We invite you to explore the insights and ideas we’re developing, resources and tools we’ve created, media where our work has been amplified, and upcoming events we will be hosting or attending.
Resources
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Process Metrics that Analyze Power Dynamics in Investing
Process metrics are indicators that allow an examination of progress on gender or social equity overall. They allow thinking...
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Investing with an LGBTQI Lens: Rethinking Gender Analysis Across Investing Fields
Criterion Institute, with the generous support of Dreilinden, has released “Investing with an LGBTQI Lens: Rethinking Gender Analysis Across...
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Economic RecovHERy: Designing An Inclusive Marketplace in a post-COVID World
As COVID-19 has laid bare the inequities that have long plagued our nation’s economy, it is no surprise that...
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Expanding Our Financial Imagination in Times of Crisis
The Tipping Point Our world has been turned upside down. In a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the...
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Recovery Investing to Reimagine the Gender-Based Violence Pandemic
By Catherine Poulton, UNICEF, and Tia Subramanian, Criterion Institute Criterion Institute and UNICEF have partnered to create a due diligence tool for investors to...
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Learning Group for Leaders Discovering God’s Economy
Entrenched systems of power, including financial systems, tip the scales in ways that perpetuate inequality and deny many the...
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The material risks of gender-based violence in emergency settings
Finance is one of the most powerful systems on earth. This opportunity brief from UNICEF and Criterion Institute...
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Civil Society and Impact Investing Brief
Civil society plays a crucial role in bridging gaps between systems of finance and social impacts. Traditionally, civil society...
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Milwaukee Methodists Motivated by 1K Churches
Solomon Community Temple United Methodist Church is a small black congregation that sits amid Milwaukee’s north side. What Solomon...
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Why not just make it a gift?
Congregations considering the 1K Churches Bible study and micro-lending program often ask: “Why not just make it a gift?”...
News
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Reflection: Making Gender-Based Violence Material to the World of Finance
“But I’m not sure how that’s truly material.” This is a refrain we hear constantly when we talk to...
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Growing the Field: Finance and gender experts brought together in Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia, 2 February 2018 – Over 70 investors, business and finance leaders, and gender experts from Southeast Asia came...
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Reflection: Gender Lens Investing Field-Building Event in Jakarta
This re-cap of the gender lens investing field-building event hosted in February by Investing in Women partners was contributed...
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Reflection: Finance as a Tool to Address Gender-Based Violence Workshop, January 22-23, 2018
This was contributed by Nina Weissberg. Nina Weissberg, CEO of Weissberg Investment Corp (WIC), guides a diverse portfolio of long-term real...
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Congregational Stories: Lending, Learning, Leading
More than two years ago, The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) in Ruxton, Maryland, launched its Micro-Lending Program....
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Audio: Interviews on Gender Lens Investing and Public Equities
As part of our ongoing sponsored research project into gender lens investing and public equities, we interviewed two of...
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Video: Why Develop an Investment Thesis?
Criterion Institute’s Joy Anderson, Pacific RISE impact investing lead, shares why Pacific RISE is developing an investment thesis.
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Video: Pacific RISE and Gender Lens Investing
Pacific RISE will use gender lens investing to incorporate gender into financial analysis to improve investments and promote equitable...
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Three gender-lens investing truths we learned developing an impact strategy in the Pacific
This article by Criterion founder Joy Anderson shares some early lessons learned from developing an investment thesis for the...
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SOCAP 2016 and Gender: Something’s Gotta Give (ImpactAlpha)
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