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These 10 socially responsible companies know how to

make an impact beyond their headquarters:


Bank of Montreal
BMOs board diversity policy ensures that women represent at least a
third of the banks independent board of directors.
Equity and debt financing to the renewable energy sector amounted to
$3.6 billion in fiscal 2012, one of the highest among Canadian banks for
that year.
BMO funds a nationwide financial literacy program that aims to educate
45,000 students on personal finance over three years.
The Co-Operators Group Ltd.
Active participant in the United Nations Environment Programme Finance
Initiative and the first North American signatory to the UN Principles for
Sustainable Insurance.
Offers sustainable insurance products, including its EnviroGuard
endorsement and LEED home coverage, which provides either additional
coverage or discounts for environmentally responsible home owners.
Having reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by 15 per cent since 2007,
the group has set an aggressive target of zero net emissions, across its
facilities and in its business travel, by 2020.
Desjardins Group
Desjardins General Insurance offers a 20 per cent green savings
premium for electric cars, in addition to 10 per cent savings on fuelefficient cars and 15 per cent on hybrid vehicles.
A Canadian leader in micro-financing, supporting 19,600 microentrepreneurs, over eight years, in small-business ventures.
Helps newcomers to Canada integrate in Quebecs job market by
providing loans for certificates or training for workers previously trained
abroad.
Royal Bank of Canada
As part of its enhanced sourcing policy, RBC has made a public
commitment to work with suppliers to address conflict minerals in its
supply chain.

Underwrote Canadas first investment-grade solar bond, issued in 2012.


The $172-million bond supports two solar farms in Ontario with a
combined production capacity of 40 megawatts that will feed into the
Ontario power grid.
TD Bank Group
TDs new responsible procurement policy states that the company will
endeavour to source products and services that protect human rights,
ethics, diversity/inclusion and the environment.
Since 2012, TD Forests has protected 487 hectares of critical forest
habitat across North America as part of its commitment to protect more
than two football fields per day of North American forest habitat over the
next five years.
Vancity (Vancouver City Savings Credit Union)
Pioneered responsible investing by launching Canadas first ethical fund
in 1986 and by integrating environmental and social issues into
investment strategy.
Adopted a living wage policy whereby 100 per cent of eligible Vancity
employees are paid at least $19.14 per hour (salary and benefits), well
above B.C.s minimum wage of $10.25.
Approved $386 million in community-impact loans in 2012loans to
organizations that demonstrate positive social, environmental, or cultural
impactrepresenting around one-third of all approved loans to
organizations.

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