Today, we hosted our latest webinar for member education on the “Shareholder Resolution Process.” ICCR’s Guide to Filing Shareholder Resolutions is a great tool. We are grateful that Tim Smith of Walden Asset Management and Pat Miguel Tomaino of Zevin Asset Management were able to join us. Their input was a great contribution. Without further ado, here is the video:
Hearing from both members and ICCR colleagues (Donna Meyer of Mercy Investment Servces and Meg Jones-Monteiro of the ICCR staff), this webinar provides tools for an understanding of our engagements in nutrition, insurance, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, and opioids as well as global health issues. This webinar also proposes time efficient ways of deepening our engagement with these issues.
The article, mentioned by Donna, about the relative expenses of research and development and marketing for pharmaceutical companies can be found here or in a PDF version here.
If you have any questions from the content of the webinar, please, feel free to direct them to us at SeventhGenerationInt@gmail.com.
As always, we welcome your feedback via a confidential evaluation found here.
We are pleased to offer our second quarterly webinar on shareholder engagement in health. The webinar will take place on Friday, April 20th, at 10 a.m. (Central). It will last 90 minutes. We will hear from both members and ICCR colleagues who lead components of our health campaigns. This webinar will provide tools for an understanding of our engagements in nutrition, insurance, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, and opioids as well as global health issues. This webinar will also propose time efficient ways of deepening our engagement with these issues.
SGI members should have received an email with the data to log on to the webinar. If for some reason you have not received it, please contact our associate director, Chris Cox, at SeventhGenerationInt@gmail.com.
This morning, we hosted a webinar for member orientation. Let’s begin by offering thanks to Sr. Nora Nash, OSF and Tom McCaney of PA-CRI for joining us. Also, we are thankful to Mark Peters, Director of Justice, Peace and Reconciliation, Priests of the Sacred Heart and SGI board member, who shared of his experience as a member. Thanks, too, to all of our members who joined us as well as those who will watch the webinar here.
We hope that webinar:
Inspires confidence that our work in shareholder advocacy can make a difference on important issues
Provides examples of how shareholder advocacy is done
Offers a few first steps, best practices for those beginning in this ministry
Introduces a community of people committed to change who work alongside us
If you are only seeing this for the first time now, in the webinar we:
Reviewed our values and commitments onimmigration
Assessed the state of play on policy
Highlighted what some allies are doing
Encouraged deeper investor engagement with our companies around concerns onimmigration (e.g., the shareholder letter to JPMorgan Chase concerning investment in private prisons and immigration detention centers)
As requested by members, we will host our next webinar on shareholder engagement in immigration on Friday, February 16th at 10 a.m. (Central time). The webinar will last 90 minutes.
In the webinar, we will:
Review our values and commitments onimmigration
Assess the state of play on policy
Highlight what some allies are doing
Encourage deeper investor engagement with our companies around concerns onimmigration (e.g., the shareholder letter to JPMorgan Chase concerning investment in private prisons and immigration detention centers)
Feel free to share this invitation with people within your network. For how to join the webinar, please, contact Christopher Cox, our associate director at seventhgenerationint@gmail.com.