Corporate Social Investing

Foreword by Paul Newman

In 1994, Paul Newman was awarded his second Oscar. While a previous Academy Award had recognized his performance as an actor, the second tribute acknowledged Newman’s real-life role as a leading and ingenious philanthropist. In 1982, he founded Newman’s Own, a food company that contributes 100 percent of its after-tax profits to charity. In the fifteen years since its founding, over $90 million has been donated by Newman’s Own to charities around the world.

These charities include not only the seven international camps (the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Association) that provide therapeutic camping experiences to children with serious and often life-threatening conditions but also hundreds of other charities in the United ...