EII RESOURCES FROM THE FIELD
As a collaborative endeavour that seeks to build the field of equality impact investing, EIIP gathers resources that demonstrate or support social impact investing putting equality impact principles and strategies into practice. These resources are made available for the benefit of the entire community, to catalyse and advance knowledge and action for equality impact.
You are welcome to submit resources for the EIIP Knowledge Hub through this form. These can include resources developed through by your own organization or any other resources that you would like to see featured and made available to the EII community.
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Resources can be examples of funds, practices, processes, research or data. Formats can include web links, case studies, reports, research articles, policy documents, application forms, communications strategies or assessment criteria.
Equality Trust - Recognising Structural Inequalities
To eradicate structural inequality we must become comfortable in naming and describing it. This short read will help you to recognise structural inequality, some causes and effects, and principles to mitigate impacts.
Social Tech Trust - Equality Transformative Tool
This interactive Equality Transformative Tool can be integrated into impact investors’ due diligence and portfolio management processes to identify ventures that remove barriers for the most marginalised and underserved people in society, supporting alignment with one of five EII strategies.
Justice Funders - Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund Investment Policy Statement
The Investment Policy Statement for Justice Funders' Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund serves as an open-source learning tool for democratically controlled investment funds and philanthropic institutions.
The Key Fund - Social Impact Report 2022/23
This Key Fund report draws on case studies and figures to illustrate how the fund has provided support to over 378,000 individuals.
Impact Investing Institute - Fostering Impact: An Investor Guide for Engaging Communities in Place-based Impact Investing
This III guide empowers investors to identify and pursue community engagement opportunities within a place-based impact investment approach.
The Investment Integration Project - Introduction to Racial Inequity as a System Risk
This report from The Investment Integration Project outlines how the financial industry can manage the systemic risk of racial inequity and promote the equitable distribution of resources, power, and economic opportunity across all races and ethnicities in the US.
Criterion Institute - Introducing standards of practice for gender lens investing
Criterion's Standards of Practice aim to make the negative and usually hidden impacts of power, privilege and bias visible within investment practices, and provide concrete steps to address them.
Criterion Institute - Community-Centered Blended Finance: Towards a Transformative Approach
This report from Criterion Institute examines ways that blended finance is currently being deployed to address unequal dynamics of power and promote flourishing communities, and offer some new perspectives and alternative approaches to using this tool.
Institute for Fiscal Studies Deaton Review - Evidence Volume on UK inequalities
Led by Professor Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Deaton Review is the most ambitious study of its kind to examine a range of inequalities in the UK and the forces driving them.
Common Future - Participatory Investing Toolkit
This tool from Common Future aims to help funders explore what Participatory Investing could look like within their institution.
Justice Funders - Just Transition Investment Framework: Shifting Capital and Power to Build the Regenerative Economy
This framework from Justice Funders offers a strategy for how philanthropies can shift capital and power to frontline BIPOC communities who are building local regenerative economies.
Just Futures - Building a social justice investment chain
This landscape scan from Just Futures explores the growing field of social justice investing.
Center for Economic Democracy - Social Movement Investing: A guide to capital strategies for community power
This Center for Economic Democracy paper is about the promise and the practice of investing capital in coordinated alignment with social movements to amplify, augment and strengthen community power building.
UNDP - From Fragmentation to Integration: Embedding Social Issues in Sustainable Finance
This paper aims to generate momentum within the financial system to tackle inequality and improve a common understanding of the social impacts of a market-based economy.
Equality Fund - An Introduction to the Equality Fund’s Intersectional Investment Guidelines
The Equality Fund’s Intersectional Investment Guidelines aim to ensure investments are rooted in the pursuit of systems change, when used alongside its Gender-Lens Investing Criteria.
Sumerian Foundation - From Challenges to solutions: Impact Assessment Report
ClearView Research’s in-depth study in partnership with the Sumerian Foundation explored challenges faced by social enterprises led by individuals from underserved backgrounds and uncovered ways to empower them.
Diversity Forum - Manifesto 2.0
Manifesto 2.0 is a bold new way to address equity, equality, diversity and inclusion in the social investment sector.
GenderSmart - Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) investing
The tools and resources on this site have been developed to help allocators and investment influencers incorporate a gender lens alongside racial and ethnic justice* across the investment process.
Equally Ours - Levelling Up: Firm foundations
This report presents an evidence base and a narrative for ‘levelling up’ from an equality and human rights perspective, with recommendations to improve opportunity and outcomes for everyone, where no-one is left behind.
Social Tech Trust - Listening to Founders: Designing approaches for investing in social tech
Shares insights from 23 Social Tech ventures exploring the current funding landscape for Social Impact initiatives and what can be done to help ventures scale their impact.