Shareholder Advocacy

UUSC works to promote responsible corporate behavior

Building on more than a decade of work, UUSC continues to engage in shareholder advocacy, leveraging our role as an investor to advocate for more responsible corporate behavior on the part of targeted companies.

While the largest part of UUSC's endowment funds is invested in socially responsible companies, we strategically invest smaller amounts in other corporations. This provides UUSC leverage to press those companies to improve their human rights records.

Filing shareholder resolutions
UUSC has filed or cofiled shareholder resolutions to be voted on at targeted companies' annual meetings. By doing this, we have also initiated ongoing discussions with companies on improving corporate social performance standards.

Sending letters to corporate boards
UUSC also uses our standing as shareholder to urge the leaders of certain corporations either to change or adopt practices more supportive of human rights. These efforts include writing letters to corporate boards of directors.

Signing on to other shareholder advocacy efforts
Other organizations often ask UUSC to "sign on" to a letter, statement, or other document as a sign of our support for their work in shareholder advocacy.

Access shareholder resolutions filed by UUSC, letters sent to corporate boards by UUSC, and shareholder advocacy efforts by colleague organizations to which UUSC has signed on.

To learn more about shareholder activism, download this PowerPoint presentation on Shareholder Activism.