Making direct investments into growth companies addressing gender-based violence in the safety sector to drive innovation.
Identifying alternative structures to finance the reduction of gender-based violence
Increasing the cultural power and influence of media and entertainment companies addressing the root causes of violence.
Creating standards and a framework that private market investors can use to reward and influence practices that mitigate violence and enable survivors to thrive.
Inviting private investors to imagine how to shift power dynamics within financial systems to finance the reduce the reduction of gender-based violence
Using a gender-based violence lens to analyze existing datasets to better understand a company’s practices and culture
Creating standards and an investment framework that enables public investors to screen companies for potential operational upside and reputational risk related to gender-based violence.
Criterion Institute, in partnership with Christian Super, has developed a framework for how gender-based violence poses an investment risk—and a draft tool for assessing the investment risk to public equity portfolios as a result of gender-based violence.
Building on a collaboration between Criterion Institute and SheEO in the Money & Power podcast series, our team is partnering with SheEO to produce a set of unique process metrics that analyze power dynamics for the organization.
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us demonstrate our theory of change and ultimately achieve our mission. Learn more about how you can become more engaged in our work.
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