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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Congregations Stories: Emmanuel Lutheran’s Micro-lending Initiative Part II
From Mountaintop through the Valley of Implementation Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Naples, FL conducted its first 1K micro-lending retreat in...
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Implementation Guide: Lending Through a Group of Small Business Owners
Most 1K Churches choose the simplest, most direct pathway for their loan to a small business. We call it...
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Hope and Grace Abound
Hope was the first word spoken. Members of the 1K Churches team at Napa Valley Lutheran Church (Napa, California) had...
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Transforming Power
In God’s economy, members of the human family work together for the common good – producing, growing, building, trading,...
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Congregational Stories: Youth and Adults Combine to Complete 1K Bible Study in a One-Day Retreat
Leaders from Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Naples, Florida, report this month on their highly successful intergenerational retreat, during which...
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Video: A Spiral Of Change: Understanding The Investment Impact Of Sexual And Gender-Based Violence
From Cornerstone Capital: Recently, Cornerstone Capital’s Head of Impact Strategy, Katherine Pease, sat down for an in-depth discussion...
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Reflection: Finance and Gender Experts in Vietnam Shape a Growing Community of Practice in Gender Lens Investing Across Southeast Asia
Over 40 gender and finance experts came together with community leaders in Ho Chi Minh City for a two-day...
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Nascent? No way! Southeast Asia is Worthy of the Global Gender Lens Investing Stage
Now is a critical moment to shape the terms of capital in Southeast Asia. More than ever, investments are...
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Document: Framing Gender Lens Investing
Conversations about the intersection of finance and gender are gaining traction and generating exciting momentum for the field of...
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Congregational Stories: When we Hold Hands Together, Magic Can Happen
In October 2017, after nearly two years of study, prayer and planning, the Union Church in Waban, Massachusetts, officially...
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)
http://impactalpha.com/socap16-and-gender-somethings-gotta-give/
Events
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December 4 FT Investing for Good USA Innovative Finance and the Gender Lens Opportunity (New York, New York)
Gender equality is a critical pillar of a healthy society and economy. And a growing body of evidence suggests...
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November 28 Beyond Borders 2018: Building the Runway for Young Women to Enter the Global Workforce (New York, New York)
Annually, Women’s Education Project’s Beyond Borders forum, discusses the issues of women and girls living in poverty globally. Beyond Borders 2017 focused...
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November 14-16 American Baptist Home Mission Societies Space for Grace (Philadelphia, PA)
In November, we will be in Philadelphia at the American Baptist Home Mission Societies Space for Grace Conference. The...
