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.
Buen Vivir Fund - Linking Participation and Economic Advancement
The Buen Vivir Fund seeks to promote financial models and practices that support communities’ holistic wellbeing, as opposed to focusing solely on maximizing individuals’ capital accumulation.
SheEO - Values and Practices
The SheEO model brings together women from all different backgrounds + ages, called Activators who contribute to a Perpetual Fund that is loaned out at zero percent interest to women-led Ventures who are working on the World’s To-Do List, who are selected by the Activators.
Social Investment Business - methodology
Social Investment Business’ data-led decision-making process has led to greater objectivity.
Diversity VC - tools and practices
Provides VCs with the tools and practices to open their networks and make funding available to underrepresented founders, as well as the resources needed to cultivate an environment where founders and colleagues from all backgrounds feel they belong in the industry and the ecosystem.
National Lottery Community Fund - Learnings from National Lottery Community Fund on people with lived experience by sectors
Learnings from National Lottery Community Fund on people with lived experience by sectors.
LSE Case & Oxfam - Data resources for multidimensional inequality
List of data resources that can be looked at in addition to any national or regional sources on inequality.
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (UKJ) - Equality data (UK)
This series brings together all documents relating to Equality data in the UK.
Extend Ventures - Diversity Beyond Gender
This report analyses the extent of the UK funding gap to understand if bias beyond gender exists in the UK venture capital market and what opportunities lie ahead to make access to innovation and entrepreneurship more equitable.
Transform Finance - Grassroots Community Engaged Investment
What would investment in communities look like if those very communities were part of the process?
Resource Generation - Transformative Investment Principles
We ask, specifically as young people with access to wealth, how can we mobilize resources as effectively as possible in service to movements?
The Young Foundation - the sky’s the limit
Report on what is genders lens investing, how it generates financial return and advances gender equality and what needs to happen to build the field in the UK.
Criterion Institute - Disrupting Fields: Addressing power dynamics in the fields of climate finance and gender lens investing
The framework outlined in this paper is intended to facilitate analysis of power in context and to increase the willingness of field builders (and those who support them) to disrupt systems of power more boldly in order to advance goals of justice and equity.
Refugee Investment Network - Paradigm Shift: How investment can unlock the potential of refugees
The Refugee Investment Network's flagship report offers impact investors, grant-makers, and development finance professionals with the first overview on how to invest in and with forcibly displaced people.
University of Colorado Media Enterprise Design Lab - Exit to Community: A Community Primer
Exit to Community (E2C) is an effort to develop alternatives to the standard model of the startup "exit."
Enclude/Palladium Group - Systems Change: An Emerging Practice in Impact Investing
Impact investors are increasingly engaging in 'systems practice' to better understand the underlying causes to social and environmental problems and to identify high leverage solutions to advance positive systems change.
Black South West Network - Engaging the BAME social enterprise sector in social investment
This report hopes to increase awareness and knowledge of the availability, benefits and potential pitfalls of social investment reported by the Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic (BAME) social enterprise sector in the south west region of the UK.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation/Sortified - On An Equal Footing
On An Equal Footing is a project that is designed to support more women, and women-led community organisations across the East Midlands to access Social Investment opportunities.
Impact Investing Institute - Gender Lens Post Pandemic
Laurie Spengler discusses how global shocks, like the current coronavirus pandemic, unveil vulnerabilities of disadvantaged groups, but also expose great existing resilience in communities.