Socially Responsible Investing
"To advocate for and effect changes in unjust corporate decisions and values which hinder the reconciliation of the world to God"
-Human Rights Resolution Earns Key Endorsements as Vote Nears at Chevron’s Annual Shareholders Meeting
- Prayer/Proxy request for Jesuit shareholder Advocacy (PDF, APRIL, 2009)
- Jesuit Human Rights resolution with Chevron gains support among religious investors for a fifth year
- Chevron Human Rights Resolution (PDF, 2009)
- List of filers of the Chevron Human Rights Resolution (PDF, 2009)
Click here for the 2008 NJCIR Annual Report.
The primary purpose of the National Jesuit Committee on
Investment Responsibility (NJCIR) is to advocate for and effect change
in corporate behavior by coordinating shareholder advocacy initiatives
at both the province and national levels. NJCIR province
representatives collaborate to identify economic justice priorities and
to work together to promote corporate social responsibility consistent
with just sustainability in the community, the environment, and the
economy.
The NJCIR works to expand awareness of
socially responsible investment in Jesuit-related institutions; to
organize and incorporate the resources of as many provinces as possible
and to involve Jesuits in broad collaborative efforts with other
members of the faith community committed to socially responsible
investment.
Socially responsible investment (SRI) is,
for Jesuits, the work of structural justice. It involves using the
investment portfolios of the ten U.S. Jesuit provinces as well as the
province of Upper Canada to influence corporate policy decisions that
determine corporate operation in this country, and throughout the
world. Jesuits also have the opportunity to make investments in places
where traditional investment moneys do not flow, such as in community
development loan funds which help develop the human capital, economic
infrastructure and affordable housing stock in underserved,
undercapitalized areas.
National Jesuit Committee on Investment Responsibility (NJCIR)
Mr. Mark Potter (California Province)
Mr. David Zwaska (Chicago Province)
Ms. Carrie Nantais (Detroit Province)
Rev. Michael Linden, S.J. (New England Province)
Mr. Sean Agniel (Missouri Province)
Ms. Mary Baudouin (New Orleáns Province)
Rev. Mark Hallinan, S.J. (New York and Maryland Provinces)
Mr. Matthew Johnson (Oregon Province)
Mr. John Sealey (Wisconsin Province)
Rev. Winston Rye, S.J. (Jesuits in English Canada)
Ms. Anna Bradley (Jesuit Conference Consultant for Socially Responsible Investing)
Mr. John Kleiderer (Jesuit Conference Liason)