonas Kron
What a difference a change in Administration makes. Champagne corks popped in the offices of socially concerned shareholders all throughout the land in October, when, with a few strokes of the pen, the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) restored a necessary dose of common sense to the shareholder resolution process that lacking in the [...]

Susan Baker
Trillium Asset Management Corporation (“Trillium”) has been pressing restaurant chains to reduce the use of pesticides in their supply chains, continuing our research and advocacy on sustainable food and agriculture.1
Reducing pesticides is a logical step toward protecting the health of farm workers and consumers and minimizing soil and water contamination. The introduction of GMO [...]

Note: This list includes “lead filings,” where Trillium Asset Management Corporation heads up a coalition of shareholder advocates, and “co-filings,” in which we participate in filings led by others. In the table below, our lead filings are indicated in bold.

Coal Ash
FirstEnergy**
Report on efforts to manage coal combustion waste
Withdrawn

In-person shareholder meetings
Intel*,**
Drop plans to conduct shareholder meetings [...]

February 2, 2010 – Trillium Asset Management Corporation has joined a coalition of investors in calling on major electronics, medical device and automobile component manufactures, to ensure that the companies are not aiding conflict and human rights abuses by purchasing supplies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The investors, who represent almost $200 [...]

RiskMetrics Group’s “Sustainability Risk Monitor” – widely read by the influential institutional investor community – used its cover story this month to give in depth coverage to Open MIC’s 2010 open and free Internet shareholder campaign. Open MIC, which Trillium founded, is coordinating proposals at AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Comcast and many other companies in an [...]

November 13, 2009 – As the healthcare reform debate in Congress shifts to the U.S. Senate, leading faith-based and concerned institutional investors including Trillium Asset Management Corporation, are pressuring 36 major companies – including Merck, Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, AT&T, IBM and General Electric — to state publicly if the U.S. Chamber speaks for them in its [...]