October 26, 2000

SOCIALFUNDS.COM LAUNCHES CORPORATE SOCIAL RESEARCH CENTER

Information on the social performance of companies made available online for the first time.

Brattleboro, VT – SRI World Group, Inc., today launched the Corporate Social Research Center at socialfunds.com, the Web’s largest personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing. For the first time ever, social investors have access to social and environmental profiles of more than 1,000 U.S. and foreign, publicly traded companies.

"The Corporate Social Research Center is an important extension of the Internet's ability to provide useful and timely information to individual investors who want to manage their personal investments. This Center will allow individual investors to integrate their values with their investment decisions," according to Jay Falk, President and Founder of SRI World Group.

The Corporate Social Research Center allows users to access a broad range of company level information related to corporate social responsibility news, press releases, shareholder resolutions, and corporate social and environmental research. Social performance reports are based on research by Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini & Co, Inc. (KLD), a leading corporate social research firm. Through the Center’s interactive tools, users can view profiles of companies found in the S&P 500 and Domini Social Index, as well as hundreds of other publicly traded companies.

"Many events have contributed to the growth and mainstreaming of social investing over the last decade," said Falk. "The launch of the Corporate Social Research Center is another important milestone toward greater acceptance of social investing," he continued. The content from the Corporate Social Research Center will be syndicated to personal finance, brokerage, and cause -related Web sites. Mr. Falk added, "For the first time, millions of individual investors will have the information they need to evaluate corporate social and environmental performance."

SRI World Group, Inc is an Internet-based financial information services firm. The company operates socialfunds.com, a comprehensive personal finance site for social investors. In addition to the Corporate Social Research Center, the socialfunds.com site features daily coverage of social investment news, social mutual fund data, shareholder resolutions, community investing, and financial advice. SRI World Group also operates CSRwire.com, a newswire service featuring the most recent corporate social responsibility press releases from Fortune 1000 companies.