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 ...

Brown University’s board of governors has rejected a closely scrutinized, student-led proposal to divest from companies with business in Israel. The rejection allays concerns expressed by some ...

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 ...

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 ...

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday joined more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals who have promised to divest from fossil fuels, as new ...

Last month, Rhode Island School of Design Students for Justice in Palestine presented an Israel divestment proposal to members of RISD’s Board of Trustees. The board plans to “share their thoughts” on ...

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 s campuses come back to life this fall, many pro-Palestinian students will resume their protests from the spring against Israel’s war on Hamas. Once again they will demand that their colleges divest ...

A pro-Israel group at the University of Pennsylvania, the Think Peace Coalition, expressed concern over a campaign called “Penn Divest from Displacement,” a divestment movement at the Penn campus, The ...

Alongside threats of funding cuts, tax hikes and tariffs, pressure to divest from certain areas of investments is among the issues throwing university and college endowments into the spotlight. And ...

(JTA) — Brown University’s board of governors has rejected a closely scrutinized, student-led proposal to divest from companies with business in Israel. The rejection allays concerns expressed by some ...