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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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Putting Nutrition on the Plate

April 23, 2024

In this report, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Criterion Institute have partnered to highlight the critical opportunities that child-lens investors can unlock by embedding a strong nutrition focus within their work.

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How Coralus Use Their Power to Address Privilege and Bias in Investment Practice

April 22, 2024

Coralus' non-traditional approach to selection and allocation demonstrate how power can be shifted within investment approaches. Below, we identify six of these, with an evaluation of how they disrupt traditional power dynamics.

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Shift Narratives in innovative finance
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Invite Financial Imagination
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Implementation Guides: 5 Investment Pathways for Congregations

April 5, 2024

Our mission is to broaden what matters in our economic decisions by expanding who has power and influence in the work of reinventing the economy.

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Disrupting Fields Summary

October 30, 2023

This overview of a recent Criterion report provides guidance about the power dynamics that underlie field-building.

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Move from counting women to valuing gender patterns
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Standards of Practice on Translation

Criterion is developing over 200 Standards of Practice. This short set on Translation represents ways investors can shift how gender expertise is valued within certain financial processes, structures, and analyses.

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Investment Pathway Implementation Guides

April 5, 2016

Not every congregation will have the same access to capital, the same financial savvy, or the same investment goals. Congregations will be drawn to a range of mission priorities. We have identified ten areas of social concern that are relevant cultural and social issues, and influenced by economic structures.

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1K Churches
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