Investing for a Sustainable Future: A Campus conversation on Portfolio Management at UNH
Monday
February 11, 2013
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Huddleston Ballroom
Planning Meeting Agenda
Friday January 25 8:30 – 10:30 AM
8:30
Welcome and Background
 Increased attention, calls for divestment here and at other institutions, in fossil fuels, in gun
manufacturing, child labor, …
 A great time to have a campus conversation about this issue; NH Listens was asked by the
Discovery Program to help craft a dialogue.
 The University Dialogue on freedom and responsibility.
8:40
Introductions
 Your name
 Share a few roles and connections at UNH
 A brief description of how you connect to this issue…
9:00
Background and work of NH Listens
 A civic engagement initiative of the Carsey Institute
 Founded in 2011 to work locally, regionally and statewide to help communities solve problems
through engaged and informed conversations.
 These are our principles:
o Bring people together from all walks of life
o Provide time for in depth, informed conversations
o Respect differences as well as seek common ground
o Achieve outcomes that lead to informed community solutions
 A few examples of work on and off campus (including occupy and small, facilitated groups)
 Key element: The role of the planning group and agreement in advance that decision makers
will seriously consider the outcomes and recommendations.
Note:
 Following the event, a report will be compiled summarizing and representing the views and
recommendations from participants. This report will be shared broadly and sent directly to
President Huddleston and the UNH Foundation.
 President Huddleston and the UNH Foundation are committed to giving serious consideration to
these outcomes and responding in a timely way to the ideas and recommendations in the
report.
9:20
To be successful:
 Endorsement by decision makers
 Broad input and framing from multiple perspectives
 Outreach to get a mix of people in the room
 Time for a full conversation
 Identification of common ground and areas of divergence (not about reaching
consensus)
 Report Findings
 Follow up with decision makers to get response and action steps
The role of the planning group
 Frame the issue for fair and inclusive conversation
 Insure that all perspectives are acknowledged
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Provide helpful information: what should all participants know in order to be informed
in the conversation? (facts, trends, careful of bias and misinformation)
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Before we engage this group in framing the conversation and making sure all key questions and issues
are addressed, are there any questions about the process?
9:30
Brainstorm in groups of 3
 When we are talking about portfolio management and values based investments, what are the
key issues?
 Combine lists: Is anything missing?
Different Groups of 3
 What information should people have in order to assist in having a productive conversation? In
other words, what facts, trends, and background information should be provided in the
discussion guide?
 What sources of information do you trust?
10:00
Key Questions
Based on this information on the flip charts and white board, spend some time on your own crafting a
few key questions that should be asked. Questions guide the small groups through an exploration of the
topic and the issues. For example, after looking at the information section of the guide, we might ask
participants, “What do you notice? What stands out to you and is most important when you look at this
information?” When participants have explored the issues, one of our final questions might be, “What
are the key recommendations you want to give to President Huddleston?” or “What thoughts and ideas
do you most want to convey to the UNH foundation?”
10:25
Next Steps
 Need facts, trends, and background for the information section
 We will send out a draft discussion guide for your input/edits
 Spread the word and get folks to attend
 Do we change the date?