The phrase "divest for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to rid oneself of something, often referring to selling or giving away shares or assets. Example: "The company decided to divest for better long-term growth opportunities."
Divest for our Future, 350.org's divestment website, recommends "environmentally and socially responsible funds".
At the international divestment conference, the European Green party, the Greens/European Free Alliance and 350.org launched the Divest for Paris challenge to encourage organisations to join the rapidly growing fossil fuel divestment movement.
Among the groups joining the Fight for $15 activists was Columbia Divest for Social Justice group.
The cover art references another article arguing against Princeton University divesting from apartheid South Africa, though many students had pressured the institution to divest for decades.
Speaking at the debate, Omi said it was up to individual investors to start lobbying pension fund providers, "we literally can't divest for you unless you tell us to".
"While social media is great for amplifying their message, the success for the Tufts Divest for Our Future group mostly hinges on 'old-school' methods, such as word of mouth and in-person meetings,"' he said.
Students protested for months to get Columbia to divest from for-profit prisons, citing alleged violence and human rights abuses.
NEW YORK -- Columbia University trustees voted Monday to divest from for-profit prison companies because of concerns about mass incarceration, becoming the first major university to do so.
While he has profited handsomely from living dangerously, pray do not infer that Mr. Lagerfeld would think of collecting or divesting for so base a motive as lucre.
But fossil fuel investments have been branded a "stranded asset" risk by the governor of the Bank of England, and the shadow climate change minister, Barry Gardiner, praised local councils that had divested for showing leadership.
These investments can become profitable investments, after these companies are either bought out or become publicly traded companies, and can be divested for profits.
