Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute

The Action Center on Race and the Economy operates at the intersection of racial justice and the financial sector’s accountability. The center’s work is focused on the role of financial firms in creating, exacerbating, and profiting from racial and economic inequality. It provides research, communications, and strategic support for organizations working on campaigns to win structural change, supporting them in directly challenging the corporate actors that are responsible for pillaging and profiting off of crises in communities of color. The organization focuses on climate change and environmental racism, technology and surveillance, policing and incarceration, public services, Islamophobia, housing, and financial services.

The Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) Institute operates at the intersection of racial justice and Wall Street accountability. The institute’s work is focused on the role of financial firms in creating, exacerbating, and profiting from racial and economic inequality. ACRE provides research, communications, and strategic support for organizations working on campaigns to win structural change, supporting them in directly challenging the corporate actors that are responsible for pillaging and profiting off of crises in communities of color. The organization focuses on climate change and environmental racism, technology and surveillance, policing and incarceration, public services, Islamophobia, housing, and financial services.

The Action Center on Race & the Economy, in partnership with Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, the Public Accountability Institute, and Bargaining for the Common Good, seeks to direct heightened attention to the issues with fiduciary duties, and the changes that should be made to modernize them and better align them with other advanced economies, especially with regard to integration of climate-focused ESG factors. The center will educate investors about climate-friendly ESG funds, push regulators to require fiduciaries responsible for overseeing retirement accounts and other investments to integrate climate-related risks and opportunities into their investment decisions, produce a robust report on the investment of major asset managers in high carbon emitting corporations, and make genuinely climate-friendly ESG funds more readily available to customers. (Substrategy: Climate Finance)