This report shares insights from the Growth Impact Fund, which was launched in 2022 to actively address inequality by increasing access to finance. It highlights expected and unexpected barriers the fund has faced, such as challenges within the legal process during contracting and negotiation stage of deals, and the steps taken to address them.

This OECD paper defines the legal notions, traditions and approaches to better understand legal frameworks that regulate the field of social and solidarity economy. It presents and analyses the diversity, relevance and implications of legal frameworks that regulate the social economy; takes stock of the processes that lead to their design and implementation; identifies possible criteria for assessing their performance; and highlights the crosscutting issues and policy examples that could inspire countries.

The Equality Framework highlights how inequality is deeply connected to power structures, climate justice, democratic practice, and how it is deeply entangled with philanthropy’s history, funding models, operating practices and legitimacy.

UK Material Deprivation Measures are one source of data commonly used by impact investors to identify key inequality challenges. LSE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion have published a review of the measures, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions following recommendations by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) to review the current set of questions which underpin UK material deprivation measures and determine a way to compare material deprivation across groups.

The Charity Investment Governance Principles are intended to be used by those involved in charity governance in England and Wales, in particular trustees, staff and committee members to support best practice in decision-making around charity investments.

This report on the impact, learning and legacy of the £6.3 million Connect Fund found its impact was strongest on open, fair and transparent access; and far greater understanding and action on barriers faced by organisations led by under-represented groups and investment flowing particularly to organisations led by under-represented groups.

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.

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.

Led by Professor Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Deaton Review is the most ambitious study of its kind to examine a range of inequalities in the UK and the forces driving them.

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.

Manifesto 2.0 is a bold new way to address equity, equality, diversity and inclusion in the social investment sector.

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 report presents an evidence base and a narrative for ‘levelling up’ from an equality and human rights perspective, with recommendations to improve opportunity and outcomes for everyone, where no-one is left behind.

Shares insights from 23 Social Tech ventures exploring the current funding landscape for Social Impact initiatives and what can be done to help ventures scale their impact.

BSC's EDI plan rests on three focus areas - People and Culture, Engagement and Market Building and Investment and Portfolio.

The Diversity Dashboard reflects the data from seven funds and programmes over the last 2 years: totalling 5,189 applicants with 1,404 approved, and contains key organisational information on 4,737 unique social sector organisations.

As well as producing an estimate of UK market size for the first time, the report analyses the key attributes and actors within the market today, the levers and drivers that can support its growth and the trends that are likely to dominate it in the future.

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.