Tag: Free Enterprise Project
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 ...
Free Enterprise Project Makes History With Microsoft Bitcoin Proposal
On Tuesday, MicroStrategy Chairman Michael Saylor will present a proposal at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting on behalf of the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) that asks Microsoft to consider adding bitcoin to its balance sheet. This proposal -- the first FEP ...
Scott Shepard Discusses Boycotts, HRC, WEF, Fascism and More During Pray Vote Stand Summit
"We have had a wonderful year or two," National Center General Counsel Scott Shepard acknowledges about the freedom movement's progress to move woke corporations back to neutral. But now is not the time to rest, because "we've got a huge ...
Wall Street Journal Front Page Features National Center Activism
The shareholder activism of the National Center's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) was featured yesterday on the front page of The Wall Street Journal print edition. In a page-one feature entitled "‘Anti-Woke’ Shareholders Are Going After Corporate Boards," Sarah Nassauer and ...
Planet Fitness Grilled Over Locker Rooms and Company Priorities
At today's Planet Fitness annual shareholder meeting, Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Deputy Director Stefan Padfield submitted two questions to leadership, and both questions were condensed and then answered. First Stefan asked: According to at least some reports, Planet Fitness lost ...
Attention Starbucks Investors: Take a Stand Against DEI
The Free Enterprise Project has an important proposal on the ballot of this week's Starbucks shareholder meeting. The proposal would require Starbucks to conduct an audit to determine the extent to which its “Partner Networks” (what are usually called Employee ...
FEP’s Day in Court Against the Weaponized SEC
Over the last few years our Free Enterprise Project (FEP) has waged an uphill battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has been doing the bidding of SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to discriminate against free-market organizations and ...
