Chuck Darwin<p>A recent <a href="https://c.im/tags/Teneo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teneo</span></a> fundraising email laid out how the group can bring its members' influence together in service of a cause.</p><p>To “confront” what he dubbed “woke capitalism,” Jonathan <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bunch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bunch</span></a>, a longtime Leo deputy and now Teneo board member, wrote that the group had brought together a coalition of Teneans “working with (or serving as) state <a href="https://c.im/tags/attorneys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attorneys</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/general" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>general</span></a>, state <a href="https://c.im/tags/financial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>financial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/officers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>officers</span></a>, state <a href="https://c.im/tags/legislators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legislators</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>, media <a href="https://c.im/tags/executives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>executives</span></a> and best-in-class public affairs <a href="https://c.im/tags/professionals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professionals</span></a>” to launch investigations, hold hearings, pull state investment funds and publish op-eds and news stories in response to so-called environmental, social and governance, or ESG, policies at the corporate level.</p><p>“Our members were in the rooms where it happened,” Bunch wrote.</p><p>Another project underway, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Baehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Baehr</span></a> explained in a 2020 presentation, was a “<a href="https://c.im/tags/surreptitious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surreptitious</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/exciting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exciting</span></a>” effort to map key institutions in major cities — private <a href="https://c.im/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/countryclubs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>countryclubs</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/newspapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newspapers</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rotary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rotary</span></a> and so on — and find ways to get Teneo members inside those institutions and help members connect with each other. </p><p>The initiative has begun by mapping Atlanta and several cities in Texas</p>