Proxy Voting

By Elizabeth R. Levy  Proxy voting enables equity (or stock) investors to participate meaningfully in the decision-making process of the companies they own. Proxy voting is one tool in a broader ecosystem of shareholder advocacy that enables shareholders to influence the policies governing… Read More > about Proxy Voting: A Critical Tool for Individuals and Investors to Influence Corporate Behavior 

Equity (or stock) investors are actually the owners of the companies they invest in. This ownership gives us the right to express our opinion on the management and governance of our companies. Clean Yield’s engagement work is one way we can… Read More > about Proxy Voting: 2024-25 Year in Review 

Stubborn optimism needs to motivate you daily; you always need to bear in mind why you feel the future is worth fighting for. –Christiana Figueres In the world of shareholder engagement and advocacy, summer is the quiet season. The hustle… Read More > about 2022 Proxy Season Wrap-up: Stubborn Optimism

It’s been a year. Between a race reckoning, a global pandemic, an attack on the U.S. Capitol and the core tenets of our democracy, a lot happened. Something else happened this past year. Shareholders held corporations to account on these… Read More > about 2021 Proxy Season Wrap-up

We’re always interested in new and action-oriented ideas. One source of inspiration last year was Project Drawdown by Paul Hawken. Drawdown is a book that ranks the 100 most impactful solutions for climate change, based on their potential greenhouse gas… Read More > about 2019 Proxy Season Wrap-Up: Drawdown, Discrimination, and Drug Prices

Concerned about bees? We are too. We see the important role they play in supporting a healthy, sustainable food system. Also, we like honey. Last summer, the Clean Yield team discovered that Tractor Supply Company, a chain of box stores… Read More > about From sticky to sweet at Tractor Supply (and 2018 Proxy Season Wrap-up)

Clean Yield is pleased to announce the withdrawal of a shareholder proposal filed at Alphabet seeking increased political transparency. Since Clean Yield filed the proposal, Alphabet has meaningfully strengthened its systems for managing political activities. Most notably, the company has… Read More > about Clean Yield successfully withdraws proposal on political transparency at Alphabet

The 2017 proxy season brought new highs and lows for shareholder advocates. The volume of shareholder voices reached new decibels this year, with record votes in support of climate risk disclosure at major energy companies Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, and… Read More > about 2017 Proxy Season Wrap-up

Readers, grab a cocktail and prepare to hear incredible but true tales from Clean Yield’s 2015 proxy season, a compendium of surprises both pleasant and unpleasant, some outright success stories, ironic twists, and at least one instance of bad luck.… Read More > about Proxy Music