In honor of socially responsible investment pioneer Joan Bavaria, Ceres and Trillium Asset Management Corporation are inviting nominations for the third-annual Joan Bavaria Awards for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets.
Nominations for the 2010 Bavaria Awards are being accepted via the Ceres website www.ceres.org/bavaria_awards. The deadline for submitting nominations is March 5, 2010.
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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 [...]

[We're pleased to excerpt this press release from Ceres, the Investor Network on Climate Risk and the Environmental Defense Fund. Trillium Asset Management Corporation participated heavily in the lobbying efforts that lead to this breakthrough.]
Contact:

Peyton Fleming, Ceres, 617-733-6660 or fleming@ceres.org
Steve Tripoli, Ceres, 617-247-0700 x155 or tripoli@ceres.org
Sharyn Stein, EDF, 202-572-3396 or sstein@edf.org
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Last week Trillium Asset Management Corporation and OpenMIC filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  in support of its efforts to protect the free and open nature of the Internet. The FCC initiative by the Obama Administration, also referred to by many as Net Neutrality, is vitally important to our rights to freedom of [...]

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 [...]

December 2009 – The Securities and Exchange Commission moved to finalize a new rule that requires companies to disclose annual meeting voting results within four business days after the annual meeting. Trillium argued vigorously in support of this rule change because we believe the value of vote totals is greatest immediately after the annual meeting. [...]

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 [...]

The staff of Trillium’s Boston office spent an afternoon working together on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, planting several hundred flowering bulbs in memory of Founding President and CEO Joan Bavaria.
Joan passed away in November, 2008. She was an avid gardener and environmentalist, and employees wanted to acknowledge the anniversary of [...]

October 27, 2009 -  ­ This morning the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a reversal in policy that will allow shareholders to resume filing resolutions that ask companies to discuss the risks associated with climate change, toxic chemicals, rising health care costs and other significant social and environmental policies issues. Under the Bush Administration, [...]

Trillium Asset Management Corporation Announces Hiring of Matthew Patsky as its New CEO
October 21, 2009
Boston, MA – The Board of Directors of Trillium Asset Management Corporation (“Trillium”) is pleased to announce that Matthew Patsky, CFA has joined the firm as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Patsky has been actively involved in socially responsible investing [...]