How NCF Leverages Investor Standing to Push Companies like Google on Racial Equity Issues
As we mentioned in our recent strategic plan update, we aim to combine all of the organization’s assets — people, relationships, knowledge, voice, and money — to support racial, economic, and environmental justice. One way we do this is by leveraging our standing as an investor to shift markets and change corporate behavior by filing shareholder resolutions …
Corporations Shouldn’t have a Monopoly on Power: Part 2
The Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Director of Corporate and Political Accountability, Laura Campos, recently sat down with leaders from three of our partners – Joe Maxwell, Executive Director of the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM), Sarah Miller, Deputy Director of the Open Markets Institute (OMI) and Stacy Mitchell, Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) – all of whom are on the frontlines of the fight …
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Corporations Shouldn’t have a Monopoly on Power: Part 1
The rise of giant platform monopolies like Facebook, Google and Amazon has drawn renewed attention to the problematic nature of concentrated corporate power. The unfettered power of these and other massive corporations is inextricably linked to the failure to decrease inequality, promote racial justice and address the climate crisis, and anti-monopoly work is a key …
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Shareholders for Stakeholders: CEOs should safeguard, not silence, engaged investors
Via Impact Alpha: The Business Roundtable’s statement from 181 CEOs committed to pay employees fairly, protect the environment and foster diversity and inclusion. They also committed to transparency and effective engagement with shareholders. The statement confirmed that the purpose of a corporation extends beyond simply generating profits for its shareholders. And yet, the Roundtable and …
“Keep It Secret” Policies Enable Cultures Of Harassment And Discrimination
“Thanks to Tarana Burke’s Me Too movement, TIME’S UP and others, it’s no longer possible to ignore the devastating impacts of discrimination, harassment and sexual assault in the workplace. In the business world, we’ve seen many alleged harassers removed from positions of power. But while Les Moonves and his ilk may be gone, it’s not …
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