Course Description: So, you convince your University Endowment or Family Foundation or Pension Fund that they want to divest from fossil fuels. What next? The following advanced introductory class is designed to introduce you to and outline the next steps decision makers need to take on their journey to develop fossil fuel free portfolio including the following: their Investment Beliefs, Review their Investment Advisor, Establish Evidenced Based Attribution Evaluation, Review the Portfolio for Environmental, Social, Governance impacts, and a suite of other tools.

In 2010, as a result of concern for climate change, student-led campaigns emerged on campuses across the U.S. pushing university endowments to divest from fossil fuels and invest in clean energy and the communities most impacted by climate change through their various assets (stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments). This student initiated effort became the fastest divestment movement in history by 2015. By December 2019, a total of 1,200 institutions and over 58,000 individuals representing $12 trillion in assets worldwide had been divested from fossil fuels.

The following webinar will introduce the concept of Full Spectrum Capital and how we can use Impact Investing and Financial Innovation Institute, Investor Accelerators aka Impact Investing Giving Circles and Investor Clubs to identify, educate, and activate full spectrum capital to increase the flows of aligned capital that will increase worker and community ownership while solving our climate crisis.

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Instructor(s): Dr. Stephanie Gripne, Founder and CEO of Impact Finance Center, Visiting Scholar at The Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School, Net Impact’s Innovator in Residence. Others TBD