Ready to talk to your school about putting its endowment to work for social justice? No need to reinvent the wheel—feel free to use these sample proposals written by students in the REC network. We recommend starting by looking at samples from schools with a similar size or character as your institution.

Please contact us if you’d like us to send you word files of these documents for easy cutting and pasting, or want to get feedback on your latest draft. We’d also love if you could add your completed proposal to the resource library.

Proposals to create a committee on investor responsibility

Columbia University

Duke University

Grinnell College

Hofstra University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Princeton University

Seattle University

University of Massachusetts, Boston

University of Pennsylvania

Community Investment Proposals

Fordham University (2011)

Seattle University (2010)

Columbia University (2007)

Mt. Holyoke College

Other Proposals

Proposal from a graduate student to start a committee on investor responsibility as his Master’s thesis: University of British Columbia

Proposal to divest from arms manufacturers: Wesleyan University

Draft proposal for committee transparency: Williams College