These deeply-researched roadmaps articulate in-depth strategies for how asset owners, asset managers, and nonprofit organizations can mobilize capital towards GBV. Investors and funders can partner with Criterion to amplify these strategies via events, tools, and communications to move actors from intent to action.
Criterion’s work is about expanding what investors, governments, and civil society organizations see as possible for using finance to create transformative social change. Explore our resources based on the specific types of audiences they were intended to support.
As funding for feminist movements shrinks, the amount of global capital keeps growing. Over two recent Open House sessions, we explored how finance (understood as a system of power, not a magic bullet) can be repurposed to extend time, manage risk, and build assets for movements. Here are the key shifts and concrete scenarios emerging from that work.
Criterion’s 2020-2030 strategic plan will enable us to demonstrate how finance can be a tool for transforming structural inequality and systemic injustice.
While endowments are often presented as a tool for long-term transformation, in practice their design can constrain flexibility, access, and alignment with mission. Below, we present a few alternative structures for financial sustainability and resilience that bolster movement autonomy in a volatile funding environment
This guide is for people who are attending the 2026 SVRI Forum with expertise in violence and no particular knowledge in finance.
Developed through the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund, these Learning Books demonstrate how investment systems can be built from local realities rather than external assumptions.
Currency risk is not an unavoidable feature of cross-border finance but a design choice, and funders can use existing tools to shift that burden away from local organizations and toward those better equipped to manage it.
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us achieve our mission.
