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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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The Gift of Clarity

August 30, 2022

This is a season of gifts. A gift is most wonderful when it is wrapped in a moment of grace and new sense of possibility.

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Congregational Stories: This is What Discovering God's Economy Looks Like

August 31, 2022

Criterion Institute's develops congregational guides and support in an initiative to build a base of congregations and individuals committed to discovering God’s Economy and transforming our own.

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Reflection: Experiencing TOOLKIT

August 31, 2022

Since 2016, Criterion Institute has been delivering our signature workshop, TOOLKIT for Using Finance for Social Change to audiences throughout the globe.

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Reflection: Collaborative Approaches to Gender Lens Investing

August 31, 2022

As an intern with Criterion this semester, I’ve gotten the chance to listen to some pretty powerful conversations with some pretty amazing men and women.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

August 31, 2022

“We’d love to have a gender lens, but we’d have nothing to invest in.” I rocked back on my heels, absorbing this statement from the head of the Africa division of a large social investment fund.

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Guest Post by Will Fowler of Social Good Network

August 31, 2022

One of the most inspiring speakers during the opening session of SOCAP 12, an annual event that brings together investors, philanthropists, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs, was Jackie VanderBrug.

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Value the future of equality
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