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
-
Reframing Resilience in the Time of COVID: Challenging the Status Quo and Transforming Power
In an aptly named recent NY Times article, Is Resilience Overrated?, Jami Attenberg wrote: “I want people to be proud of themselves for being...
-
Attention to Gender and Power in Rebuilding Economies
Women historically experience significant challenges to accessing capital and resources in pursuit of starting and maintaining businesses. This reality...
-
Gender as Material to Infrastructure Projects: Reaching Better Outcomes by Applying a Gender Lens from Project Inception
This paper argues for the application of a gender lens at the earliest stage of developing better infrastructure projects,...
-
Introducing the Power of Policy Program
Building on years of existing work and partnerships, Criterion Institute launched the Power of Policy Program this February of...
-
Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis with a Gender Lens: An Opportunity for Gender Lens Investors in Southeast Asia
The COVID-19 health crisis has caused unprecedented impact on global supply chains and capital flows. These changes are having,...
-
Q&A with Candide Group’s Jasmine Rashid: Bringing a Social Justice Lens to Finance and Investment
In this issue of Criterion Connections, Tia Subramanian of the Criterion Institute speaks with Jasmine Rashid, Director of Advocacy...
-
Q&A with SEIU’s Secretary-Treasurer Gerry Hudson: Valuing Worker Health and Safety in the COVID-19 Recovery
In this issue of Criterion Connections, Christina Madden of the Criterion Institute speaks with Gerry Hudson, Secretary-Treasurer of the...
-
Q&A with Level Forward’s Adrienne Becker: Shifting Gender and Social Norms through Investments in Entertainment
In this issue of Criterion Connections, Christina Madden of the Criterion Institute speaks with Adrienne Becker, CEO and Co-founder...
-
Q&A with The 22 Fund’s Tracy Gray: Catalyzing Systemic Change in Impact Investing and Venture Capital
In this issue of Criterion Connections, Christina Madden of the Criterion Institute speaks with Tracy Gray, Founder and Managing...
-
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...
News
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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....
-
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...
-
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.
-
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...
-
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...
-
SOCAP 2016 and Gender: Something’s Gotta Give (ImpactAlpha)
//impactalpha.com/socap16-and-gender-somethings-gotta-give/
Events
-
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...
