Social Justice
A JUST WORLD FOR ALL
Our Social Justice Program focuses on helping companies foster a culture based on justice and equity that promotes diversity across gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other federally protected classes. Our team compels companies to develop best practices on critical social issues to create a diverse culture, new ideas, and attracts and retains the best and the brightest employees.
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Our scorecard of key performance indicators informs our corporate engagements to hold corporations accountable for implementing policies and practices aligned with their corporate statements — or lack thereof — on racial justice. Public statements of support are easy; ensuring that People of Color are hired, paid, promoted, and retained equitably is less so.
The Environmental Justice Initiative at As You Sow® aims to identify the elements that perpetuate environmental racism and develop collaborative strategies to disrupt patterns that lock inequity in place. The Environmental Justice Initiative engages directly with environmental justice advocates and amplifies their narratives during our corporate engagements.
Gender and ethnic diversity across a company’s board, management, and staff at all levels is shown to improve ideas, attract and retain employees, reduce risk of fraud, and enable a company to achieve a broader consensus, thus improving its success. We engage companies to increase gender and ethnic diversity throughout their organization. Our scorecard of key performance indicators informs our corporate engagements.
We engage companies on the egregious income disparity related to CEO pay that has polarized the US economy and created wage injustice. Institutional shareholders typically approve compensation packages without considering the broader economic implications. We work to educate shareholders on more equitable approaches to compensation.
Slavery in Supply Chains
The elimination of slavery from supply chains through transparent disclosure and bringing together multi-stakeholder industry groups saves companies from material risk. Laggard companies that do have policies on forced labor in their supply chain are subject to litigation and negative brand association when these practices are discovered. We engage these companies to elevate the issue to their shareholders and customers to provide management with the tools and information to address it.
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