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Divestment movement articles:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/08/fossil-fuel-divestment-a-brief-history

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/fossil-fuel-divestment/

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/does-divestment-work

http://justandstable.org/ Students for a Just and Stable Future

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http://gofossilfree.org/commitments/ College of the Atlantic

Cities

Counties

San Francisco, CA Dane County, WI

Religious Institutions

United Church of Christ – National Massachusetts United Church of Christ Minnesota United Church of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Oregon First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, UT First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, MA Portsmouth South Church Unitarian First Unitarian Church of Pittsfield, ME First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, WI First Presbyterian Palo Alto, CA Uniting Church, New South Wales & ACT, Australia <a href="http://www.quakerearthcare.org/article/dover-friends-meeting-epistle-divestment">Dover Friends Meeting, Dover, NH</a> Melbourne Unitarian Church, Australia Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst, MA Anglican Diocese of Wellington, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Waiapu, New Zealand Anglican Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, New Zealand Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia <a href="http://350.org.au/blog/perth-anglicans-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/">Anglican Diocese of Perth, Australia</a> <a href="http://350.org.au/blog/canberra-diocese-joins-perth-anglicans-in-divesting-from-fossil-fuels/">Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia</a> <a href="http://350.org.au/blog/melbourne-anglicans-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/">Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Australia</a> <a href="http://350.org.au/blog/anglican-national-super-divests-from-fossil-fuels/">Anglican National Super, Australia</a> <a href="http://brightnow.org.uk/news/fossil-fuels-says-brighthelm-church/">Brighthelm Church, Brighton, UK</a> <a href="http://societyforcommunitywork.org/scw19.html">Society for Community Work</a> <a href="http://www.diomass.org/diocesan-news/diocesan-convention-takes-action-climate-change-and-antiviolence-campaign">Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, MA</a> <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/maine-council-of-churches-establishes-fossil-free-investment-policy/">Maine Council of Churches, ME</a> Trinity St. Paul’s United Church, Toronto, Canada <a href="http://www.quaker.org.uk/news/quakers-disinvest-fossil-fuels">Quakers in Britain</a> <a href="http://www.diakonia.se/en/">Diakonia, Sweden</a> <a href="http://www.coloradoratnashri.net/">Colorado Ratnashri Sangha</a> First Unitarian Church, Ottawa <a href="http://350.org/press-release/union-theological-seminary-in-nyc-votes-unanimously-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/">Union Theological Seminary, New York City</a> <a href="http://350ma.org/2014/05/first-religious-society-of-newburyport-votes-to-divest/">First Religious Society of Newburyport, MA</a> <a href="http://350ma.org/2014/05/more-divestment-unitarian-society-of-northampton-and-florence/">Unitarian Society of Northampton & Florence, MA</a> <a href="http://www.uua.org/news/pressroom/pressreleases/296102.shtml">Unitarian Universalist Association</a> Central Philadelphia Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Lansdowne Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Westtown Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Lehigh Valley Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Old Haverford Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Newtown Monthly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA Haverford Quarterly Quaker Meeting, PA, USA <a href="http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2014/07/18/first-church-uu-divesting-from-fossil-fuels/">Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist</a>, NY, USA <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/world-council-of-churches-endorses-fossil-fuel-divestment-and-encourages-its-members-to-do-the-same/">World Council of Churches</a> Community Friends, OH, USA <a href="http://assembly.uca.org.au/news/item/1585-assembly-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels">Uniting Church in Australia Assembly,</a> Australia <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/09/News-Release-FSM-Divesting-from-fossil-fuels-9.2.2014.pdf">Franciscan Sisters of Mary,</a> MO, USA <a href="http://buff.ly/1wj5cRj">Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts,</a> MA, USA <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/se/2014/09/23/church-of-sweden-fossil-free/">Church of Sweden</a> Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County (UUCSC), RI, USA First Unitarian Church of Portland, OR, USA Mountain Vista Unitarian Universalist Congregation, AZ, USA <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/pittsfield-me-unitarian-universalists-put-their-money-where-their-faith-is/">First Universalist Church of Pittsfield, ME, USA</a> Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, NM, USA Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, CA, USA <a href="http://uucorvallis.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Fossil-Fuel-Divestment-Resolution-and-Press-Release-May-2014.pdf">UU Fellowship of Corvallis, OR, USA</a> Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames, IA, USA Lake County Unitarian Universalist Church, WI, USA First Parish (Old Ship Church), MA, USA All Souls UU Church, MA, USA Unity Temple UU Congregation, IL, USA First Parish Church UU, MA, USA <a href="https://divestfossilfuels.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/public-witness-on-climate-change-charlottesville.pdf">Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church, VA, USA</a> <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/oxford-diocese-goes-fossil-free-and-challenges-church-of-england-to-divest-2/">Church of England Diocese of Oxford, United Kingdom</a>

Foundations

<a href="http://divestinvest.org/philanthropy/">Divest-Invest Philanthropic Group</a> Sierra Club Foundation Wallace Global Fund Jubitz Family Foundation The Educational Foundation of America Park Foundation The Russell Family Foundation Compton Foundation KL Felicitas Foundation The Chorus Foundation Singing Field Foundation Nia Community Foundation The John Merck Fund The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Solidago Foundation Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Granary Foundation The Schmidt Family Foundation Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Pax Fund <a href="http://www.divestfossilfuels.org.au/#%21take-the-pledge/c1t44">Ross Knowles Fund</a> <a href="http://www.divestfossilfuels.org.au/#%21take-the-pledge/c1t44">Madden Sainsbury Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.divestfossilfuels.org.au/#%21take-the-pledge/c1t44">Earth Welfare Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.divestfossilfuels.org.au/#%21take-the-pledge/c1t44">McKinnon Family Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.divestfossilfuels.org.au/#%21take-the-pledge/c1t44">The Hunt Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.divestfossilfuels.org.au/#%21take-the-pledge/c1t44">Pace Foundation</a> <a href="http://www.divestfossilfuels.org.au/#%21take-the-pledge/c1t44">Mullum Trust</a> <a href="http://www.nsrcfund.org/">NSRC Fund</a> <a href="http://switzernetwork.org/leadership/investing-our-future-taking-stand-fossil-fuels">Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation</a>

Other Institutions

Conservation Breeding Specialist Group Santa Fe Art Institute New Progressive Alliance <a href="http://www.canadians.org/">Council of Canadians</a> <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/santa-clara-water-district-divests/">Santa Clara Valley Water District</a> <a href="http://divestmcgill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/SSMU-Action-Plan-Motion-Regarding-a-Greener-McGill.pdf">Students’ Society of McGill University (pdf)</a> <a href="http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=52&SubSectionID=78&ArticleID=32876">Island Institute, Maine, US</a> <a href="http://gofossilfree.org/uk-doctors-end-investments-in-fossil-fuel-industry/">British Medical Association</a> <a href="http://oeconline.org/impact-investing-and-the-oec-endowment-fund/">Oregon Environmental Council</a>