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 tool from Common Future aims to help funders explore what Participatory Investing could look like within their institution.

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.

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 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.

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.

The Commission on Social Investment was an independent group set up by Lord Victor Adebowale CBE to investigate the current state of the social investment market and how the market could better enable the growth of social enterprises.

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 DEI Data Group is an independent working group convened by Fozia Irfan and Josh Cockroft, and includes a range of foundations and funders from across the United Kingdom.

Board members may find these questions useful to guide discussions with senior management about the company’s salient human rights issues.

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.

List of data resources that can be looked at in addition to any national or regional sources on inequality.

This series brings together all documents relating to Equality data in the UK.

The Compendium of Practices on Equality Data covers practices on different discrimination grounds and areas of life in which discrimination, inequality and exclusion can occur.

Developed by Oxfam and LSE’s Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, this framework can be used to understand the drivers of inequality and root causes across seven key aspects of life, referencing goals such as the SDGs.

Used by the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC; the UK’s statutory equality and human rights body) as a basis for monitoring and reporting on the UK’s adherence to, and progress on, domestic and international equality and international human rights legal standards.

The SDG Impact Standards are a set of practices that organizations can apply to help build a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient world.