Rockefeller Foundation

Organization Trends
“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Understanding ESG Activism
Corporate America’s recent leftward lurch on many divisive sociopolitical issues has not occurred in a vacuum. While it doubtlessly has many causes, chief among these is the pressure that businesses…
by Robert Stilson on July 12, 2023

Organization Trends
“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Quantitative Trends
The recent numerical increase in ESG shareholder resolutions has been well-documented. A comprehensive review of the 2022 proxy season by Georgeson counted 941 shareholder resolutions submitted to Russell 3000 companies,…
by Robert Stilson on July 12, 2023

Organization Trends
“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Qualitative Trends
The nature of ESG shareholder resolutions has shifted over the years to rapidly ramp up the pressure on American business. To quote the publisher’s introduction to the 2021 Proxy Preview,…
by Robert Stilson on July 12, 2023

Organization Trends
“Progressive” ESG Shareholder Activism: Pushing and Pushback
The quantitative and qualitative acceleration of ESG shareholder resolutions is easier to understand when one recalls that ESG activism is just ordinary sociopolitical issue activism undertaken within the corporate sector.
by Robert Stilson on July 12, 2023

Organization Trends
Birth of the Abortion Industrial Complex: The “Race Betterment” Club
“Love thy fellow man by murdering him” might be the commandment of the god of the abortion industry. Armed with billions of dollars from tax-exempt foundations and nonprofits, pro-abortion activists…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 3, 2022

Organization Trends
Birth of the Abortion Industrial Complex: Marie Stopes
Few Americans have heard of Marie Carmichael Stopes, yet she might be considered the UK’s Margaret Sanger and the face of British family planning and eugenics. There are interesting parallels…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 3, 2022

Organization Trends
Birth of the Abortion Industrial Complex: Eugenics Evolves
The 1950s was the era in which social engineering became the pursuit of philanthropists and cosmopolitans—literally “citizens of the world”—rather than 1930s Darwinian scientists. Now absent the imagery of Josef…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 3, 2022

Organization Trends
Birth of the Abortion Industrial Complex: Socialism and Mass Sterilization in India
One of the Population Council’s most infamous targets was India. Independent India was socialist but not aligned with the Soviet Union. What followed was an unprecedented campaign of state-sponsored “family…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 3, 2022

Organization Trends
Birth of the Abortion Industrial Complex: An Empire Run on Sex
Black and Harvey were both abortion activists in the late 1960s who shared an entrepreneurial vision of preventing “unwanted pregnancy.” The pair soon devised an idea of marketing condoms through…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 3, 2022

Organization Trends
Birth of the Abortion Industrial Complex: Marie Stopes International
Population Services International, DKT International, and Adam & Eve reveal how the population control movement has changed since the 1960s yet remains fundamentally the same. This network promotes local health…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 3, 2022