Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.93
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2014
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
PAE-16: Committee on Investor Responsibility

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 2.00 Victoria Rosen
Sustainability Communications & Marketing Manager
University Relations
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Does the institution have a committee on investor responsibility or similar body that meets the criteria for this credit?:
No

The charter or mission statement of the CIR or other body, which reflects social and environmental concerns, or a brief description of how the CIR is tasked to address social and environmental concerns :

Currently the formation of this committee is in the preliminary stages but with a formal commitment made on the part of the UMass Foundation via official letter drafted by Executive Vice President of the University of Massachusetts Foundation, Charles Pagnam by request of UMass President Caret.


Members of the CIR, including affiliations:

TBD, see above.


Recent examples (within the past 3 years) of CIR actions:
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The website URL where information about the committee is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The UMass Foundation has committed to creating this committee via an official letter submitted in fall 2013 to the UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign, a student group on the UMass Amherst campus that originally contacted the Foundation in regards to this issue in the 2012 spring semester.


The UMass Foundation has committed to creating this committee via an official letter submitted in fall 2013 to the UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign, a student group on the UMass Amherst campus that originally contacted the Foundation in regards to this issue in the 2012 spring semester.

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