The Intentional Endowments Network is a peer learning network that supports higher education institutions in aligning their endowment investment practices with their mission, values, and sustainability goals without sacrificing financial returns. The organization focuses on promoting sustainable investing strategies and fiduciary responsibility to support a healthy, just, and sustainable society.

Intentional Endowments Network

Student Corporate Engagement Challenge

The Intentional Endowments Network supports colleges, universities, and other mission-driven tax-exempt organizations in aligning their endowment investment practices with their mission, values, and sustainability goals without sacrificing financial returns. In doing so, this broad-based, collaborative network will make a significant and critical contribution to creating a healthy, just, and sustainable society. 

Working closely with leading organizations and initiatives that are promoting institutional leadership on economic, social, and environmental sustainability, the network engages key leaders and stakeholders in the higher education, business, and non-profit sectors. It provides opportunities for education and training, peer networking, convening, thought leadership and information exchange.

Our goal is to create a robust and active network of institutional leaders and their stakeholders, industry practitioners and academic experts, that serves as a vehicle for a variety of actions (meetings, trainings, conferences, resources, education, peer-learning, etc.) to achieve the following outcomes:

Intentionally designed endowments, aligned with institutional mission, values, and sustainability goals, become the norm in higher education and other tax-exempt organizations, evidenced by growth in policies, practices and actions.

Improved sustainability performance by businesses in response to investor concerns, evidenced by changes in corporate reporting, policies and behaviors related to investor demands and shareholder resolutions.

#TBT Anthony Rust shares why Warren Wilson College included #JEDI in their investment processes at IEN #2023FallForum 

The anti #ESG rhetoric hasn't influenced investors' investment trajectory as new research by Natixis Investment Managers shares that 70% of institutional investors report #ESG analysis has become integral to investment processes. 

The report also highlights seven key trends in ESG and sustainability through an in-depth survey of #pensionfunds, #insurers, sovereign wealth funds, #endowments and #foundations.

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We're thrilled to share that all 23 universities in the California State University system have joined our Network to engage and learn with peer institutions to further sustainable investing and promote equity in finance.

Huge thanks to Garrett Ashley and Aaron Moore for facilitating this collaboration, and a warm welcome to these new members!

The 23 campuses of the CSU system are California State University, Bakersfield, California State University Channel Islands, California State University, Chico, California State University-Dominguez Hills, California State University - East Bay, California State University, Fresno, California State University, Fullerton, Cal Poly Humboldt, California State University, Long Beach, California State University, Los Angeles, California State University Maritime Academy, California State University, Monterey Bay, California State University, Northridge, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, California State University-Sacramento, California State University-San Bernardino, San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, California State University San Marcos, Sonoma State University and California State University, Stanislaus.
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Principles for Responsible Investment shares a report of 11 case studies on #netzero implementation in equity portfolios.

"The case studies explain which metrics and methodologies investors use and why, providing hypothetical as well as real-world examples."

PRI reports briefly describe the case studies and summarise key findings from 40 workshop sessions.

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