{"id":16766,"date":"2021-05-07T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2021-05-07T22:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:03:10","slug":"bbt-issues-annual-dod-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/bbt-issues-annual-dod-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"BBT issues annual lists of companies screened from investments for Dept. of Defense contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Jean Bednar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an agency of a historic peace church that believes in nonviolence, Brethren Benefit Trust has long screened out investing the funds of Brethren Pension Plan members and its money management clients in weapons and weapons systems, firearms, and US Department of Defense contracts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"341\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/drone-conference-pic.png\" alt=\"drone\" class=\"wp-image-13811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/drone-conference-pic.png 341w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/drone-conference-pic-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever possible, investments utilized by BBT\u2019s members, clients, and donors are screened according to Brethren Values Investing guidelines, which are consistent with Church of the Brethren Annual Conference statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each year, BBT produces two lists of companies that earn significant revenue from US military operations. One list identifies the top 25 publicly traded defense contractors based on the size of contracts awarded by the Department of Defense, and the other list includes all publicly traded companies that generate 10 percent or more of their revenue from Department of Defense contracts. These lists are then presented to the BBT board at its April meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to these lists, BBT\u2019s investment managers also screen out companies that generate 10 percent or more of their revenues from abortion, alcohol, gambling, pornography, and tobacco. Companies that are egregious violators of environmental or human rights regulations also are screened from BBT portfolios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see the 2021 Department of Defense lists compiled by BBT, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cobbt.org\/screening\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.cobbt.org\/screening\">www.cobbt.org\/screening<\/a>. For more information on Brethren Values Investing, contact Steve Mason at <a href=\"mailto:smason@cobbt.org\">smason@cobbt.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-volunteer-service-unit-340\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 340 completes orientation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-unidad-340-del-bvs\/\">La Unidad 340 del Servicio Voluntario de los Hermanos completa la orientaci\u00f3n.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/inite-sevis-volonte-fre-yo-340\/\">Inite S\u00e8vis Volont\u00e8 Fr\u00e8 yo 340 fini oryantasyon an<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-manual-in-creole-french\/\">New Pastor\u2019s Manual in Haitian Creole and French to be used in Haiti and Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/nuevo-manual-para-pastores\/\">Nuevo manual para pastores en criollo haitiano y franc\u00e9s para ser utilizado en Hait\u00ed y \u00c1frica.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an agency of a historic peace church that believes in nonviolence, Brethren Benefit Trust has long screened out investing the funds of Brethren Pension Plan members and its money management clients in weapons and weapons systems, firearms, and US Department of Defense contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[1270,160,3,2072,2074,2073,1263],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-16766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bbt","tag-brethren-benefit-trust","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-department-of-defense-lists","tag-historic-peace-church","tag-investment-screening","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16767,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16766\/revisions\/16767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16766"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}