Calvert tries to meet or exceed those same corporate social responsibility expectations for its own operations. Thus Calvert employees consider it a flexible, family friendly workplace. Calvert encourages employee volunteerism, giving twelve paid days off a year to each employee to devote to working with community groups.
Corporate executives are under excruciating pressure to maximize quarterly shareholder returns.
They invest with a view of a company's long-term potential and sustainable business practices. After all, most investors invest for retirement during their entire working life. As the number and power of individual investors increases as opposed to institutional investors and money management firms, more and more are socially conscious investors able to vote with their wallets. Thus the goal of the Calvert Group is to improve the quality of life for its investors, employees, and the communities in which it lives and works, while providing competitive investment returns.