How do you get mutual funds and pension funds to take an active role? Well first, you need to see how they vote. They disclose, which is really great, but they do it in nonstandard, UGLY files burried on the SEC's website. We organize the votes of these institutions so that anyone, The Sierra Club, mom and pop mutual fund holder, Elliot Spitzer, academics, journalists, ... can see how these funds are voting billions and sometimes even trillions of dollars. For instance, this is how four T. Rowe Price mutual funds vote.

Also, our site can help people vote on their own by showing them how institutions will vote. These instituions are the active pension funds CalPERS, CalSTRS and Florida SBA, as well as mutual funds like Calvert, Domini, Trillium, Green Century and MMA Praxis, the labor pension fund AFSCME and the Catholic pension fund CBIS. You can see how these funds have voted and will vote on about 5000 meetings a year, such as KLA-Tencor which meets in a few weeks.

Altogether, we think this can get people to participate. And that can get the ball rolliing like Spitzer is talking about here. By the way, our director was appointed to the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee.