This framework will act as a guide to pre-emptively consider how a proposed program or project might be shaped by, impact upon, or meet the different needs of women, men, and gender diverse people.
In this report, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Criterion Institute have partnered to highlight the critical opportunities that child-lens investors can unlock by embedding a strong nutrition focus within their work.
Coralus' non-traditional approach to selection and allocation demonstrate how power can be shifted within investment approaches. Below, we identify six of these, with an evaluation of how they disrupt traditional power dynamics.
Our mission is to broaden what matters in our economic decisions by expanding who has power and influence in the work of reinventing the economy.
This overview of a recent Criterion report provides guidance about the power dynamics that underlie field-building.
Criterion is developing over 200 Standards of Practice. This short set on Translation represents ways investors can shift how gender expertise is valued within certain financial processes, structures, and analyses.
Not every congregation will have the same access to capital, the same financial savvy, or the same investment goals. Congregations will be drawn to a range of mission priorities. We have identified ten areas of social concern that are relevant cultural and social issues, and influenced by economic structures.
Criterion Institute is making a long-term commitment to addressing gender-based violence, directing one third of our resources over the next five years toward re-imagining possibilities for using finance as a tool to effect change on this critical issue.
Since our founding, we have partnered with churches because they inspire a large number of people to imagine greater possibilities.
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us demonstrate our theory of change and ultimately achieve our mission. Learn more about how you can become more engaged in our work.
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