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.

This III guide empowers investors to identify and pursue community engagement opportunities within a place-based impact investment approach.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This paper outlines how and why investors can contribute to equity for all and provides the case for integrating DEI into investment and ownership decisions.

With regulation on human rights due diligence already implemented in some jurisdictions, more measures in the pipeline and policy making converging around the UNGPs and OECD standards, investors can future-proof their approach to ESG issues by implementing these frameworks now.

This paper offers a synopsis of the evolution from community development and ESG investing to the emergence of investing explicitly with a racial equity lens.

ESG investing is plagued by many challenges and misperceptions about why social issues – such as a company’s labour practices or community relations – matter and how or whether they can be integrated into investment analysis.

B Lab Global’s Insights team has created a report that leverages the thousands of users (and data points) of the SDG Action Manager to conduct a comprehensive analysis of where companies are prioritizing actions on the SDGs, how they are performing, and what they are looking to improve upon.

To support investors in confronting and managing the systemic risk of income inequality, TIIP offers a six-step process for investors to tackle systemic issues, such as income inequality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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