Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 31, 2023

That campaign, involving a coalition of youth organizing groups and other advocates, led the Los Angeles United School District board to divest $25 million from its $77 million LASPD budget and invest nearly $100 million into the Black Student Achievement Plan, which aims to keep Black and Brown students from entering the school-to-prison pipeline.

Divestment 98

Divestment Development 98

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House. Finding herself the only Black person in the student divestment group, everything clicked. "I

Waste 517

Waste Climate Change Supply Chains Supply Chain 517

Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. ” OERB has reportedly spent $40 million over the past two decades creating pro-industry curricula, speakers series, after-school programs, and teacher workshops. .

Divestment 62

Divestment Climate Change Stranded Assets Paris Agreement 62