The DEI Data Group is an independent working group convened by Fozia Irfan and Josh Cockroft, and includes a range of foundations and funders from across the United Kingdom.

This toolkit is designed to help entrepreneurs, investors, consultants, evaluators or other practitioners deepen their social impact measurement and management process in the impact investing sector.

Peer-Selected Investment is a collaborative due-diligence model that takes a bottom-up approach to investing in early-stage startups.

Nine considerations to help shift and allocate more capital to BIPOC (black and Indigenous people of colour) managers.

A framework based on Values, Relationships and Processes for gender lens due diligence.

Board members may find these questions useful to guide discussions with senior management about the company’s salient human rights issues.

Equileap provides gender equality benchmark data built on over 3,000 companies across 19 data points to support investors to build gender lens financial products, from fair pay and recruitment to supply chain management.

USERS methodology by The Social Investment Consultancy on inclusive monitoring, evaluation and learning.

The Compendium of Practices on Equality Data covers practices on different discrimination grounds and areas of life in which discrimination, inequality and exclusion can occur.

Developed by Oxfam and LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, this framework can be used to understand the drivers of inequality and root causes across seven key aspects of life, referencing goals such as the SDGs.

Used by the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC; the UK’s statutory equality and human rights body) as a basis for monitoring and reporting on the UK’s adherence to, and progress on, domestic and international equality and international human rights legal standards.

The aim of the project – delivered by GMCVO, GM BME network and Flourish CIC and supported by the Connect Fund – was to better understand the barriers facing Greater Manchester (GM) Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities to access social investment and what support would be needed to make social enterprise infrastructure more inclusive to BME social enterprise.

Supported by the Connect Fund, Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is working in partnership with Traverse (formerly known as the OPM Group) to conduct a project aimed at helping Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) better understand and engage with social investment.

The SDG Impact Standards are a set of practices that organizations can apply to help build a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient world.

We believe the private equity and venture capital fields can’t reach their full potential when the participation of women and diverse first-time fund managers is limited.

How investors, founders, and employees can share in the value created by broadly held enterprise ownership.

Multi-stakeholder effort includes an invitation and a call to action for institutional investors to address the systemic and systematic risks in how they approach asset class allocation and the misaligned incentives of investment structures.

The report explores how investors incorporate gender considerations into the legal documentation and terms of their debt financing, summarizing the results of a survey of 20 investors.

III’s open-source Learning Hub helps individuals and organisations to build their knowledge and skills about impact investing so that they can integrate it into their work and investment decisions.