Adasina Social Capital
Data hub sponsor & partner · adasina.com ↗
Adasina Social Capital is an investment firm dedicated to social justice through financial activism. They integrate advocacy and investing to influence capital flows toward racial, gender, economic, and climate justice — ensuring investment decisions reflect the needs of historically marginalized communities.
Adasina sponsors a free, one-stop data hub (previously known as BRIDGE) that aggregates data on the racial, human rights, economic, and climate impacts of publicly traded companies — contributed by five leading social justice organizations.
About exclusion lists
What makes Adasina datasets different
The datasets within the Adasina-sponsored hub are exclusion lists — companies are either on the list or they are not. These lists identify companies engaged in social and environmental harm, helping investors and advocates make informed decisions about whether to divest from or engage with these companies.
Divestment — investors wanting to avoid companies involved in harmful activities use exclusion lists to screen them out of portfolios, aligning investments with values.
Engagement — some investors use the data to pressure companies to change, identifying problem areas and pushing for better policies before deciding to divest.
Hub contributors
Five organizations contribute data to the Adasina-sponsored hub:
As the hub sponsor, Adasina directly contributes three datasets focused on financial activism and corporate harm.
The For-Profit Colleges Investor Dataset
Focuses on companies that specifically target low-income students, people of color, single parents, and veterans. For-profit colleges account for 13% of the population but 33% of federal loan defaults. Companies are identified by having publicly traded status, offering a 4-year degree, and accepting student loans.
The Prison Funding Investor Dataset
Focuses on companies that hold debt or equity investments in mass incarceration — specifically equity or debt holdings of CoreCivic and GeoGroup, the two publicly traded companies that own and manage private prisons and detention centers. Updated annually from company disclosures.
Civil & Voting Rights Dataset
Tracks corporate behaviors impacting civil rights and voting access across the United States and a few international companies.
| Issue Area | Coverage | Update | Research Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prison Funding | Global, Industry Specific ~100 companies | 1x/year | Human-curated |
| Civil & Voting Rights | US (+ a few international) ~20 companies | 1x/year | Human-curated + automated scraping |
| For-Profit Colleges | US publicly traded ~20 companies | 1x/year | Human-curated |
For more information: impact@adasina.com
Tallgrass Institute works from a foundation of Indigenous values to achieve a sustainable future for all. They are an Indigenous-led organization that translates on-the-ground impacts of investment affecting Indigenous Peoples to corporate decision-makers through the intersection of business, law, and finance.
Their dataset includes publicly traded companies that infringe on Indigenous Peoples' rights by:
- Demonstrating a pattern, practice, or perpetuating a violation of the rights and protections of Indigenous Peoples
- Demonstrating a pattern, practice, or perpetuating criminal or exploitative behavior towards Indigenous Peoples
- Using explicit cultural appropriation of Indigenous culture and imagery
- Deploying capital that infringes on Indigenous land rights
- Desecrating sacred places
Tallgrass uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative sources including news and media, industry associations, and company disclosures. The dataset is reviewed and updated annually.
| Issue Area | Coverage | Update | Research Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous Peoples' Rights | Global, all industries ~30 companies | 1x/year | Human-curated |
For more information: tallgrassinstitute.org ↗
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 building an international coalition of climate justice advocates.
The Extractive Agriculture Investor Dataset
Focuses on a food system that contributes to climate change and displaces farmers and families throughout the global south. Industrial agriculture uses at least 75% of the world's agricultural resources to provide food for less than 30% of the global population. The dataset covers corporate concentration across:
- Commercial seed and agrochemical/pesticides sector
- Agricultural fertilizer sector and genetic engineering
- Commodity traders (grains, food, fiber, meat, livestock, sugar)
- Farm machinery sector
- Meat processing and meatpacking
- Animal pharmaceutical sector
- Animal genetics and reproductive technologies
- Post-harvest processing of raw agricultural commodities
- Retail of perishable and non-perishable foods
| Issue Area | Coverage | Update | Research Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extractive Agriculture | Global, all industries ~70 companies | 1x/year | Human-curated |
Inclusive Development International (IDI) works to support communities 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.
IDI manages a dataset of publicly traded companies implicated in human rights abuses, environmental destruction, and other harms to local communities. Companies implicated in issues over 3 years ago are removed from the list.
| Issue Area | Coverage | Update | Research Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Rights | Global (Africa, Latin America & MENA) | 1x/year | Human-curated + automated scraping |
| Supply Chain | Global (Africa, Latin America & MENA) | 1x/year | Human-curated + automated scraping |
| Land & Natural Resource Rights | Global (Africa, Latin America & MENA) | 1x/year | Human-curated + automated scraping |
| Deforestation | Global (Africa, Latin America & MENA) | 1x/year | Human-curated + automated scraping |
| Environmental Destruction | Global (Africa, Latin America & MENA) | 1x/year | Human-curated + automated scraping |
For more information: inclusivedevelopment.net ↗
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 working to end all subminimum wages in the United States and raise wages and working conditions in the service sector.
One Fair Wage reached out to dozens of large companies to ask if they pay any of their employees the subminimum wage for tipped workers. Companies that indicated they do pay a subminimum wage to tipped workers in any location or subsidiary were listed as "Pays a Subminimum Wage to Tipped Employees." The dataset is updated annually by Adasina Social Capital through a follow-up inquiry.
| Issue Area | Coverage | Update | Research Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subminimum Wages to Tipped Employees | US, Sub-Industry Specific — restaurants with a few exceptions ~40 companies | 1x/year | Human-curated |
Access & availability
Adasina-sponsored hub datasets are available on the AYK platform as:
- Standalone exclusion lists by issue area, or
- An integrated component within broader ESG and governance analysis
Data provenance & disclaimer
Data on this page is sourced from Adasina Social Capital, an independent third-party research provider.
As You Know aggregates and distributes this data as provided, and does not independently verify, audit, or guarantee its accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. Users should conduct their own due diligence before making investment or business decisions based on this information.
For questions about methodology, contact Adasina Social Capital directly.
