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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Investing in the Future of Children: A Field Building Report
Child lens investing is an emerging field that intentionally integrates considerations of child rights and wellbeing into investment...
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Fostering a Feminist Financial Imagination
A feminist financial imagination is a solutions-oriented mindset that facilitates the formation of new ideas, visioning of alternate...
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Addressing Power Dynamics in Investment Processes
The Criterion Institute worked with Capital 4 Development (C4D) Partners to examine their approach to investment processes for...
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Roadmap for Development Finance Institutions: Strategies to Address Gender-based Violence
This Roadmap lays out strategies for development finance institutions (DFIs) to incorporate gender-based violence (GBV) risk assessment and mitigation...
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Gender-Based Violence Risk Score
This innovative GBV Risk Score methodology and tool, created in partnership with Equilo and with support from UNICEF, enables...
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Evolving the gender analysis in gender lens investing: moving from counting women to valuing gendered experience
By Tia Subramanian, Arianna Muirow & Joy Anderson Published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment Volume 12,...
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The Framing Makes the Field – How we research gender lens investing matters
The Framing Makes the Field – How we research gender lens investing matters By Arianna Muirow Observing the...
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A Roadmap for Private Investors: Investing to Address Gender-based Violence
By Joy Anderson, President and Founder of Criterion Institute and Teresa Wells, Managing Director and Partner at Tiedemann...
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Roadmap for Christian Denominations to Use Finance to Reduce Gender-based Violence
Over the last few decades, there have been significant innovations in faith-based investing. However, social investment strategies by Christian...
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Gender-Based Violence: A Hidden Indicator of Political Risk
Analyzing a market’s political stability and volatility is core to investment risk analysis and decision-making about where and how...
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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Toronto-TOOLKIT
Wednesday April 26, 9:00 – 12:00 EST Save the Children Canada, 4141 Yonge St #300, North York, ON M2P...
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Ottawa TOOLKIT
April 19, 10:00 – 12:00 EST Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat – 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa ON K1N...
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ARISE Closing Session
The ARISE Consortium, supported by Global Affairs Canada, recently awarded grants to Canadian civil society organizations to honor...
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ARISE Welcome Event
The ARISE Consortium, supported by Global Affairs Canada, recently awarded grants to Canadian civil society organizations to honor...
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The Gender Lens Investing Circus Is Coming to Ottawa
At the opening ceremony of the Generation Equality Forum in 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major commitment...
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Insights and Invitations – November 2023
Criterion Institute will hold an interactive discussion in November 2023 about our work expanding what is possible for using...
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Insights and Invitations – May 2023
Criterion Institute will hold an interactive discussion in May 2023 about our work expanding what is possible for using...
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Systems Change Training – October 2023
Over the last 21 years, Criterion Institute has been a sustained experiment in systems change, particularly systems change...
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Systems Change Training – July 2023
Over the last 21 years, Criterion Institute has been a sustained experiment in systems change, particularly systems change...
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TOOLKIT Workshop – October 16, 2023
We invite you to join us on October 16, 2023 from 7pm-9pm EST as we kick off the...
