The Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility has a downloadable guide titled How to File a Shareholder Resolution. It offers a visual illustration of the process, a detailed explanation of filing requirements, tips on writing a successful resolution, strategies for boosting your resolution’s vote, and more.
This is an example of a demonstration by Greenpeace at a Nestlé shareholders meeting to raise the visibility of the company’s destruction of Orangutan habitat.
This podcast looks at the significance and impact of shareholder activism to push companies to assess, report and improve their environmental policies and practices. Companies need to be responsible for and reduce their carbon pollution not only in their own operations and sourcing, but in the companies whose materials they use to make their products, […]
This podcast explores the influence and impact that employees can have on the company they work for. In this case, the company is Amazon and the campaign was “Amazon Employees for Climate Change”. In the podcast, we hear from Eliza Pan who talks us through the employee-led effort to get Amazon to report on its […]
The Shareholder Action Guide by Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, is perhaps the best guide to the rules and process for filing shareholder resolutions and campaigning for their approval by shareholders. This book tells the story of shareholder advocacy and shows you how to use your power to hold corporations accountable.
Stanford Social Innovation Review’s article explains how employees can take action to change their companies’ behavior through shareholder resolutions.