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Expanding Our Financial Imagination in Times of Crisis

June 11, 2020

The Tipping Point Our world has been turned upside down. In a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the rhythms of our lives and caused vast human suffering – physical, social, economic, spiritual.

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Recovery Investing to Reimagine the Gender-Based Violence Pandemic

June 9, 2020

By Catherine Poulton, UNICEF, and Tia Subramanian, Criterion Institute Criterion Institute and UNICEF have partnered to create a due diligence tool for investors to identify and mitigate the investment risks gender-based violence poses.

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SheEO Podcast: Using finance as a tool to create social change with Joy Anderson

October 3, 2019

In this podcast episode, SheEO Founder Vicki Saunders sits down with Joy Anderson to talk about what’s broken with the current VC funding model,

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I Love Your Materials!

April 16, 2020

“I love your materials!” That is a direct quote from Marlene Kroeker on a call with Criterion Institute via Zoom last week.

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The Stars are Aligned

November 13, 2019

Like many small urban churches, Westminster Presbyterian Church in Trenton, New Jersey, punches way above its weight.

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Why not just make it a gift?

February 13, 2020

Why make small loans then, when it is so much more satisfying and often easier to give outright and to serve directly? Why get involved with businesses at all?

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