C-SocPhil co-hosts “Critical Issues in Responsible Endowment Management” at Wharton
C-SocPhil director Joshua Humphreys leads panel on going “beyond proxy voting”
PHILADELPHIA — The Center for Social Philanthropy at Tellus Institute joined the Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC), Sustainable Endowments Institute, and Columbia University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing in co-hosting a special full-day workshop today at REC’s 6th annual conference, which took place at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Approximately 50 participants from dozens of schools across the country, including Bard, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Dickinson, Harvard, Haverford, Middlebury, NYU, Penn, Seattle, Stanford, Swarthmore, University of Vermont, Vassar, and Villanova, among others, participated in the event. The workshop involved panels devoted to emerging best practices in proxy voting, transparency and tools, and to strategies “beyond proxy voting,” such as incorporating environmental, social and governance issues into portfolio management, filing shareholder resolutions, and community investing.
In addition to students, alumni, faculty and finance staff members from schools, participants included representatives from Domini Social Investments, RiskMetrics Group, Sustainable Investments Institute (si2), TIAA-CREF, and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.
