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.

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.

This guide has been designed thinking of any research or practitioners’ team interested in piloting the MIF with a feminist perspective, both when framing and implementing the research process but also when conducting the analysis itself.

This report contains key practice-based insights on how funding modalities can succeed in providing sustained and direct resources to feminist movements.

The thesis of this paper is that the awareness of power dynamics will lead to a more intentional design of field building efforts within gender lens investing and climate finance.

The DEI Tool is designed to support organisations to measure their diversity characteristics internally and within the different groups that use their services.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Podcast series on the role Gender Lens Investing plays in the growing field of ethical impact investing.

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.

Laurie Spengler discusses how global shocks, like the current coronavirus pandemic, unveil vulnerabilities of disadvantaged groups, but also expose great existing resilience in communities.

A pathway to action for gender lens investing: In conversation with Laurie Spengler.