shareholder resolution · 2025
American Family Association at Deere & Company
Asked Deere to publish a report on its charitable giving, and in particular on how its employee matching gift programme treats religious organisations. Bowyer Research says Deere's rules exclude seminaries, schools of theology, Bible schools and organisations working only for sectarian purposes from matching, which the firm describes as inconsistent treatment of employees of faith.
What happened
Result: Precatory proposal voted on as Proposal 8 at the annual meeting of 26 February 2025. Votes for 2,549,298; votes against 200,450,816; abstentions 2,066,411; broker non-votes 31,663,030. That is 1.26% of the votes cast for and against, or 1.24% if abstentions are counted in the base. The proposal was not approved. Deere's board recommended a vote against it.
We found no documented change to Deere's charitable giving or matching gift rules that any source we opened attributes to this proposal. Deere's board told shareholders its philanthropy is focused on ending hunger, alleviating poverty and enhancing education rather than on benefiting any particular organization.
Who is involved
- American Family Association filer
- Deere & Company company
What this campaign is about
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