As we all patiently wait for the November 3rd election results, we'd like to share with you the following articles and remind you of our upcoming webinar on concrete ways to apply best practices in impact measurement to endowment portfolios. Learn more and register here.

We’d like to thank everyone who made time in their demanding schedules to take part in this week’s webinar about how World Education Services partnered with TIFF to find investment strategies that reflect WES’s mission and address today's biggest challenges. For those who couldn’t make it, we’ve made the recording available for you to watch at a later time here.

In this week’s news, Illinois State Treasurer called on Russell 3000 companies to disclose their board diversity data, and Yale’s Chief Investment Officer publicly instructed the firms who manage the University’s endowment to diversify their ranks or risk Yale pulling its money from them. Has your organization taken new steps on diversity, equity, and inclusion that you’d like to share with the network?

We hope you enjoyed our updated website with its refreshed network's focus areas and were able to smoothly navigate through our new round-up format last week. Please send us any reactions!

In this week’s news, we’d like to remind you to join our upcoming webinar on October 29 to learn how responsible businesses and investors can rise to the demands of our time, hone their competitive edge, and position themselves for continued success in an unpredictable future. Register here.

We are thrilled to announce that we’ve updated our website to reflect our updated strategic plan, with deeper content on the network's focus areas and specific social equity and climate goals for intentional endowments and invite you to enjoy our new round up format as we strive to make the content you expect even easier to navigate.

We equally present to you our recently published case study, Warren Wilson College: Active Ownership in the Endowment, that describes a path all endowments can follow to exercise their ownership stake to ensure that companies are adequately addressing ESG risks and opportunities.

We are pleased to announce that IEN has joined the pledge to support an increase in voter participation in our upcoming elections by making Nov. 3rd a paid holiday ensuring employees will have a work schedule that allows them time to vote. 

In this week’s news, we would like to remind you that Reuters’ ESG Investment North America 2020 virtual event of October 13th -14th is still open for registration. Join the conversation to unlock the tools and expertise required to effectively integrate ESG and deliver sustainable and above market investment returns.

As the 2020 election approaches, take a look at this toolkit for college campuses to support your community to vote by mail, and businesses and investors can join this pledge to support an increase in voter participation in our country's elections.

This week, we're sharing exciting news of a major endowment committing to achieve net-zero emissions from all its investments by 2030, and a report by CFA Institute on climate change analysis and how to integrate climate change into the investment processes. 

We equally invite you to join our upcoming Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance webinar where our speakers will speak on their individual institution’s experience and efforts to achieve net-zero carbon portfolios.

As the 2020 election approaches, take a look at this toolkit for college campuses to support your community to vote by mail, and businesses and investors can join this pledge to support an increase in voter participation in our country's elections.

The year's Climate Week has looked different than in the past; this week has also been full of mourning - for Breonna Taylor, for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for the over 200,000 Americans who are among our global losses to the Covid pandemic. 

As the 2020 election approaches, take a look at this toolkit for college campuses to support your community to vote by mail, and this toolkit for businesses and investors to support a safe and accessible election.

As a network, we congratulate the seven IEN members among 30 schools that made the 2021 Princeton Review's Green College Honor Roll by receiving a score of 99 (the highest possible score) in the Green Rating tallies. In this week’s news, USSIF released a Policy Action Toolkit on the new Department of Labor rule on proxy voting by fiduciaries of ERISA-governed retirement plans, outlining how to submit a comment letter online and share concerns with your respective members of Congress by October 5. 

As the 2020 election approaches, take a look at this toolkit for college campuses to support your community to vote by mail, and this toolkit for businesses and investors to support a safe and accessible election.

Sorelle Ngatchou (She/Her)

Community Engagement Manager

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