Adasina is your bridge between financial markets and social justice.
We believe that transformed systems are best created by people outside of traditional power structures who carry new perspectives. By building a diverse team that reflects the communities for which we seek justice, we created a new kind of investing based on the needs of those most impacted by our existing inequitable systems.
In partnership with social justice organizations within these communities, we define the criteria that guide our investments. We use this community-sourced wisdom to educate and mobilize other investors with campaigns that amplify the needs, perspectives, and voices of impacted communities throughout the financial system.
How data is collected matters.
Adasina-sponsored data hub is a free, one-stop platform that aggregates data on the racial, human rights, economic, and climate impacts of publicly traded companies. Previously known as BRIDGE, the data hub leverages data and metrics from leading social justice organizations, to empower communities that are often left out and most negatively impacted by financial decisions.
Individuals, investors, institutions, and financial professionals with social justice values use BRIDGE to see a complete and intersectional picture of whether and how their investments may contribute to harmful practices and systemic injustices
Contributors to the BRIDGE hub:
Investigate is a project of the Economic Activism Program of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Founded in 1917, AFSC is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, we nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems. AFSC has worked for decades in social movements against mass incarceration, the militarization of police and the border, for the rights of immigrants and formerly incarcerated people, for peace, and for the rights of people under military occupation around the world.
AFSC has worked for decades in social movements against mass incarceration, the militarization of police and the border, for the rights of immigrants and formerly incarcerated people, for peace, and for the rights of people under a military occupation around the world. AFSC has a long history of supporting non-violent campaigns through research, training, and strategy consultation.
During the civil rights movement, AFSC provided logistical support to Martin Luther King and helped popularize his stance on nonviolence by publishing his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. Later, AFSC worked closely with César Chávez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, to organize farm workers and improve working conditions and wages. In 1969, a group of AFSC staff formed NARMIC: National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex, to research companies profiting from the Vietnam War and publish materials for the use of the anti-war movement.
Even before AFSC, Quakers were economic activism trailblazers, initiating the anti-slavery Free Produce Movement and instituting the first socially responsible investment screens by Friends Fiduciary Corporation in 1898. AFSC’s Economic Activism Program is located in the AFSC office in Oakland, CA. It promotes economic activism and corporate social responsibility through corporate research, strategic support, education and training, the sharing of skills, and the convening of stakeholders. It reaches out to responsible investors, community activists, and interfaith partners with information and tools to support the building of wide networks that can influence, limit, and monitor corporate power. In addition, the program engages with corporations, business stakeholders, shareholders, and investor networks on these issues, and supports shareholder activism and initiatives that promote standards and guidance for corporate behavior.
ETC Group: ETC Group is a global organization with direct farmer engagement worldwide. For nearly 40 years, they have documented the damaging effects of soil erosion, corporate consolidation, and technology infiltration in agriculture. Their research spans India and the Philippines to Canada, and has enabled us to build an international coalition of climate justice advocates.
ETC Group is also a principal resource and reference on corporate concentration and related issues for civil society and grassroots movements generally. They regularly publish Top 10 lists ranking the most powerful corporations in a range of industrial agricultural sectors.
Who Profits Research Center is an independent research center dedicated to exposing the commercial involvement of Israeli and international corporations in the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land and population.
We consider knowledge a powerful tool for exposing the underlying causes and mechanisms of injustice. By producing fact-based, free, and accessible research and analysis on the economic aspects of Israel’s entrenched rule over the Palestinian people and the Syrian communities of the Golan, we support the work of the global civil society for justice, freedom, and equality in Palestine and beyond.
Who Profits has developed a rigorous methodology for our corporate research. Our research primarily relies on public records and information sources that are open to the public, including company publications, news articles, official government documents, and court verdicts. We also conduct investigative field tours to collect evidence and submit Freedom of Information requests to official government bodies.
Inclusive Development International (IDI) works to support communities and individuals who are negatively impacted by large-scale development projects, such as infrastructure development, land acquisition, and natural resource exploitation. Founded in 2012, IDI focuses on promoting human rights and equitable development by providing affected communities with the tools, knowledge, and resources necessary to articulate their interests and defend their rights.
Additionally, IDI actively participates in research and policy work to influence international development norms and promote alternative models of inclusive development. By collaborating with grassroots organizations, civil society groups, and international partners, Inclusive Development International strives to ensure that development projects are conducted in a manner that respects human rights and fosters sustainable economic and social benefits for all stakeholders involved.
First Peoples Worldwide works from a foundation of Indigenous values to achieve a sustainable future for all. First Peoples Worldwide (FPW) is a leader in deploying strategies to move the market toward respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples. FPW translates on-the-ground impacts of investment to corporate decision-makers and increases corporate accountability to Indigenous Peoples at the intersection of business, law, and finance.
Their strategies to build the business case for Indigenous Peoples include corporate engagement, international advocacy, capacity building, network facilitation, and research.
One Fair Wage is a national organization of nearly 300,000 restaurant and service workers, nearly 1,000 restaurant owners, and dozens of organizations nationwide all working together to end all subminimum wages in the United States and raise wages and working conditions in the service sector in particular. One Fair Wage policy would require all employers to pay the full minimum wage with fair, non-discriminatory tips on top, thus lifting millions of tipped and subminimum wage workers nationally out of poverty.
The One Fair Wage coalition includes all workers for whom tips are considered wage replacement – including restaurant workers, nail salon technicians, car wash workers, tech platform delivery workers and drivers, hairdressers, massage therapists, and many more – as well as other subminimum wage workers, including disabled, incarcerated and youth workers. One Fair Wage conducts policy advocacy, voter engagement, worker and employer organizing, and culture shift activities to ultimately lift more than 20 million tipped and subminimum wage workers nationally out of poverty.
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