United States was invested in socially responsible investment (SRI) strategies (Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, 2012). This indicates a 486 percent increase from $639 million invested in 1995. In comparison, the broader universe of assets under professional management has grown just 376 percent in that same period (Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, 2012). SRI strategies include Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) incorporation, Shareholder Advocacy, and Community Investing. With regard to shareholder advocacy, from 2010 to 2012 about 176 institutional investors with $1.28 trillion in assets filed or co-filed proposals (Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, 2012). These institutional investors include public funds, religious investors, labor funds, foundations and endowments. The involvement of religious investors in SRI should come as no surprise as the roots of social investing can be traced back to the Quakers and Mennonites and perhaps to John Wesley, the founder of the Methodists, who advocated the proper use of money (Callahan, 2002; Schueth, 2003). In the latter half of the twentieth century, the involvement of religious institutional investors in SRI was spurred on by the founding of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) in 1971 (Smith & Wolf, 2002). The center was founded largely in response to the growing concern over American involvement during the Vietnam War and the issue of apartheid in South Africa. The center's first social policy resolution was filed in 1971 with General Motors calling for GM to withdraw from South Africa (Smith & Wolf, 2002). By 1975, ICCR had about twelve Protestant church agencies and twenty-eight Roman Catholic organizations in their membership. In 2002 the membership had grown to 275 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish institutional investors (Smith & Wolf, 2002). Included in the Roman Catholic membership from the early years of ICCR was the U.S. Jesuit Conference representing a religious order of men known as the Society of Jesus or more commonly as the Jesuits (Callahan, 2002). A major reason for the involvement of religious institutional investors in SRI is that of "bringing forth God's reign of justice on earth" (Smith & Wolf, 2002 p.). These investors see SRI as a work of structural justice (Jesuit Conference, 2013). A central question of this volume is whether SRI strategies make any difference to society. The growing number of religious institutional investors that are engaged in shareholder advocacy is itself a testimony to the value that these investors perceive in engaging corporations on a variety of issues that affect the economy, community and environment. It is likely that this group of investors might persist with their SRI investments in anticipation of future impact, even if current evidence is either lacking or not sufficiently convincing. As is pointed out in ICCR's Social Sustainability Resource Guide, religious institutional investors play a dual role as "investors and as community parti...