ABOUT US
As You Sow is the nation’s non-profit leader in shareholder advocacy. Founded in 1992, we harness shareholder power to create lasting change and align investments with values.
Our Mission
Our mission is to promote environmental and social corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, coalition building, and innovative legal strategies.
Our Vision
Our vision is a safe, just, and sustainable world in which protecting the environment and human rights is central to corporate decision making.
Highlights: Your Shareholder Power Making a Change
Corporations are responsible for most of the pressing social and environmental problems we face today — we believe corporations must be a willing part of the solutions. We make this happen.
As shareholder advocates, we directly engage corporate CEOs, senior management, and institutional investors to change corporations from the inside out. “Shareholders are a powerful force for creating positive, lasting change in corporate behavior.”
When corporations focus on the short term and ignore the wider impact of their policies and actions, they create risk for their customers, employees, shareholders, and themselves. As shareholder advocates, we press corporations to understand this broader risk. We work directly with corporate executives to collaboratively develop business policies and practices that reduce risk, benefit brand reputation, and increase the bottom line while bringing positive environmental and social change.
Ultimately, companies that view the world in years, decades, and generations reduce their risk and improve success.
Since 1992, As You Sow has been raising the shareholder voice to increase corporate responsibility on a broad range of environmental issues such as waste reduction and waste management, as well as social issues including racial justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Shareholder advocacy works.