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Home Depot Releases Proxy Statement on Electioneering Contributions (4/20/11)

Home Depot Releases Proxy Statement on Electioneering Contributions (4/20/11)

Home Depot has released their annual proxy including a resolution calling for a shareholder vote requesting that political contributions reflect Home Depot’s stated corporate values. The resolution, filed by NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. of Boston, was filed in the aftermath of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the controversial Supreme Court decision in January of 2010 that removed prohibitions on corporate electioneering contributions.

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FedEx Delivers LGBT Benefits (5/27/10)

FedEx Delivers LGBT Benefits (5/27/10)

After seven months of dialogue with FedEx Corporation, NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. is pleased to report that FedEx has committed to extending health benefits to domestic partners of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees in every state. Prompted by a discrepancy between FedEx’s comprehensive non-discrimination policy and the Company’s benefits packages, NorthStar filed a shareholder resolution with FedEx in April of this year asking that equal benefits be extended to partners and families of LGBT senior executives.

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Intel Inside, Safe Water Outside: Intel Recognizes the Human Right to Water

Intel Inside, Safe Water Outside: Intel Recognizes the Human Right to Water

On the eve of World Water Day (March 22), Boston portfolio management company NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. is pleased to announce successful negotiations with Intel Corporation on the creation of an official Intel policy that supports the human right to water. Intel Corp. is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of semiconductor chips, the creation of which requires the ongoing use of large amounts of water.

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PepsiCo Agrees that Access to Water is a Human Right (3/26/09)

PepsiCo Agrees that Access to Water is a Human Right (3/26/09)

NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., a socially responsible investment firm, is pleased to announce successful negotiations with PepsiCo, worldwide food and beverage manufacturer, of an official PepsiCo policy in support of the human right to water. PepsiCo is the first publicly traded, multinational corporation to create such a policy.

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Shareholder Activists Challenge PepsiCo On Human Right to Water (5/1/08)

Shareholder Activists Challenge PepsiCo On Human Right to Water (5/1/08)

In the face of increasingly alarming statistics about the global availability of clean drinking water, PepsiCo shareholders and human rights activists have teamed up to demand that PepsiCo create and follow a policy that respects the Human Right to Water.

“Water scarcity is a serious modern-day reality,” says Julie Goodridge, CEO of NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., a wealth management firm based in Boston.

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