Harvard Law School Forum: Guide to Corporate Political Spending: A Practical Checklist for Management
The purpose of the Guide is to help safeguard companies as they make political spending decisions in today’s charged environment.
Investors Ask Members of BRT To Evaluate How Their Political Activities May Reinforce Or Undermine Democratic Institutions
Today members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) announced they had sent letters to members of the Business Roundtable urging them to align political spending with their state core values, to mitigate both reputational risks to the company, and broader risks to democracy.
The FirstEnergy scandal shows everything that could wrong with companies’ political spending in 2024
Corporations increasingly face risk from their political spending, and that risk is heightened when they have not charted where funds will actually go.
Former Ohio House Speaker Sentenced to 20 Years After Bribery Conviction
“The whole issue of dark money and soliciting dark money presents a real crisis in our political system today and poses a real risk to companies,” said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, a Washington, D.C., group that pushes companies to disclose more about their financing of political efforts. “At this point,…
Conservatives Want Corporate Political Responsibility
Bud Light. Disney. Goya. Coca-Cola. Delta. The one thing these companies all have in common is they have all found themselves in the crosshairs of American politics.
Support for Abortion-Related Risk Disclosure Wanes This Year
Coca-Cola and UPS investors are among those rejecting abortion bids. Growing Awareness of risks from political, lobbying donations.
Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups
Donations have helped utilities increase electricity prices, hinder solar schemes and helped elect sympathetic legislators…
Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game
Blue-chip companies gave to Republican group funneling money to lawmakers who overturned abortion-ban veto in North Carolina.
Looking Behind the Curtain: Corporate due diligence of political spending essential to protect companies from growing risks
As the 2024 election cycle begins in earnest, companies must act on their fiduciary responsibility to more closely monitor their political spending and the accompanying risk.