In our Season 1 finale, Adam and Matthew discuss why shareholders keep voting for CEO-to-worker pay ratios of 200-1, the EIRIS Foundation's new Social Lobby Map and a tribute to corporate governance pioneer Bob Monks.  Then, Susi Snyder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICANW) explains how institutional and private investors can screen their portfolios of these weapons of mass destruction... and work to rid the Earth of them once and for all. 

Check out EIRIS's Social Lobby Map here.

Read the tribute to Bob Monks here.

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Matthew Illian travels to Washington, D.C. to speak with Members of Congress about the importance of faith-based investing – and to attend the U.S. Sustainable Investing Forum Conference. He gives us an on-the-scene report from our nation's capital. Then the Rev. Penny Lowes, UCF's outgoing Board Chair, explains how her faith informs her passion for responsible investing... and her hopes for the future.

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So-called "Green Funds" in Europe are revealed to hold billions in oil and gas companies, and more anti-DEI shareholder resolutions fail spectacularly at major U.S. corporations. Then, Sister Susan Francois of the Congregations of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace explains why her Catholic faith compels her and others in her order to advocate for the rights of native peoples and other disenfranchised groups in the corporate space. 

Learn more here about an agreement that United Church Funds reached with J.P. Morgan to uphold indigenous rights.

Anti-DEI shareholder resolutions meet with shocking results in the first quarter of 2025, and Matthew sounds off on ESG. Then, Marita Canedo of the Vermont-based group Migrant Justice joins Adam and Matthew to discuss the terrible conditions that migrant dairy workers face in that state – and how her group is working to change them.

Read a detailed and thoughtful defense of shareholder proposals, published by the Shareholder Rights Group, in conjunction with the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and US SIF, here. Visit www.ucfunds.org

In spite of federal pushback against responsible investing, a surprising number of ICCR member resolutions lead to agreement. But not all the news is rosy, as the Trump administration shutters Environmental Justice offices across the country. Rewired corporate responsibility executive Connie Lindsey joins Adam and Matthew to explain why there's cause for hope, even in these troubling times.  View the 2025 ICCR Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide here: https://www.iccr.org/now-out-the-2025-iccr-proxy-resolutions-and-voting-guide/

And check out Connie Lindey's podcast, Joy in the Breakthrough, here: https://www.joyitbpod.com/

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State Attorneys General jump into the fight over DEI, and big changes at the SEC shift power from the federal government to the Board Rooms. Then William Burckart of the Investment Integration Project (TIIP) joins Adam and Matthew to shed light on the cutting-edge field of systems-level investing. Visit www.ucfunds.org.

A DEI backslide rocks corporate America, and President Trump pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Paul Thompson from the European Federation for Accountants and Auditors join Adam and Matthew to discuss the impacts of these seismic shifts on responsible investing. Visit www.ucfunds.org.

Workers in some states win a higher minimum wage and paid sick leave, and Adam and Matthew break down what lies ahead for workers’ rights. Then David Schilling from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility shares stories from his decades-long work in the fight against forced labor… and the role responsible investors play in this vitally important issue. Visit www.ucfunds.org.

Open AI announces it's becoming a public benefit corporation, and Adam and Matthew discuss what that could mean for responsible investors. Then legendary gadfly Jim McRitchie of corpgov.net joins us to shed some light on corporate lobbying... and what happens to corporate governance after the elections. Visit www.ucfunds.org.  

The Supreme Court reverses decades-long regulatory rules, and Adam and Matthew discuss what that means for responsible investors. Plus, California pushes back on plastic pollution. And Nadira Narine from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) highlights the fight for workers' rights – from living wages to the right to unionize. Visit www.ucfunds.org.