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.
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.
The Investment Integration Project - Introduction to Racial Inequity as a System Risk
This report from The Investment Integration Project outlines how the financial industry can manage the systemic risk of racial inequity and promote the equitable distribution of resources, power, and economic opportunity across all races and ethnicities in the US.
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.
Just Futures - Building a social justice investment chain
This landscape scan from Just Futures explores the growing field of social justice investing.
Sumerian Foundation - From Challenges to solutions: Impact Assessment Report
ClearView Research’s in-depth study in partnership with the Sumerian Foundation explored challenges faced by social enterprises led by individuals from underserved backgrounds and uncovered ways to empower them.
Social Investment Business - Minoritised ethnic community and social enterprises
Social Investment Business, Access and Power to Change review of how the three organisations are currently performing in serving the needs of minoritised ethnic communities.
Croatan Institute - Capital at a Crossroads: Accelerating Racial Equity Investment across Asset Classes
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.
Ten Years' Time - Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How Funders Can Act
For all those interested in advancing racial justice in the UK, this report seeks to inject ambition into the British funding landscape and create a clear roadmap for action.
Big Issue Invest - Diversity, equality & inclusion measurement tool
The DEI Tool is designed to support organisations to measure their diversity characteristics internally and within the different groups that use their services.
Due Diligence 2.0 Commitment - BIPOC
Nine considerations to help shift and allocate more capital to BIPOC (black and Indigenous people of colour) managers.
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.
Extend Ventures - Diversity Beyond Gender
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.
Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations - Connecting BME Entrepreneurs to social investment
The aim of the project – delivered by GMCVO, GM BME network and Flourish CIC and supported by the Connect Fund – was to better understand the barriers facing Greater Manchester (GM) Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities to access social investment and what support would be needed to make social enterprise infrastructure more inclusive to BME social enterprise.
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.
Black South West Network - Engaging the BAME social enterprise sector in social investment
This report hopes to increase awareness and knowledge of the availability, benefits and potential pitfalls of social investment reported by the Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic (BAME) social enterprise sector in the south west region of the UK.