Podcast Episode 35
#035: The Core Pillars of Our Strategic Plan: Valuing the Future of Equality
In this episode, Joy discusses how to reimagine investments to support a future of equality. She explores the Core Pillar of the Criterion Institute's Strategic Plan: Value the Future of Equality, and the importance of recognizing the potential of social change organizations.
Joy also highlights the need for investment methodologies that name and value a future of equality, and the role of partnerships and data in building robust investment theses. She outlines how to build an effective investment thesis which challenges biases and assumptions about risk, and the importance of aligning with policy changes and building alliances to ensure a hopeful future.
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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.
1K Churches was launched in 2012 to galvanize a movement in the faith-based community and engage US churches to invest in the local economy.
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.
Gender-based violence is ubiquitous. More than 1 in 3 women worldwide experiences physical or sexual violence, and millions of men, boys, and gender-diverse individuals are affected by physical, sexual, and emotional abuse daily.