While we want current students to lead this effort -- it’s important to cultivate a new generation of student climate leaders -- alumni can play a key role as well.

Here are some great ways that you can help jumpstart your school's divestment campaign:

1. Sign Up

Find your alma mater's divestment campaign here and sign their petition. That will allow campus organizers to contact you with campaign updates or when they need alumni support at key moments in their campaign. If your alma mater does not have an active divestment campaign, sign up on this page for general campaign updates and we'll put student campaigners in touch with you once they get a campaign up and going.

2. Write a letter to your alma mater

As you know from all the fundraising letters you’ve probably received, your college is interested in your “input.” Sending a personal letter to the college President or Board of Trustees urging the school to divest is a great first step to help put the issue on the map for the administration.

Click here for a template letter to your school's President or Board. (.docx)

For additional resources, letter templates, and talking points, check out our resources section.

2. Write a letter or oped for your campus newspaper

We want to spark an open discussion on campuses across the country about the morality of investing in fossil fuel companies. You can play a key role in that debate by publishing a letter or oped in your former college’s newspaper.

We don’t have a directory of all the papers, but with a quick Google search, you should be able to find your campus paper and an email or form to submit a letter or oped.

Click here for sample letters to the editor, tips on writing an op-ed, and talking points about fossil fuel divestment.

4. Start a divestment Facebook page for alumni of your alma mater

Remember to share whatever you do with your friends online. Facebook makes it easy to track down old college friends; let them know what you’re up to and encourage them to join the campaign. A Facebook page or group can be a great way to connect people and keep them updated. Here's a great example page that some Middlebury alums put together.