La Colombe Coffee Roasters

Rating Overview

La Colombe Coffee Roasters is Medium Risk.

La Colombe Coffee Roasters is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company elevates merit, excellence, and integrity ahead of race and identity-based policies. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	Medium Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	High 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:

La Colombe Coffee Roasters 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:

Lower

Rationale:

La Colombe Coffee Roasters does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

La Colombe Coffee Roasters does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

La Colombe CEO Todd Carmichael has spoken publicly on his various policy stances, denouncing a Republican tax bill and advocating for a minimum wage increase at the height of the national debate surrounding the issue (1)(2). La Colombe Coffee Roasters participated in the #StopHateForProfit movement on Facebook (3). The company is a member of the “Don’t Ban Equality” business coalition, which advocates against any abortion restrictions because they are “bad for business” (4). La Colombe’s CEO is a signatory to CEOs for Gun Safety (5). The company’s CEO & Co-Founder, Todd Carmichael, denounced various states’ legislative efforts to protect election integrity and security (6).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

La Colombe Coffee Roasters provides a benefits package for employees that covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion (1). The company funds the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Everytown for Gun Safety (2). La Colombe is a donor to the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, which engages in pro-abortion advocacy (3). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of La Colombe using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (4).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

La Colombe does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3)