Finn Elected Chair of ICCR

At their June meeting in San Francisco, the member organizations of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) elected Seamus Finn, O.M.I., as chairperson of their Board of Directors.  The Oblates in the U.S. have been actively involved with the ICCR for many years.  As director of the Oblate national Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Office, Fr. Finn has been the principal agent of the Oblates' efforts in promoting corporate responsibility for over a decade.

For over thirty years the ICCR coalition has been the leading faith-based actor in encouraging corporations to acknowledge their social responsibilities nationally and internationally.  The 275 member organizations of ICCR include national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, endowments, hospital corporations, economic development funds and publishing companies.  As institutional investors, these faith-based organizations such as the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate sponsor over 100 shareholder resolutions each year on major social and environmental issues.  Their combined portfolio value is estimated to be $110 billion.  At the present, these efforts are focused upon nine areas:  promoting human rights;  water and food;  access to health care;  the contract supplier system;  corporate governance;  enabling access to capital;  violence and the militarization of society;  environmental justice;  and global warming.