The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced their decision to join the divestment movement last week, pledging to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to continue investing ...

Student Assembly members voted Thursday to reject Resolution 36, which would “urge” Cornell to divest from companies “profiting from the occupation of Palestine and human rights violations.” The ...

Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, mulls the question: Why don’t foundations collaborate more? “It’s not to say foundations don’t collaborate,” she says. “But we don’t do it ...

College campuses can sometimes plant the seeds for dramatic shifts in public policy. This was most evident in the 1980s, when students across the country protested apartheid in South Africa. By ...

A movement to divest from fossil fuel is gaining support among foundations as activists push for funding to be shifted away from coal, oil, and natural gas. The call from activists to the charitable ...

Consider it a good sign for the growing movement for divestment from fossil fuels: Middlebury College president Ronald Liebowitz announced today that the college is initiating a “formal process” to ...

Although Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Oct. 21 that the school will remain invested in fossil fuels, Boston University has yet to make a formal decision on divestment. GRAPHIC BY ...

A group of protesters known as the “Climate Lamentors” stand in front of the CalPERS board of administration during an investment committee meeting on Monday, Nov. 17, urging the board to divest from ...