An essential component of our corporate social responsibility commitment is shareholder advocacy. We actively engage with corporations on a variety of issues that we believe enable them to be more accountable for their policies and actions. To read what active actions we are currently pursuing, click here!
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Sr. Geralda Meskill’s acquaintance with the Sisters of St. Francis began when her older sister, Sr. John Helene, entered the congregation. Sr. Geralda and her siblings enjoyed accompanying their parents to visit the convent in Mallow in County Cork. “The convent was familiar territory to me,” explained Sr. Geralda. She eventually joined the congregation as did her younger sister, Sr. Ellen Mary.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involves monitoring our investment portfolio from a moral and ethical perspective and exercising our rights and responsibilities as shareholders to hold corporations accountable for their social and environmental policies and practices.Shareholder Advocacy
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Why Do We Engage in Corporate Social Responsibility
We engage in Corporate Social Responsibility in order to fulfill the congregation’s mission to “direct our corporate resources to the promotion of justice, peace, and reconciliation” and thereby to effect change toward social and environmental justice.
Corporate Engagement 2017-2018
Every day the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia work to “connect the dots” and to find solutions to the innumerable challenges of life on our little planet, Earth. Care of creation has been and will continue to be a critical component of our work in shareholder advocacy as noted in our many ongoing engagements. The congregation does not have major investments in extractive or fossil fuel companies other than what we need for shareholder advocacy.
Click here for brief action summaries giving insight into our shareholder engagement for 2017-2018.
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THE CONGREGATION HOLDS ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP IN:
- Philadelphia Area Coalition For Responsible Investment (PACRI)
- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
- Northwest Committee for Responsible Investment (NWCRI)
- Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN)
Our membership in the organizations listed above as well as our active collaboration with organizations such as Ceres, Franciscan Action Network, Christian Brothers Investment Services, Walden Asset Management, Boston Common Asset Management and many other SRI managers enable us to effect change at the corporate level.
We also maintain a collaborative relationship with several other Responsible Investor Coalitions
- Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI)
- Neumann University
- The Catholic High School of Baltimore.
Read some of the outcomes of our work in Corporate Social Responsibility.
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