As You Sow is the nation’s non-profit leader in shareholder advocacy. Founded in 1992, As You Sow harnesses shareholder power to create lasting change that benefits people, planet, and profit.

One way to use: discover best- and worst-impact companies on issues like waste, clean energy, and CEO pay ratios.

Greenpeace uses non-violent creative action to pave the way towards a greener, more peaceful world, and to confront the systems that threaten our environment.

One way to use: get involved in a campaign to protect the oceans.

Benchmarking for a better world. Building a movement to measure and incentivise business impact towards a sustainable future that works for everyone.

One way to use: find companies rated the best (and worst) on protecting human rights throughout their supply chains.

Our goal is a more sustainable, just and equal planet. We want forests and biodiversity to thrive, fossil fuels to stay in the ground and corporations to prioritise the interests of people and the planet.

One way to use: subscribe to newsletter to learn about corporations involved in greenwashing, deforestation, and other land degradation.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) drives ambitious climate action in the private sector by enabling companies to set science-based emissions reduction targets.

One way to use: encourage your employer to set a science-based target to reduce emissions.

Green America harnesses ecomomic power-the strength of consumers, investors, business, and the marketplace - to create a socially just and sustainable society.

One way to use: join campaigns that support a more just, green economy.

JUST Capital measures and ranks companies on the issues Americans care about most so you can then act on that knowledge.

One way to use: discover US companies doing the most to build a more just, equitable future.

All Americans want a healthier, safer, more secure future. PIRG works to find common ground around common sense solutions that will help make that future a reality.

One way to use: join a campaign to stop wasteful single-use plastic.

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making.

One way to use: learn about the role of corporate lobbying in the EU.

Accountable.US is a nonpartisan organization that shines a light on corporations and special interests that too often wield unchecked power and influence in Washington and beyond.

One way to use: view scorecards on US companies for their support of democracy.

CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts.

One way to use: look up ratings of company impact on climate change, water, and deforestation.

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power and work to ensure that government works for the people – not for big corporations.

One way to use: join campaigns that support democracy, worker rights, and affordable healthcare.

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) works to improve the lives of working people. It is the democratic, voluntary federation of 55 national and international labor unions that represent 12.5 million working men and women.

One way to use: avoid companies that have a very high CEO-to-worker pay ratio (data published by AFL-CIO).

Global Canopy is a data-driven non-profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We do this by providing innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide.

One way to use: use datasets on country and corporate impact on deforestation.

ShareAction is building the movement for responsible investment, working to transform the investment system and unlock its potential to be a force for good.

One way to use: discover best- and worst-impact asset managers on issues like climate change, biodiversity, and human rights.

Corporate Knights Inc. includes the sustainable business magazine Corporate Knights and a research division that produces rankings and financial product ratings based on corporate sustainability performance.

One way to use: discover top-rated companies for sustainability.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) promotes a world free of violence, inequality, and oppression.

One way to use: take action to help refugees and immigrant detainees.

InfluenceMap launched its corporate climate lobbying platform on the eve of the Paris Agreement in late 2015 in response to growing demand from investors and other stakeholders.

One way to use: discover which companies are lobbying for and against climate action.

SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

One way to use: discover companies involved in the global arms industry.

We take action against the companies and industries driving deforestation and climate change.

One way to use: join a campaign to protect rainforests.

Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization working with the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy.

One way to use: discover best- and worst-performers on issues like air emissions by electric power producers.

Working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and end the exploitation of those it touches.

One way to use: join a campaign to end private prisons.

The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

One way to use: find out how countries are doing on limiting global warming.

Our vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.

One way to use: take action for racial justice.

The United Nations Global Compact is a voluntary initiative based on CEO commitments to implement universal sustainability principles and to take steps to support UN goals.

The #breakfreefromplastic Movement is a global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution.

One way to use: discover which consumer companies are the largest producers of single-use plastic.

Equileap aims to make a difference, as well as a return, by accelerating gender equality in the workplace.

One way to use: find brands and companies that best support gender equality.

American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) is a movement builder in partnership with the business and investor community. ASBN develops and advocates solutions for policymakers, business leaders, and investors that support an equitable, regenerative, and just economy that benefits all⁠—people and planet. As a multi-issue, membership organization advocating on behalf of every business sector, size, and geography, ASBN and its association members collectively represent over 250,000 businesses across our networks.

One way to use: find examples of how business can play a positive role in building a more sustainable future.

We Mean Business is a global nonprofit coalition working with the world’s most influential businesses to take action on climate change.

One way to use: see examples of large corporations working to accelerate the zero-carbon transition.

Germanwatch is an independent development, environmental, and human rights organisation that lobbies for sustainable global development. For us, sustainable development means socially equitable, ecologically sound, and economically stable.

One way to use: learn how EU corporations can support a more equitable and sustainable world.

Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality.

One way to use: discover companies doing the most (and least) to support LGBTQ equality at the workplace, using HRC's Corporate Equality Index.

Forestsandfinance.org is an initiative by a coalition of campaign and research organizations that seeks to prevent financial institutions from supporting the kind of environmental and social abuses that are all too common in the operations of many forest-risk sector clients.

One way to use: find which financial institutions are most involved in deforestation.

The Energy and Policy Institute is a watchdog organization working to expose attacks on renewable energy and counter misinformation by fossil fuel and utility interests.

One way to use: find out which utilities and energy companies support renewable energy, and which are actively opposing it.

CorpWatch works to promote environmental, social and human rights at the local, national and global levels by holding multinational corporations accountable for their actions.

One way to use: stay informed about company actions that violate environmental, social and human rights.

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, GFW allows anyone to access near real-time information about where and how forests are changing around the world.

One way to use: find data for monitoring forest health.

DiversityInc's mission is to bring education and clarity to the business benefits of diversity.

One way to use: find top-rated companies for diversity and inclusion, based on human capital practices and outcomes.

For 60 years, WWF has worked to help people and nature thrive. As the world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in nearly 100 countries. At every level, we collaborate with people around the world to develop and deliver innovative solutions that protect communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live.

One way to use: join campaigns to protect the diversity of life on earth.

The Enough Project supports peace and an end to mass atrocities in Africa’s deadliest conflict zones.

One way to use: get research related to company involvement in conflict mining.

Corporate Accountability Lab unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.

One way to use: learn about legal strategies to hold companies accountable.

Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet.

One way to use: join campaigns to hold Big Tobacco and other corporations accountable.

Corporate Watch is a research group that helps people stand up against corporations and capitalism. We investigate exploitative bosses, landlords and property developers, companies profiting from prisons, deportation flights, animal exploitation and more, as well as the mega-corporations devastating our planet – and the wider systems of power and profit they work within.

One way to use: read research and analysis aimed at exposing unethical corporate behavior.

The Access to Medicine Foundation stimulates and guides pharmaceutical companies to do more for the people living in low- and middle-income countries without access to medicine.

One way to use: find out which pharmaceutical companies are doing the most to make medicines, vaccines and diagnostics more accessible for people in low-income countries.

5050 Women on Boards is an organization working to increase the percentage of women on company board of director seats in the United States.

One way to use: avoid companies that score low on the Gender Diversity Index (GDI), a ranking based on percentage of women on the board.

BSR is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world.

One way to use: see examples of companies working together on issues like climate change and workers' rights.

To protect and advocate for consumers' right to safe, healthful food and other consumer products, a just food and farming system and an environment rich in biodiversity and free of pollutants.

One way to use: join campaigns to support a more just and sustainable food system.

Climate Action Campaign’s mission is to stop the climate crisis through effective policy action.

One way to use: take political action to address climate action.

The Labour Rights Index measures major aspects of employment regulation that affect a worker during the employment life cycle in 115 countries.

One way to use: find how well your country protects labor rights.

WBCSD is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.

One way to use: find examples of businesses working toward the UN Sustainable Development goals.