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Mission-based Endowment policies

  • 1.  Mission-based Endowment policies

    Posted 09-10-2019 08:31 AM
    Dear Colleagues,

    I'm looking for examples of museums that have endowment investment policies shaped by their museum's mission and values. This might take the form of:
    • Prohibiting investment in specific sectors that do not align with the museum's mission (e.g, tobacco, liquor)
    • General Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Criteria
    • Impact Investing--actively investing in companies that provide both a financial return and a demonstrable benefit to society
    Any information you can provide from you own institutions, or leads on who I might talk to would be most appreciated. Thank you!

    Yours from the future,

    Elizabeth



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    Elizabeth Merritt
    VP Strategic Foresight & Founding Director, CFM
    American Alliance of Museums
    Arlington VA
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