Mark Orlowski

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• http://www.endowmentinstitute.org/mark_orlowski_bio.html

Overview

Mark Orlowski is Founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Endowments Institute, a Cambridge-based nonprofit organization engaged in research and education to advance sustainability in campus operations and endowment practices. Mr. Orlowski heads a team that authors the Institute’s annual College Sustainability Report Card, which evaluates and grades key elements of sustainability at United States and Canadian universities. The Report Card is designed to help schools learn from each other's experiences and adapt campus and endowment sustainability policies that work. Since the Institute’s founding as a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in 2005, Mr. Orlowski has spoken at more than 75 colleges in 30 states and at dozens conferences including the National Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit and the Meeting of the Ohio Business Deans. He has also worked with students, faculty, administrators and trustees at numerous schools on a range of sustainability initiatives. As a member of the board of managers overseeing investments for New England Quaker Meetings, Mr. Orlowski is familiar with fiduciary responsibilities of endowment trustees. He also serves on the board of Proxy Democracy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing accessible proxy information. Mr. Orlowski is an Advisor to the Campus Greening Initiative of Net Impact, a San Francisco-based global membership organization of MBAs, graduate students and business professionals committed to corporate social responsibility. A graduate of Williams College, Mr. Orlowski served on the college’s Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and chaired its Campus Environmental Advisory Committee. He also received an associate's degree from Berkshire Community College and earned a master's degree at Harvard University, where he studied nonprofit management.