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Investing in the Just Transition: How to Leverage Your Endowment
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
- Mercer Investment Consulting (MD)
- Global Endowment Management (NC)
The half trillion dollars in endowment funds invested by the nation's higher education institutions represent a relatively untapped resource containing immense economic and social power. The past few years ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Transforming the Future of Finance Through Student Engagement
- Bentley University (MA)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
This session will discuss the growth and proliferation of student-managed investment funds pursuing sustainable investing strategies, as well as the growth of sustainable investing curriculum development. Speakers will highlight examples ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Concentration in Sustainable Investing
- Bentley University (MA)
Finance majors have the option of a concentration in Sustainable Investing and all majors are eligible for a sustainable investing minor. Students graduating from this curriculum will have knowledge in ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Minor in Sustainable Investing
- Bentley University (MA)
Finance majors have the option of a concentration in Sustainable Investing and all majors are eligible for a sustainable investing minor. Students graduating from this curriculum will have knowledge in ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Educating the Next Generation of Sustainable Investment Leaders: A Report on the State of the Field of Student-Managed Investment Funds
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
This report compiles information on the 40 sustainably invested student-managed investment funds engaged in the Intentional Endowment Network's Sustainable and Impact Investing Learning & Knowledge (SIILK) Network. It highlights ...
- Posted March 10, 2022
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Learning How to Move Corporations on Climate and Racial Justice
- Ceres (MA)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
- As You Sow (CA)
SEC Commissioner Allison Lee recently shared with the corporate community that "A study from 2018 .. showed that 71 of the top 100 revenue generators globally were corporations while only 29 ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Leveraging $1 Trillion in Higher Ed Retirement Funds for a Just Transition
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
- Federated Hermes (PA)
The Higher Education Community has approximately one trillion in assets under management in their retirement plans. This represents an enormous pool of funds that could be leveraged to achieve a ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Investing in the Just Transition: How to Leverage Your Institution's Endowment
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
- RBC Global Asset Management
- Low Income Investment Fund (CA)
When exploring how to finance the just transition, the over half-trillion dollars in endowment funds invested by the nation's higher education institutions represent a relatively untapped resource containing immense ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Sustaining a Student-Led Environmental Movement at San Diego State University: Leveraging Collaboration to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Endowment
- San Diego State University (CA)
As the global economy grows, environmental activists increasingly work towards more environmentally sustainable investing practices, especially at higher education institutions. As Sustainability Commissioner (2019-2020) at San Diego State University (“SDSU ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Using Endowment Investing to Help Create a Sustainable Economy
- Lewis & Clark College (OR)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
- Cambridge Associates (VA)
The half trillion dollars in endowment funds invested by higher education institutions in the United States represent a relatively untapped resource with immense economic and social power. The past few ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Fiduciary Duty and University Fossil Fuel Divestments
- Soka University of America (CA)
One of the founding principles of Soka University of America is to 'foster leaders for the creative coexistence of nature and humanity.' Soka University has one of the highest endowments ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Connecting Endowment Investing, Experiential Education and Curriculum to Build a Sustainable Economy
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
This session will discuss the growth of student-managed investment funds pursuing sustainable investing strategies, as well as the growth of sustainable investing curriculum development, highlighting current successful funds and courses ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Divestment: How Public Universities Can Defund Climate Change
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
This presentation addresses widely held beliefs regarding institutional investors, specifically higher education's approach to investments, and provides a review of methods of fossil fuel divestment campaigns across the country ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Adapting Portfolios to Climate Change: 2 Degrees Investing
- Natixis Investment Managers (MA)
Green bonds are growing: Between 2015 and 2016 worldwide issuances of green bonds nearly doubled from $41 billion to $80 billion. The growth trajectory continued in 2017, as issuances for ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Best Practices in Integrating Sustainability and Business Education
- Appalachian State University (NC)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
This workshop focuses on how to integrate sustainability concepts into business education and increase engagement with the business community to improve their impacts. The primary focus will be on how ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Enabling Divestment from Fossil Fuels: Characterizing Divestment Awareness and Support at Dalhousie University
- Dalhousie University (NS)
A team of students at Dalhousie University has come together to develop a comprehensive research report on the state of divestment from fossil fuels at their University. Divestment campaigns have ...
- Posted April 11, 2018
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Investment and Divestment: Making Sustainable Choices with Campus Endowment
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
- AASHE (MA)
- 350.org (NY)
You've read about it in the news and have maybe even participated in the discussion or campaign on your campus -- divesting the campus endowment from fossil fuel resources is ...
- Posted April 3, 2018
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Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Issues Into Institutional Investment: A Handbook for Colleges and Universities
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
- Amnesty International
The purpose of this handbook is to assist colleges and universities in implementing investment policies that consider environmental, social, and governance issues. Each section of the handbook supports the development ...
- Posted Jan. 27, 2017
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Engaging Investment Managers on Proxy Voting & Other Forms of Shareholder Engagement
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
The Intentional Endowments Network's "Engaging Investment Managers on Proxy Voting & Other Forms of Shareholder Engagement" document outlines potential questions for investment managers on their proxy voting and other ...
- Posted Nov. 17, 2016
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The Business Case for ESG Briefing Paper
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
The Intentional Endowments Network's "Business Case for ESG Briefing Paper" was developed to help endowment stakeholders understand what Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing is, how ESG investing and ...
- Posted Nov. 17, 2016
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Bringing Responsible Investment to Campus: A Handbook for Committees on Investor Responsibiity
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
This toolkit is intended to be a guide to the creation, organization, and operation of Committees on Investor Responsibility that function effectively. Many schools have adopted the model of the ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Raising Student Voices: Student Action for University Community Investment
- University of San Francisco (CA)
- Wesleyan University (CT)
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
- Loyola University New Orleans (LA)
- Fordham University (NY)
- Duke University (NC)
- American University (DC)
- University of Chicago (IL)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
This report from The Democracy Collaborative and the Responsible Endowments Coalition seeks to connect struggling communities to local institutional wealth through engaging student activism. The report profiles three administration-led initiatives ...
- Posted Aug. 1, 2016
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Green revolving funds: A sustainable investment
- College of Saint Benedict (MN)
- University of Dayton (OH)
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
- Blessed Earth (KY)
- Saint John's University (MN)
There has recently been a groundswell of interest in sustainability in all its forms, and two organizations — Green Seminary Initiative and Seminary Stewardship Alliance — have emerged to provide resources and ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Commonfund Study of Responsible Investing: A Survey of Endowments and Their Affiliated Foundations
- Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (DC)
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) (DC)
Commonfund Institute, NACUBO and AGB survey builds upon the 2014 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments by delving in to responsible investing practices, policies and portfolio strategies. Topics covered include:
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Defining responsible ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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