Are you looking for new and effective ways to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion community efforts within your organization? Look no further than your shareholders, owners, or donors. Yes, you read that correctly! Your company’s owners or shareholders, if you are a public corporation, and donors, if you are a non-profit, can be some of your most vocal and influential allies in your DEI efforts.
Over the past few years, there has been a significant rise in the number of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) advocacy or activist investors. These groups can be a massive boon to our efforts, falling under the social and governance umbrella. For example, one of these groups asked insurance giant AIG to report on the effectiveness of the company’s DEI efforts, and the executive leadership immediately agreed to comply. On the other hand, there are also counter-ESG forces in the shareholder ranks that resist DEI efforts, as demonstrated by a group of Starbucks shareholders who recently tried to stop all the company’s DEI efforts.
If you’re wondering how these investor forces work, how to find out what’s going on in your organization, and how to align and add value to these allies to best support your company, members, and community, then you won’t want to miss our upcoming podcast episode. Our guest, Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and author of the Shareholder Action Guide, will demystify this brave new world of investor DEI-impacting power struggles.
Join us for ERG PowerTalk, where we will explore how to seize opportunities and avoid pitfalls in this rapidly evolving landscape of shareholder advocacy for DEI. Learn how to tap into this increasingly vocal and influential group of potential allies in your community’s DEI efforts. Don’t miss this chance to learn from the expert and add new tools to your DEI toolkit. Tune in to our podcast episode now!
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