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  • 12/7/11 - Having Faith in Corporate Social Responsibility:  listen to our Sr. Nora Nash and Tom McCaney discuss corporate social responsibility on WHYY radio.  (Read and listen.)
     
  • 11/14/11 - Have a Group of Nuns Become the Most Powerful Investors Around?  Read more.
     
  • 11/13/11 - Nuns Who Won't Stop Nudging:  “We're not here to put corporations down,” says Sr. Nora Nash of the Sisters of St. Francis. “We're here to improve their sense of responsibility.”  Read more. 
  • 10/27/11 -  Sr. Mary Beth Antonelli, our vocations director in the east, was a participant in Focus 11 which was covered by the Baltimore Sun: Catholics look to younger students to stem priest, nun declines.  Read more.
     
  • 7/27/11 - Sr. Ronnie Grier joined a celebration of faith and joy, as 60 African-American women religious and 65 priests and deacons prayed together on July 25 at a Mass celebrated by Washington, D.C., Auxiliary Bishop Martin Holley at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church.  Read more.
     
  • 7/15/11 -  Bishops, Nuns, and Rabbis debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. Read more.
     
  • 7/11/11 - Franciscan group sees fertile future:  The network is engaged in a series of different projects. Their ongoing “Care for Creation” project provides lectionary reflections, prayer and educational resources, and an adult formation program for use in parishes. The shareholder responsibility program has highlighted the work of the Sisters of St. Francis in Philadelphia, who joined with the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility to take on Goldman Sachs, submitting at a shareholder meeting a resolution that called for an end to bonuses at the Wall Street firm. The Franciscan Action Network has worked with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on a range of pro-life and social justice concerns. Read more. 
       
  • 7/8/11 - A PBS interview with Tom McCaney, one of our employees who works with Sr. Nora Nash in the office of Corporate Social Responsibility. The interview is on the topic of McDonald’s and childhood obesity. This interview aired on a public radio station in Los Angeles, on a show called Good Food. To listen click: http://www.iccr.org/images/audio/GoodFood3.way.

  • 7/8/11 - Benedictine Academy received the prestigious Jefferson Outstanding School Award. Sister Donna Jo Repetti and Linda Michalski have done phenomenal work in Campus Ministry in a small inner city school in Elizabeth, NJ. You can learn more visiting Benedictine Academy’s website and clicking on Campus Ministry:  http://www.benedictineacad.org;   http://njtoday.net/2011/04/18/benedictine-academy-wins-jefferson-award-gold-medal/.
     
  • 5/14/11 - Condensed version of article in The Fig Tree (5/12/11) about Sr. Pat Millen and her many impressive accomplishments in ministry.  Read more.
     
  • 5/12/11 - Enjoy this latest article about Sr. Pat Millen and her many impressive accomplishments in ministry. The article was published in The Fig Tree.
     
  • 5/5/11 - Blankfein to Battle Angry Shareholders at Annual Meeting - Sister Nora Nash, a soft-spoken nun with the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, says the founding saint of her order would be "spinning in his grave" if St. Francis knew what the Goldman executives were paying themselves.  Read more.
     
  • 5/2/11 - Repent or else...Ed Hart, wowdewow economics editor, hails nuns and others who fight to increase minimum wages paid by the FTSE companies who fill their big boots but keep their consciences parked on empty.  Read more.
     
  • 5/1/11 - FTSE firms must pay living wage, says ‘shareholder nun’ – Religious investors led by Sister Nora Nash demand employees be paid at least £7.20 an hour. An article by Mark Leftly with The Independent , CO, UK. Read more. 
     
  • 4/28/11 - St. Joseph Family Center Executive Director named to Human Services Advisory Board - The City of Spokane’s Human Services Advisory Board [HSAB] has selected Franciscan Sister Pat Millen, executive director of St. Joseph Family Center in Spokane, as a board member.  Read more.
     
  • 4/15/11 - Philadelphia Nuns Take On Goldman Sachs.  Read (and see) more.
     
  • 4/14/11 - The nuns who won't put up with being seen and not heard - Sister Nora Nash of the Sisters of St Francis of Philadelphia will cut an unlikely figure at Goldman Sachs's annual meeting, as she calls on the bank to review excessive pay deals. As her community's director of corporate social responsibility, in charge of ensuring the investment portfolio for their retirement reflects their commitment to social justice, she has vowed to make her convent's opposition to corporate excess heard.  Read more.
     
  • 4/12/11 - Nuns challenge Goldman Sachs over executive pay - Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs, may believe he is "doing God's work" but Sister Nora Nash has other ideas. A nun and one of the Sisters of St Francis of Philadelphia, Nash says her founding saint would be "spinning in his grave" if he knew what the Goldman elite were paying themselves. Next month she will join an interfaith group of investors attending the bank's annual general meeting, who plan to make sure that Blankfein and his associates know exactly how they feel.  Read more. 
     
  • 4/5/11 - If you want to vote against hydraulic fracturing with your shares, you will join a long line of investor activists such as Green Century Equity Fund in Boston; one of New York State's retirement funds, the NYS Common Fund; and one of the consistently loudest voices in environmental activism: the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, based in Aston, PA. Yup, the nuns are in on the proxy-voting act.  Read more.
     
  • 3/21/11 - Investors Commend Delta Airlines for Efforts to Stop the Trafficking of Children.  Sister Nora Nash, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, another ICCR member who has been encouraging Australian carrier, Qantas, to sign The Code said: Thanks, Delta, for your leadership on this vital issue. In this case, being the first is first class! We won’t stop until every carrier and every hotel signs The Code and this egregious abuse is completely eradicated. We’ll know we’ve been successful when every child is free.  Read more.
     
  • 3/4/11 - Nuns to McDonald's:  What Are You Doing About Overweight Kids?  Read more.
     
  • 2/16/11 - St. Rose of Lima, a school where our sisters minister, prepares to celebrate its 135th anniversary.  Read more.
     
  • 1/21/11 - Shareholders file resolutions with Cabot Oil & Gas, ExxonMovil, Chevron, and other energy companies to spur more responsible fracking practices.  Read more.