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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.

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Joy Anderson at the Unreasonable Institute

August 31, 2022

Joy Anderson, President and Founder of Criterion Ventures, spoke to fellows at the Unreasonable Institute in June

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WEI's Early Definitions of a Gender Lens

April 19, 2012

Within the Women Effect Investments initiative, we bump up against the same question all the time.

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Shift Narratives in innovative finance
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1K Churches Profile: Peter Baumhefner

August 31, 2022

Upon retirement in July 2010, a certain part of my brain became free and clear of the clutter associated with a normal 60-hour week business environment

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Report: The Landscape of Social Investing in Women

July 27, 2012

We are at a moment of great growth and innovation in the social capital markets, as we begin to apply investment capital toward solving some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems while also generating financial returns for investors.

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Value the future of equality
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Reflection on a Church as an Economic Being Gathering

August 30, 2022

“Though religion and money aren’t usually what motivates 25 people into an engaging, insightful, and inspiring conversation on a Wednesday night

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Child Lens Investing - Intersection with gender lens investing

August 29, 2023

Gender norms and their associated power dynamics are shaped during childhood through a complex interplay of factors.

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Move from checkboxes to choices in implementation, because context matters.
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