The following are social screens used to eliminate holdings from CHA's portfolios that are contrary to our mission and church teaching:

1. Respect for Human Life — CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that do any of the following:
   1. Manufacture abortifacient drugs or operate healthcare or physician management organizations that provide abortions;
   2. Promote or encourage physician-assisted suicide, either through products, services, or dissemination of information;
   3. Manufacture contraceptives or derive more than 2% of revenue from the sale of contraceptive drugs or devices; or
   4. Engage in embryonic stem cell research, cloning of human beings, and current research using tissues from aborted fetuses.

    

2. Tobacco — CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that do either of the following:
   1. Manufacture tobacco products; or
   2. Derive more than 10% of revenues from the sale of tobacco or tobacco-related products.

    

3. Violence — CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that derive 10% or more of revenues via the promotion of violence in society through the production or sale of weapons of mass destruction (chemical, nuclear, biological), land mines or firearms.

    

4. Pornography — CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that produce or originally distribute/promote pornography or pornographic materials.

    

5. Child Labor/Sweatshops — CHA will not knowingly invest in companies involved in current sweatshop or child labor controversies.

    

6. For-Profit Healthcare — CHA will not knowingly invest in any publicly-traded for-profit organization that provides acute care or continuing care.

    

7. Gambling — CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that derive more than 20% of revenue from gambling activities.

    

8. Environment — CHA will not knowingly invest in any company involved in more than one federal environmental lawsuit with environmental penalty experience worse than the average for its industry