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.
Criterion has created this briefing to support civil society actors, donors, and others to analyze and identify how endowments might enable the use of systems of finance as formidable tools to bring about social change and advance social justice.
Growth, Resilience, Investment and Training (GRIT) is a six-year initiative funded by Global Affairs Canada to address the economic gap for women’s empowerment particularly in Northern Sri Lanka.
To support GRIT’s goal of building a gender-responsive entrepreneurial ecosystem, Criterion developed a portfolio of insights to expand thinking and perceptions around how finance could be used for social change.
Sri Lanka is currently in a phase of economic and social recovery following its severest crisis post-independence — a civil war followed by an economic crash.
As the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Sri Lanka takes shape, incubators and accelerators can play an important role by moving beyond a focus on specific entrepreneurs to a broader field-building or ecosystem approach.
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us achieve our mission.
