Links to Socially Responsible Mutual Funds
and Investment Services

Funds & Investment Managers Minimum Description
Investment

Aquinas Funds	$500	Screens on abortion, contraceptives, weapons of mass destruction, human rights, economic priorities, environmentally and fair employment practices
Calvert Group	$1000-$5000	Seeks companies making safe products and engaging in pollution prevention, resource conservation, international and local human rights standards, and strong labor relations.
Catholic Values Investment Trust	$1000	Reviews companies in portfolio to assure that their services and business activities are consistent with Catholic values.
Citizens Funds	$2500 or $1000 IRA	Screens for environment, alcohol and tobacco, gambling, sweat shops, weapons contractors, nuclear power and animal testing.
Clean Yield Group	$250,000	Excludes gambling, tobacco, intoxicating beverages, patterns of environmental violations, military weapons, nuclear power, animal testing, and human rights abuse. Seeks gender and racial diversity at all corporate levels.
Domini Social Investments	$1000 or $250 IRA	Screens for alcohol, tobacco, nuclear power, suppliers of gambling operations, and major military contracts. Conducts conscientious shareholder activism.
The Dreyfus Corporation	$2500	One of the country's oldest and largest socially responsible investment programs.
Dubuque Bank & Trust	Not Known	Assets monitored for numerous social parameters, including negative and positive screens.
Gabelli Asset Management	$1 million	Screens according to the individual restrictions of each client.
Green Century Capital Management, Inc.	$2000 or $500 IRA	A family of environmentally responsible mutual funds. One fund invests in companies that have clean environmental records, another exlcudes companies involved in tobacco and nuclear energy, still another excludes copanies with revenue from tobacco, alcohol, gambling, nuclear energy and military weapons sales. Committed to shareholder activism.
Laird Norton Charitable Trust	$2 million	Uses social criteria designed to fit individual values of each investor.
McHugh Associates, Inc.	Not Known	Has conformed investment portfolio to reflect the socially sensitive objectives of their religious institutional clientele.
Mellon Equity Associates, LLP	$10 million	Have used screens in client portfolios for alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography, military, nuclear power, weapons, abortion, contraceptives, environment, diversity, equal opportunity, human rights, media and violence.
Meyers Pride Value Fund	$1000 or $250 IRA	Invests exclusively in companies having progressive Open Workplace policies against discrimination in hiring and promotion based on sexual orientation.
Miller/Howard Investments, Inc.	Varies for different programs	Screens include human rights, militarism, labor issues, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, animal testing, nuclear power and environment. Offers opportunity to participate in shareholder advocacy.
MMA Praxis Mutual Funds	$500 or $50 AIP	Seeks companies that support positive values such as respect for human dignity, responsible management, and environmental stewardship. Avoids gambling, alcohol, tobacco, military contracting and nuclear power. Engages in shareholder activism.
Neuberger Berman	$1000	Tailers portfolios to meet clients' social and financial criteria. Tracks social and environmental records of companies. Offers proxy voting and shareholder resolution services.
New Alternatives Fund, Inc.	$2500	Promotes alternative energy sources and focuses on companies that develop and promote alternative energy. Excludes nuclear energy, petroleum and atomic warfare.
Oppenheimer Capital	$20 million	Global investment management firm that uses a disciplined, value oriented style of investing.
Parnassus Investments	$2000	Looks for companies that respect the environment, treat employees well, observe equal employment opportunity and have good community relations and ethical business dealings. Avoids gambling, alcohol, tobacco, weapons contractors, and nuclear power.
Pax World Fund Family	$250	Invests in goods and services that improve quality of life, fair employment, pollution control, international development and environmental responsibility. Avoids defense and weapons contractors, liquor, gambling, tobacco, and nuclear industries.
Piper Jaffray, Inc.	Not Known	Invests in companies that align with clients' ideals. Positive screens include pollution prevention, environmental responsibility, safe products, equal opportunity, diversity. Avoids nuclear power, weapons production, tobacco, alcohol, gambling.
Progressive Asset Management	No Minimum	Applies social screens as determined by clients, including environment, employee relations, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, nuclear power, defense contracting, animal testing, repressive regimes.
Progressive Investment Management	$300,000 or $5000 for Porfolio 21 or $1000 IRA	Invests in companies that show improvement in product quality, environment, employee relations, human rights, stakeholder relations, and corporate citizenship. Participates in shareholder activism.
Seix Investment Advisors	$20 million	Manages domestic fixed income portfolios with socially responsible restrictions as determined by clients. Funds are free of tobacco related products.
Seneca Capital Management	$5 million (negotiable)	Clients' portfolios screened on case-by-case basis, including alcohol, tobacco, abortion, environment, nuclear proliferation, social justice issues.
Smith Barney Asset Management	$50,000 equity or $100,000 balanced	Offers a socially screened mutual fund, and participates in ICCR coordinated social proxy initiatives.
Stein Roe & Farnham, Inc.	$1 million	Customizes portfolios based on clients' unique concerns on social issues.
Trillium Asset Management Corporation	$600,000	Manages accounts tailored to institutional and individual client social and financial need. Gives 5% of before-tax profits to charities, and is active in shareholder resolutions and advocacy with corporations.
Vantage Investment Advisors	Not Known	Addresses social issues including weapons, manufacturing, environment, nuclear power, alcohol, gambling, diversity, life issues, animal testing, employment discrimination and tobacco.
Walden Asset Management	Not Known	Works with clients to meet financial and social investment objectives. In-house research staff has expertise in products, workplace, community and the environment.