Our webinars, hosted here through Voicethread, can allow you and others to visually take in information on subjects like researching your endowment or community investment, while having one of our knowledgable staff members, friends, or allies talk you through what you're seeing. You can check out our webinars on your own, or as part of a club meeting to educate a bunch of folks at once! (Students say they go great with ice cream).

These webinars are posted roughly from most the basic to most advanced—we suggest starting with Responsible Investment 101, and working your way up from there.

Responsible Investment 101 (runtime: 19 minutes)
with REC Founder and Former Executive Director Morgan Simon
An introduction to the tools of responsible investment, a short history of how responsible investment came about, and why it matters, particularly in higher ed. This webinar will help you get an overall idea of what could happen on your campus and how to start.

Community Investment
with REC Executive Director Dan Apfel
Learn how your school could put real money into low-income communities in its own backyard or around the world.

Endowment Management
with REC Founder and Former Executive Director Morgan Simon
Learn what an endowment is, how it’s managed and why this matters if you care about social and environmental justice.

Researching Your Endowment (runtime: 10 minutes 30 seconds)
with REC friend and conference presenter Aaron Podolny, Yale '12
Aaron talks us through the different asset classes in a college or university endowment. He uses a tax form called the IRS form 990 to show cash assets, highest paid consultants, and other holdings, while the SEC EDGAR database shows us what large school's fund managers are investing in.

How to Research Your Endowment
with REC Founder and Former Executive Director Morgan Simon
Ever wondered just where all those dollars are sitting? In Sudan, Burma, Chevron or Shell? This webinar will show you show handy tricks to find out where your school has been keeping its money.