Podcast Episode 33
#033: The Core Pillars of Our Strategic Plan: Inviting Financial Imagination
This episode focuses on the Core Pillar of the Criterion Institute's Strategic Plan: 'Invite Financial Imagination'. Joy explores the reasons behind this pillar, the importance of inviting a financial imagination, and the concept of a feminist financial imagination.
The episode also highlights the need for social change leaders to be at the centre of designing solutions involving finance and the role of finance in creating social change. The goal is to inspire organizations, governments, and investors to use a broader financial imagination to achieve gender equality and social justice objectives.
Episode Highlights
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The Blueprints demonstrate how a variety of social change organizations can design strategies that use systems of finance as tools to create positive social change.
These roadmaps lay out insights for how finance can be used to address gender-based violence in a range of sectors, asset classes, geographies, and investor types.
The TOOLKIT is designed to support your journey as you explore how finance can be used as a tool to create social change.
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These gender-based violence due diligence tools analyze existing due diligence categories – including political, regulatory, operational, and reputational risks – and show how they can be affected by gender-based violence.
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