Our shares. Our votes. Our future.

As real human investors, our wellbeing depends on far more than quarterly profits.

We the Shareholders tackles the fundamental challenges of shareholder disenfranchisement, involuntary dissociation, and unfettered wealth-inequality that stand in the way of human investors' ability to engage, influence, and change corporate behavior—challenges that undermine American democracy itself.

Join us in restoring corporate democracy and making capitalism sustainable.

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“Shareholder activism remains a large stick lying on the ground, waiting to be picked up.” 

David Webber
Professor of Law, Boston University and author of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder

137 million Americans own stocks directly or indirectly.
O'Leary and Valdmanis (2020); see also Federal Reserve Board (53% of households)
28% of eligible human shareholder votes were cast in 2020.
Broadridge + PwC (2020)

Our Products
Change corporations. Change the world.

athena™ 

Invest. Connect. Vote. Change the world. 

Our Athena app and platform empower human investors to invest, grow wealth, and exercise their corporate civic rights and responsibilities as we were always meant to.

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Long-Term Investing

Build wealth and security.
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Automated Proxy Voting

Never miss a vote.
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Values-Based Automation

Vote your values and beliefs.
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Restored Community

Find your co-owners, friends, and like-minded shareholders.
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Organizing

Organize like-minded shareholders.
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Change

Create meaningful and lasting change.

Real “activist shareholders” are good stewards and responsible corporate citizens.

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Disclaimer: Nothing on this site shall be construed as an offer to sell securities, as investment advice, as legal advice, or as tax advice. We the Shareholders PBC does not currently sell, trade, distribute, or advise on securities. We the Shareholders PBC is currently neither registered nor in the process of registering under the 1940 Investment Company Act. We the Shareholders PBC is currently neither a broker-dealer nor a registered investment advisor.

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“Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part.” 

John Lewis
Congressman

67% of eligible voters voted in the 2020 general election.
United States Elections Project (2020)
28% of eligible human shareholder votes were cast in 2020.
Broadridge + PwC (2020)

voting funds™ 

Reclaim your fundamental voting rights. 

Once realized, Voting Funds will be the first-ever voting-pass-through family of mutual funds and ETFs.

Although 137 million Americans own stocks, 77% are disenfranchised, and fewer than 16% of American households retain any shareholder voting rights.

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Trailblazing

Be a part of something bold and new.
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Impact

Always make a difference.
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Voting Rights

Never lose your voting rights again.

We the Shareholders and our partners are working hard to make Voting Funds a reality.

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Disclaimer: Nothing on this site shall be construed as an offer to sell securities, as investment advice, as legal advice, or as tax advice. We the Shareholders PBC does not currently sell, trade, distribute, or advise on securities. We the Shareholders PBC is currently neither registered nor in the process of registering under the 1940 Investment Company Act. We the Shareholders PBC is currently neither a broker-dealer nor a registered investment advisor.

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“It is important to grapple with the problems connected with the amassing of enormous fortunes, and the use of those fortunes, both corporate and individual.” 

Theodore Roosevelt
President of the United States

75% of shareholder voting power is held by institutional investors.
Toward a Fair and Sustainable Capitalism (2019)
Income inequality in America reached the highest levels in over fifty years, the highest ever recorded.
Census Bureau (2018–19)
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“What kind of capitalism do we want?” 

Klaus Schwab
Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

56% of people believe capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world.
Edelman Trust Barometer 2020
76% of people believe business can and should be a force for good in society as well as making profits.
Edelman Trust Barometer 2020

Our Mission
To fulfill the promise of corporate democracy and sustainable capitalism by enfranchising and organizing the world's shareholders.

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“If the owners of our corporations don't care about governance, who else is there?” 

John Bogel
Founder of Vanguard Group and author of The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

Fewer than 16% of all American households retain any shareholder voting rights.
Federal Reserve Board (2019)
Of those retail votes, only 28% were cast in 2020.
Broadridge + PwC (2020)
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“It is naive to think that institutional investors themselves will behave differently if action is not taken to address the incentives that cause their interests to diverge from those people whose funds they invest.” 

Leo E. Strine, Jr.
Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court

6% of the US stock market was owned by institutional investors in 1950.
The 2010 Institutional Investment Report
71% of the US stock market is owned by institutional investors today.
Broadridge + PwC (2020)

About Us
We the Shareholders Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)

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Disclaimer: Nothing on this site shall be construed as an offer to sell securities, as investment advice, as legal advice, or as tax advice. We the Shareholders PBC does not currently sell, trade, distribute, or advise on securities. We the Shareholders PBC is currently neither registered nor in the process of registering under the 1940 Investment Company Act. We the Shareholders PBC is currently neither a broker-dealer nor a registered investment advisor.
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