Tag: Free Enterprise Project
FEP Locks In Deals With Chevron, PepsiCo and Bristol Myers Squibb
The shareholder activism wins keep coming in 2026! On the heels of our announcement last week that our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) had successfully negotiated shareholder proposal withdrawals with five corporations -- Prudential, Eli Lilly, Exxon, Capital One and AT&T ...
CVS Breaks Free from HRC After FEP Activism
CVS has dropped its corporate sponsorship of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) has long called for corporations to distance themselves from this polarizing institution, and now we're finally beginning to see the fruit ...
DOJ’s Uber Lawsuit Triggers Questions from Disability Activists and Shareholder Activists
The National Center's Able Americans program and Free Enterprise Project teamed up to deliver a letter to the Uber board of directors yesterday seeking answers related to the recent lawsuit filed against Uber by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding ...
National Center Honored with NCLA Award for Client Bravery
We're beyond honored to be chosen by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) to receive this year's George Washington Award for Client Bravery. At an NCLA event this week in Washington, D.C., Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Executive Director Stefan Padfield ...
Join Our Team! The Free Enterprise Project is Hiring
Do you believe, as Milton Friedman said, that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits? If so, we may have a job for you. Our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) -- the original and premier opponent of the woke ...
Kudos to Comcast For Making Meaningful Changes In Response to National Center Proposal
On Monday, the National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) team agreed to withdraw the shareholder proposal we had submitted to Comcast in exchange for Comcast making meaningful positive changes to its terms of service, advancing religious liberty and viewpoint neutrality ...
Costco Packs Big Discrimination Into Big Box Store
At Annual Meeting, Costco Refuses to Join Others Retreating From DEI Washington, D.C. – Despite public outcry, Costco shareholders failed yesterday to approve a shareholder proposal (Proposal 4) presented from the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project ...
Stefan Padfield Named as Free Enterprise Project’s New Executive Director
We are delighted to announce that Stefan Padfield has been named as the new executive director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP). Stefan, who joined the FEP team in 2023, previously spent over 15 years teaching law at ...
Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules Blocked in Response to National Center Lawsuit
Washington, D.C. -- On Wednesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, on behalf of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) and the Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment, convinced the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
Bitcoin Shareholder Activism Begins: Investors Ask Microsoft to Consider Investing in Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Inflation
Washington, D.C. -- Today, shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present Microsoft shareholders with a proposal (Proposal 5) - the first of its kind - asking the company to consider adding ...
