GBV Approaches to Investing: ESG Integration

The ESG-integrated approach is for investors in public equities and fixed income who are integrating ESG considerations to help identify risks and opportunities that would impact the financial return of the investment.

GBV Approaches to Investing: Catalytic Strategies

The Catalytic Strategies approach is for investors in private markets who are willing to apply patient, flexible, risk-tolerant, and appropriately termed capital in pursuit of positive outcomes.

Gender-based Violence Due Diligence Tool

Criterion Institute, in partnership with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, created a guide for investors in the Pacific region to understand the risk their investments are exposed to as a result of gender-based violence, and to incorporate that risk assessment into their existing due diligence process.

Stepping Up for Systems Change: Plenary Discussion

Joy Anderson, Dolika Banda, and Hiro Mizuno discuss what it would take to 100X gender-smart investing at the 2021 GenderSmart Investing Summit. Moderated by Laurie Spengler.

Mitigating GBV for a Better Future

Investing with an Integrated Child Lens - A Call to Action for Climate Finance

Investments in climate mitigation and adaptation continue to increase, but the impact of these investments on children – both positive and negative – is not being systematically considered.

Introducing Standards of Practice for Gender Lens Investing

A Blueprint for Grassroots Organizations on Using Finance for Social Change

The Blueprint is a document about social change, written for change makers. The focus of the Blueprint is to show how individuals working within grassroots organizations can use finance as a tool in their work

Faith and Finance: One Pastor’s Reflections

Meet Rev. Philip Waite, a new friend of Criterion Institute, who has a passion for connecting faith and finance to do God’s work in the world. Rev. Waite is pastoral team leader of College Mennonite Church on the campus of Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.