Coho Partners - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Coho Partners is Lower Risk.

Coho Partners is Lower Risk. The company does not yield to political activism in shaping corporate governance, preventing initiatives that potentially alienate consumers, divide employees, and harm shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Coho Partners does not embrace corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues. This approach protects free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	No Data
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Coho Partners has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Coho Partners does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Coho Partners requires its employees to take unconscious bias and DEI training (1). Coho Partners appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment. From its 2024 Impact Report: “Recruitment firms are vetted for their diversity sources; prior to commencing a search, and diversity in the candidate pool is communicated as an important criterion in the search process” (2). Coho Partners does not publish a nondiscrimination policy (3)(4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Coho Partners supports ESG within its business practices. From its Impact Report: “We are staunch advocates of integrating material and financially relevant ESG metrics in business practices as a long term strategy” (1). Coho Partners supports DEI within its business practices, employing a DEI Committee, and hosting a DEI workshop for its employees. Coho Partners supports ESG within its business practices. From its ESG Insights: “Key pillars of our ESG investment strategy include engagement and active proxy voting to drive positive and meaningful change in corporate behavior; we seek increasing accountability for corporate results, including performance on sustainability, and improving board diversity” (2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Coho Partners using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Coho Partners has not used its corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1)(2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Coho Partners does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).