In the spring of 1966, ESCRU began moving tentatively away from its focus on southern segregation and towards a more institutional approach to combating racism. The organization targeted companies with holdings in South Africa and asked them to consider the adoption of equal-opportunity policies in their South African plants or to withdraw from the country. John Morris stated, “I predict that this will only be the beginning of pressure on U.S. industry to cease and desist from its partnership with racism in South Africa.”

As part of this effort, ESCRU coordinated Episcopal participation in a November demonstration at the Chase Manhattan Bank and the Episcopal Church Center to protest church investments in the bank, which had provided loans to the South African government. Working with the Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid, ESCRU also encouraged individual Episcopalians to move their accounts from Chase Bank.