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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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Investing with an Integrated Child Lens - A Call to Action for Climate Finance

October 31, 2023

Investments in climate mitigation and adaptation continue to increase, but the impact of these investments on children – both positive and negative – is not being systematically considered.

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Introducing Standards of Practice for Gender Lens Investing

October 3, 2023

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A Blueprint for Grassroots Organizations on Using Finance for Social Change

August 31, 2022

The Blueprint is a document about social change, written for change makers. The focus of the Blueprint is to show how individuals working within grassroots organizations can use finance as a tool in their work

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Faith and Finance: One Pastor’s Reflections

August 30, 2022

Meet Rev. Philip Waite, a new friend of Criterion Institute, who has a passion for connecting faith and finance to do God’s work in the world. Rev. Waite is pastoral team leader of College Mennonite Church on the campus of Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.

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Congregational Stories: Relationships and Microlending's Best Dividend

August 30, 2022

Now in our third year of interest-free lending to small businesses in greater Austin, University United Methodist’s most valuable “dividend” is our relationships with our neighbors providing the “sweat equity” to start or grow those businesses.

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Hope and Grace Abound

August 31, 2022

Hope was the first word spoken. Members of the 1K Churches team at Napa Valley Lutheran Church (Napa, California) had been asked to use one word to express what they were feeling now -- four years since they first began with the Bible study.

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