Yale Endowment Justice Collective

demanding @yale divest from fossil fuels, military weapons, and other extractive & exploitative industries and invest instead in the city of New Haven

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔦 Yale Donated $1M to Friends of the IDF, Funding Soldiers Behind Gaza Atrocities

The Endowment Justice Collective (EJC) has revealed Yale University donated $1,000,000 to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in its 2024 tax filings – the largest such donation by any U.S. university. Yale Daily News cites a Yale spokesperson who confirmed that the “distribution” to FIDF was made in November 2023, one month after Israel launched its genocidal campaign. The money was funneled through a Yale donor-advised fund – a program where donors recommend grants but Yale must approve recipients.

➤ FIDF is a New York City-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that funds active-duty Israeli soldiers – committing genocide and other war crimes in Gaza – with cash, housing, and “adopt a brigade” programs. The EJC notes Yale had veto power but still approved the donation.

➤ The disclosure comes as Yale faces student pressure to divest from weapons makers. In 2024, 77% of undergrads voted for divestment, and in 2025 students filed a legal complaint with the Connecticut Attorney General, arguing Yale’s trustees breached fiduciary duty by permitting investment in arms companies.

➤ In response to the revelation, the Collective has launched a fundraiser for mutual aid in Gaza, supporting families in Khan Younis and Health Workers 4 Palestine.

Source: Endowment Justice Collective release (Sept. 19, 2025) — Instagram linked below

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

@Citi, @ValCookSmith - we demand transparency, accountability and action on climate, starting with an immediate end to the expansion of fossil fuel investments!

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

This morning, EJC organizers disrupted “Debating Globalization,” a class taught by Citi board member Ernesto Zedillo, to urge Citi to take action on climate and commit to ending its financing of fossil fuel expansion at their Annual General Meeting tomorrow!

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

Citi has pumped $285 billion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016 — utterly incompatible with the urgency of the climate crisis. Zedillo refused to engage us in dialogue, but we know that business can’t continue as usual in the face of planetary arson.

[FossilFree5 @FossilFree5]

By filing these complaints, we are asking our state attorney generals to investigate the legality of continued fossil fuel investments and compel our universities to divest.

@Yale, @Stanford, @MIT, @Princeton, & @VanderbiltU

It's time to divest. Now.

[grist @grist]

Today, students at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Vanderbilt launched a coordinated legal campaign to force their schools to divest from fossil fuels -- a move that could not only set new precedent for the 5 colleges, but all institutional investors. https://t.co/WOm71OJLeG

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

“We’re done waiting for our institutions to take the threat of climate change seriously. Action must come now.”

Check out this powerful op-Ed by our comrades at @DivestPrinceton about why we are asking our state AGs to investigate our university’s fossil fuel investments.

[The Nation @thenation]

Why We Filed a Legal Complaint Against Princeton https://t.co/jKpPBLJk8s

[Common Dreams @commondreams]

"We are calling on our attorneys general to compel our schools to do the right thing and divest," said an organizer with @FossilFree5, a coalition of students urging @MIT, @Princeton, @Stanford, @VanderbiltU & @Yale to stop investing in fossil fuels. https://t.co/YXYHSHVelH

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Students’ complaint argues it’s illegal for US universities to invest in fossil fuels https://t.co/FlngdXVEtS

[FossilFree5 @FossilFree5]

It’s time to divest. Now.

[FossilFree5 @FossilFree5]

BREAKING: Student divestment campaigns at Yale, Vanderbilt, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford file legal complaints with state Attorneys General, claiming that investing in fossil fuels violates the UPMIFA. Read more @washingtonpost.

https://t.co/rQyphGIigM

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

This morning, divestment campaigns at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Vanderbilt, and Stanford -— the Fossil Free 5 — filed legal complaints against fossil fuel investments. Join our fight by signing our complaint at https://t.co/wAysgh7O0L and visit https://t.co/soWyxadmuw to learn more.

[ilanabana @ilanabana]

📅Stay tuned for MAJOR #divestment news (breaking soon!) from @FossilFree5! 🟧Give them a follow for updates 👏 Plus, get a preview of what's to come 👇
https://t.co/zMCTLzs6LV

@DivestPrinceton @DivestStanford @YaleEJC @MitDivest & Dores Divest 🔥
#FossilFree 5⃣ #DivestInvest

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

Yale is a $42 billion hedge fund with a university attached. It’s long past time Yale aligned its billions behind its rhetoric. Divest from fossil fuels!

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

Yale invests $15 million over 30 decades to “chip away” at climate change, and hundreds of millions in the fossil fuel industry to finance climate change and profit from the destruction of the planet. https://t.co/kVRDp9NkXi

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

Let’s demand that Yale do better, together.

November 5, 2021
Garrett Frye-Mason and Lumisa Bista

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[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

Yale is not for humanity. If the University can have one of its most profitable years ever while the world is in crisis, Yale cannot be for humanity. 1/#

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

we ask you:

what does endowment justice look like?

what could and should the endowment be for?

what could and should Yale be for? 3/#