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.
Rebalancing the scales: Aiming at equity in social investment contracting
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.
Philanthropy and Equality: A framework for Sharing Power and Addressing Inequalities
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.
Action guide for advancing Community Wealth Building in the United States
This action guide is for those seeking to pursue and advance a Community Wealth Building approach in their locality, including economic development practitioners, community activists and organizations, anchor institutions, local government agencies and leaders, and other interested stakeholders.
Justice Funders - Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund Investment Policy Statement
The Investment Policy Statement for Justice Funders' Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund serves as an open-source learning tool for democratically controlled investment funds and philanthropic institutions.
Impact Investing Institute - Fostering Impact: An Investor Guide for Engaging Communities in Place-based Impact Investing
This III guide empowers investors to identify and pursue community engagement opportunities within a place-based impact investment approach.
Common Future - Participatory Investing Toolkit
This tool from Common Future aims to help funders explore what Participatory Investing could look like within their institution.
Justice Funders - Just Transition Investment Framework: Shifting Capital and Power to Build the Regenerative Economy
This framework from Justice Funders offers a strategy for how philanthropies can shift capital and power to frontline BIPOC communities who are building local regenerative economies.
Center for Economic Democracy - Social Movement Investing: A guide to capital strategies for community power
This Center for Economic Democracy paper is about the promise and the practice of investing capital in coordinated alignment with social movements to amplify, augment and strengthen community power building.