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.
Big Society Capital - EDI Plan
BSC's EDI plan rests on three focus areas - People and Culture, Engagement and Market Building and Investment and Portfolio.
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.
Village Capital - Flipping the Power Dynamics: Can entrepreneurs make successful investment decisions?
Peer-Selected Investment is a collaborative due-diligence model that takes a bottom-up approach to investing in early-stage startups.
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.
Transform Finance - Grassroots Community Engaged Investment
What would investment in communities look like if those very communities were part of the process?
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.
Ariadne - Gender Lens Investing
Podcast series on the role Gender Lens Investing plays in the growing field of ethical impact investing.
Big Society Capital - Diversity Practices in the Social Investment Sector
Examples of the equality, diversity and inclusion practices of fund managers in our portfolio and wider sector.
Unltd - Making Inclusion a Reality
When UnLtd and our partners launched the Social Enterprise Support Fund (SESF) in July 2020, the UK and the world was going through a social awakening.