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Working Together for Peace, Economic
Justice and Stewardship of the Earth
ICCR is a thirty-five-year-old international coalition of
275 faith-based institutional investors including denominations,
religious communities, pension funds, healthcare corporations,
foundations, asset management companies, colleges, and dioceses.
As responsible stewards, they merge social values with investment
decisions, believing they must achieve more than an acceptable
financial return. ICCR members utilize religious investments
and other resources to change unjust or harmful corporate
policies, working for peace, economic justice and stewardship
of the Earth.
ICCR members are serious, long-term investors for whom financial
performance of their socially-screened portfolios is crucial
to their investment strategy. They use the power of persuasion
backed by economic pressure from consumers and investors to
hold corporations accountable. They sponsor shareholder resolutions;
meet with management; screen their investments; conduct public
hearings; publish special reports; and sponsor letter writing
campaigns.
Our Core Values Are:
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Faith-Based:
Faith guides and shapes
our priorities for action.
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Justice:
We challenge ourselves
and corporations to accountability for right relationships
with all of creation.
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Integrity:
We are striving to be credible
practitioners of the values we set forth.
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Inclusive:
We welcome diversity as
we covenant to work together.
Priorities of ICCR members include:
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eliminating sweatshops
and corporate involvement in human rights abuses;
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reversing global warming;
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halting the proliferation of genetically
modified foods until safety is proven;
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making capital available to all on
an equal opportunity basis.
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working to make retailers of violent
video games more acountable;
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making pharmaceuticals and healthcare
safe, available and affordable to all;
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seeking more reasonable executive
pay
•
seeking more accountable corporate
governance structures
It is the policy of ICCR to provide equal employment opportunities
to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital
status or disability. This policy is intended to reflect the
values and ideals of ICCR's members and to help ICCR itself
model the equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative
action policies and practices that its members urge corporations
to adopt.
ICCR is committed to fulfilling the spirit as well as the
letter of its EEO and affirmative action obligations as they
are embodied in federal, state and local law. Consequently
ICCR will attempt to identify and remove any artificial or
invisible barriers to fair employment and advancement that
may exist in the organization.
ICCR will make good faith efforts to consider diversity as
a critical value when searching for and selecting candidates
for staff positions. The ICCR Personnel Committee shall periodically
review the ICCR staff composition for its reflection of inclusiveness
and if needed, make recommendations to the Executive Director
for improvements.
