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Mission-Aligned Investing

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund celebrates the tenth anniversary of our decision to divest from fossil fuels, announced September 22, 2014, on the eve of the historic People’s Climate March in New York.

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Mission-Aligned Investing

A statement from leading impact investing foundations on the defections of several major financial institutions from Climate Action 100+

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Mission-Aligned Investing

Together with the RBF Investment Committee and our OCIO, Agility, we shared the first  assessment of our ESG and impact managers in 2018 and provided updates in 2021. In 2023, we expanded our efforts to measure the nonfinancial returns of ESG and impact investment portfolios. 

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Mission-Aligned Investing

The Fund proactively seeks to integrate ESG criteria into investment processes as part of our Mission-Aligned Investing strategy, which expects all investments to meet market-rate return and risk attributes.

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Mission-Aligned Investing

The RBF is committed to reducing emissions from our investment portfolio to align with climate goals long supported by our grantmaking.

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Mission-Aligned Investing

A new report, 'Mission-Aligned Investing: How We Assess Our Progress,' focuses on impact and ESG investing and active ownership.

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Mission-Aligned Investing

Persistent action by Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard and others paid off in September 2021 with the university’s historic announcement to divest.

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In The Media
Sustainable Development
Mission-Aligned Investing

A new anthology tells the stories of impact investors and entrepreneurs, climate litigants, frontline defenders, and environmental advocates and activists who have opened pathways to a more sustainable development path.

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Culpeper Arts & Culture
Mission-Aligned Investing

Upstart Co-Lab's The Guide: what cultural institutions need to know about investing for values and mission describes how impact investing can help cultural organizations multiply their impact and invest in the creative economy.

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Mission-Aligned Investing

The journey we have taken to deploy our endowment investments for greater sustainability has led us to a broader realization that the impact of our institutional decisions and practices can bolster and extend the social change efforts of our grantees.

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