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Causes: Social Science Research Institutes, Services
Mission: Promotion of awareness through direct action, writing, or other communication of the responsibility of corporations to function in ways that are congenial to the welfare of the citizen and to monitor the executive direction of corporations from the perspective of society and ownership. Payment of legal fees for the development of key proxy resolutions on behalf of all shareholders at certain companies (satisfies "direct action" criterion of foundation's by-laws).
Programs: The responsible endowments coalition (rec) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to foster social change and corporate accountability by building and unifying the college and university-based responsible investment movement. Rec empowers students and other university members to challenge their institutions of higher education to invest responsibly and proactively, in ways that confront corporate abuses - such as sweatshop labor and environmental destruction - and encourage accountability to their communities. Rec provides the tools, resources, and networks to help students lead successful responsible investment campaigns on their campuses.
gift to the international integrated reporting council (iirc), a global coalition of regulators, investors, companies, standard setters, the accounting profession and nongovernmental organizations. The coalition is promoting communication about value creation as the next step in the evolution of corporate reporting. The iirc is chaired by professor mervyn king and paul druckman is chief executive officer.
research policy initiatives related to limits on executive compensation to help impact the return of limits to executive compensation policy and set goals for future.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.