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A large crowd marches down a tree-lined street. Various people are holding vertical banners above the height of the crowd, and a few people at the front of the march are holding a large horizontal banner that says "Invest in our communities."

Connecting the dots between climate destruction and its financial backers

Waging Nonviolence
September 19, 2024.

Quakers and environmental activists hold a prayer service outside The Vanguard Group’s headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Their protest signs urge the company to stop investing in fossil fuels.

Your Retirement Investments Are Probably Fueling Climate Change

Reveal
September 14, 2024.

A crowd of people march down a tree-lined street. Many people are holding banners, including a large red banner with white text in the front that says "Invest in our communities."

Earth Quaker Action Team Promotes Citizen Rally for a Clean Future

Dawn Kane Writes
August 8, 2024.

A crowd of people march down a tree-lined street. Many people are holding banners, including a large red banner with white text in the front that says "Invest in our communities."

Quakers March to Urge Vanguard to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Friends Journal
July 31, 2024.

A person in a white shirt holds up two signs that say "Stop funding fossil fuels"

Citigroup continues to fund climate-killing fossil fuels, sparking more protests

Red Green and Blue
July 31, 2024.

A person is escorted by two police officers away from a glass building and past a line of other people

Interfaith activists arrested protesting Citigroup’s fossil fuel investments

National Catholic Reporter
July 30, 2024.

Faith Leaders and Climate Activists Shut Down Access to Citibank Headquarters

Yahoo News
July 30, 2024.

A person in a white shirt holds up two signs that say "Stop funding fossil fuels"

Faith Leaders Chain Themselves to Citi HQ to Protest Fossil Fuel Financing

Common Dreams
July 30, 2024.

Numerous people stand and sit on a city sidewalk, surrounded by tall buildings. Some people are holding large banners, including one that says Wells Fargo earns while the world burns."

Seniors protest Wells Fargo’s investment in fossil fuels outside Center City branch

Philly Voice
July 10, 2024.

A crowd of people march down a tree-lined street. Many people are holding banners, including a large red banner with white text in the front that says "Invest in our communities."

EQAT Tells Vanguard to Stop Investing in Climate Destruction

Bucks County Beacon
July 9, 2024.

A large tree, looking up from the base of the trunk

How contemplation is making me a better climate activist

National Catholic Reporter
May 16, 2024.

Blue, white, and orange graphic that says "Craft of Campaigns by Training for Change with Ingrid Lakey Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT)"

Taking on the country’s 6th-largest bank and changing the activist culture on climate change

Craft of Campaigns
May 14, 2024.

A person wearing a black shirt looks at the camera and smiles. Behind them is a wooden fence and many trees.

What is Your Climate Change Role?

Citizens’ Climate Radio
March 21, 2024.

Half a dozen people sit outside, with their eyes closed and/or heads bowed

Earth Justice Worship

Western Friend
March 15, 2024.

People sit in two rows of wooden folding chairs outside, with their eyes closed or heads bowed. Laying in front of them in the grass are red fabric banners with white text.

I prayed with Quakers to urge Vanguard to invest more responsibly

National Catholic Reporter
March 11, 2024.

LTE: Vanguard’s climate record undermines Brown’s new ESG retirement fund

Brown Daily Herald
March 10, 2024.

Quaker Group Targets Vanguard’s Offices in Climate Campaign

Ignites
March 8, 2024.

Inside a Vanguard office lobby, two people hold white signs with red text while another person hands a letter to a receptionist who is pointing.

Investing in Uncertainty

Bucks County Beacon
March 8, 2024.

A person in a brown blazer and black pants holds a microphone in one hand and papers in the other and speaks to a crowd of people looking at them

Peco may be forced to pick between fossil fuels or renewable energy before its latest plan expires in 2025

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 5, 2024.

Student boycott of Vanguard highlights recruitment pressure on corporates over ESG

Sustainable Views
February 27, 2024.

Outside, there's a table with a large red banner draped across it. The banner says "Vanguard invests in climate destruction." Three people are standing behind the table and one person is standing in front of it, facing the others.

Pledging Never: To Vanguard and Climate Destruction

Swarthmore Voices
February 26, 2024.

Outside on a cloudy day, three people stand behind a table, draped with a large red banner with white text that says "Vanguard invests in climate destruction"

Tri-Co Students Protest Vanguard at Career Fair

The Bi-College News
February 15, 2024.

Nine people in colorful animal costumes stand in the middle of a street and pose for the photo

Mummers And Climate Activists Protest At Vanguard CEO’s Radnor Home

Patch
January 16, 2024.

Over a dozen people stand outside with signs and a large red banner that says "we're moving our money and building a movement

Quaker Group Offers Nonviolent Direct Action Training For Activists

Bucks County Beacon
January 16, 2024.

A crowd of people standing outside on grass along the side of a street. Many people are holding red signs and banners.

Mummers Joining Environmental Activists To Protest Vanguard In Wayne

Patch
January 12, 2024.

Dark blue background with a cartoon image of the earth and white text that says "Planet Philadelphia; Environmental radio show"

Making Change Happen: Sharing climate facts & visions

Planet Philadelphia
January 5, 2024.

Silhouetted against orange, hazy air, a person stands and looks towards a bridge

Here are WHYY News’ top climate stories of 2023

WHYY
December 22, 2023

About two dozen people sit on chairs in two rows outside. Those in the first row hold a large red banner with white text that says "Vanguard invests in climate destruction."

Quakers Protest In Silence Hoping Vanguard Will Hear Their Calls To Invest In A Sustainable, Livable Future

Bucks County Beacon
December 1, 2023.

Illustration of a colorful globe with birds flying above, and above them, blue and green text that says "climate changed"

What is Mine to Do?

Climate Changed
November 28, 2023.

Grainy screenshot of a group of people sitting in chairs on grass outside. In front of them is a large red banner with white text.

Climate Activists Pray At Protest At Vanguard In Malvern

Patch
November 15, 2023.

A large crowd of people standing outside, singing. Two people in the foreground are holding a red banner with white text that says "Vanguard stop investing in climate destruction."

EQAT Holds Prayer Action To Urge Vanguard To Transition Toward Sustainable Investment Practices

Bucks County Beacon
November 14, 2023

A crowd of people standing outside on grass along the side of a street. Many people are holding red signs and banners.

Activists Plan Protest At Vanguard In Malvern

Patch
November 13, 2023

A large industrial complex with four smokestacks along a tree-lined river, with an autumnal landscape stretching off to the horizon

LTE: Vanguard’s ‘Bogleheads’ Are Ignoring the Future

Washington Post
November 1, 2023

Two people with Roman collars are inside, standing on chairs and holding a banner that says "Vanguard Stop Funding Fossil Fuels!" Behind them is a person sitting in a chair on a stage and a large screen showing photos and names of presenters.

Clergy to Vanguard: Stop Funding Fossil Fuels!

Common Dreams
October 27, 2023

A person stands outside, in front of maybe 8 people holding a large banner, speaks into a microphone and holds up a brown ceramic bird

EQAT: “Vanguard, Don’t Rob Our Future!”

Voices
October 13, 2023

Crowd of people in a protest; in the center, there is a person holding up a white sign with colorful text that says "planet over profit"

How radical should you be when you’re trying to save the planet?

Vox
September 28, 2023

Interview with Lina Blount, Vanguard S.O.S. Campaign

XRNOW!
September 16, 2023

This Grandparents’ Day, Elders Are Protesting Vanguard For Their Children And Grandchildren’s Futures

Bucks County Beacon
September 14, 2023

LTE: Customer dissatisfaction

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 13, 2023

LTE: Invest green

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 7, 2023

EQAT activist at Vanguard Walk Day 1 on 1 / 4 / 18

Philadelphia Quakers Want You to Help Them Dent the Fossil Fuel Money Pipeline

Common Dreams
August 26, 2023

Young Friends for a Fossil-Free Future

BeFriending Creation
August 22, 2023

Philadelphia Interfaith Group Pushes for More Solar and Wind Power Contracts from PECO

World-Energy
July 25, 2023

Interfaith group uses moral suasion to advance solar power for Philadelphia

PV Magazine
July 24, 2023

Proposed Pipeline Expansion Could Upend Three States’ Climate Plans

DeSmog
July 20, 2023

Energy Company Plotted Gas Plant in Small Pennsylvania Town – But No One Told Residents

The Intercept
July 17, 2023

Never Vanguard: Taking Action Against Fossil Fuel Investing

Williamette Wake Up
July 5, 2023

Bucks County Residents Participate In ‘Never Vanguard’ Launch

Bucks County Beacon
July 5, 2023

Quakers divesting $17 million from Vanguard over climate change

InvestmentNews
June 12, 2023

Quakers tell Vanguard that time for “business as usual” is over

Grid
June 7, 2023

How climate activists are working to shift trillions of dollars away from fossil fuels and into renewables

WHYY
June 5, 2023

Morning Edition segment about campaigns pressuring Vanguard and TIAA

WHYY
June 1, 2023

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