But even easier, you can use the databases compiled by the corporate accountability and shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow—its Invest Your Values website offers several invaluable search tools for weighing the ethical and financial performance of up to 3,000 funds, updated monthly. Using the site, you can look up a simple letter grade for each fund as related to seven common issues of concern: climate change, deforestation, militarism, mass incarceration, gender equality, tobacco, and guns. Alternately, you can dig into a more detailed breakdown of each fund’s holdings. “We try to simplify it down to a grade, but there's also a huge amount of detail,” says As You Sow chief executive officer Andrew Behar.
