Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Alternate Names: Corporate Information Center, Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility
Location: New York, New York, United States
Duration: 1973 - current (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility); Late 1960s - 1973 (Corporate Information Center and Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility)
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is a sponsor related movement of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) founded in 1973. It was the successor organization to the Corporate Information Center (CIC) and the Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility (ICSR). CIC was a research and interpretive office...
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is a sponsor related movement of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) founded in 1973. It was the successor organization to the Corporate Information Center (CIC) and the Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility (ICSR). CIC was a research and interpretive office within the NCC concerned primarily with church investments and issues of corporate responsibility. CIC began in the late 1960s and early 1970s in part as an outgrowth of opposition to the Vietnam War. Like anti-war students of the day, progressive clergy questioned whether churches were profiting off the war, which many churches opposed in the period when CIC began. ICSR was a coordinating body for religious shareholders. In the 1970s and 1980s much of ICCR's efforts focused on U.S. companies doing business in South Africa, Namibia, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and in the Portuguese colonies. ICCR members met with companies, and ICCR coordinated religious shareholders filing and supporting shareholder resolutions at companies doing business in and/or making loans to South Africa and Namibia. Before to the end of Portuguese colonialism in 1975, CIC/ICCR also worked on companies doing business in Angola and Mozambique. Prior to 1980 when Zimbabwe became independent, CIC/ICCR also focused on companies doing business and breaking sanctions in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), including U.S. companies importing chrome. ICCR created a "dirty dozen" list of the worst U.S. investors in South Africa. Working with other organizations, ICCR led campaigns against companies doing business in South Africa including Mobil and Citibank. The Immobilize Apartheid Coalition operated out of the ICCR office. Timothy Smith, who traveled to South Africa to investigate U.S. companies in 1970 and 1971, worked with CIC/ICCR from 1971 was the director of ICCR form 1976-2000. Donna Katzin was Director of South Africa and International Justice Programs from 1986-1994. Currently ICCR is an association of over 275 faith- based institutional investors, including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, foundations, hospital corporations, economic development funds, asset management companies, colleges, and unions. (Source: ICCR website, various CIC and ICCR publications, and Timothy Smith.)
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