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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A Blueprint for Faith-Based Organizations on using Finance as a Tool for Social Change
The Blueprint is a document about social change, written for change makers. The focus of this Blueprint is to...
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Translation at the intersection of gender and finance: Recommendations for improving analysis in gender lens investing
Gender lens investing has become increasingly dominant within sustainable and impact investment approaches in Australia and globally over...
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Translation Between Gender and Finance
The success of the field of gender lens investing is dependent on the elevation of translators and translation: individuals,...
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Disrupting Fields: Addressing Power Dynamics in the Fields of Climate Finance and Gender Lens Investing
In the world, there is a small, but mighty, cadre of people working to innovate in finance. They may...
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How to Engage Finance to Enable Survivors of Violence to Build Economic and Financial Freedom
How to Engage Finance to Enable Survivors of Violence to Build Economic and Financial Freedom By Tia Subramanian and...
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A Framework for Screening Portfolios for Risks Posed by Gender-Based Violence
Criterion Institute, in partnership with Christian Super, has developed a framework for how gender-based violence poses an investment risk—and...
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Q&A with Gender Equality & Social Inclusion Specialist, Amy Haddad: Analyzing Power and Opportunities for Influence
In this issue of Criterion Connections, Erin Puglia, Project Manager of the Power of Policy Program at the Criterion...
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10 Points Why Gender is Material to Investments in the Recovery
A new report identifies 10 economic patterns related to gender and demonstrates how they are material to investors making...
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October Highlights from the Power of Policy Program
OCTOBER 2020 Partnering with SheEO to Advance Process Metrics Building on a collaboration between Criterion Institute and SheEO in...
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Mitigating the Risks of Gender-Based Violence: A Due Diligence Guide for Australian Investors
Criterion Institute has created a guide for Australia-based investors to understand the risk their investments are exposed to as...
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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Events
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Convergence XVIII: Financing the Reduction of Gender-based Violence
For the past three years, the Criterion Institute has been in deep collaboration with experts in finance, policymaking and...
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Your invitation to move ideas to action: Convergence, our reimagined digital conference.
For the past two years, Criterion Institute has been in collaboration with old and new friends about how we can use finance to address gender-based...
