
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.
Legal frameworks for the social and solidarity economy
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.
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.
Gender Justice Data Hub
The Gender Justice Data Hub from Global Fund for Women connects research, technology, and social movements' insights to deepen understanding of gender justice efforts worldwide.
Charity Investment Governance Principles
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.
Equality Trust - Recognising Structural Inequalities
To eradicate structural inequality we must become comfortable in naming and describing it. This short read will help you to recognise structural inequality, some causes and effects, and principles to mitigate impacts.
Social Tech Trust - Equality Transformative Tool
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.
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.
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.
Criterion Institute - Introducing standards of practice for gender lens investing
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.
Criterion Institute - Community-Centered Blended Finance: Towards a Transformative Approach
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.
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.
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.
Equality Fund - An Introduction to the Equality Fund’s Intersectional Investment Guidelines
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.
Diversity Forum - Manifesto 2.0
Manifesto 2.0 is a bold new way to address equity, equality, diversity and inclusion in the social investment sector.
GenderSmart - Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) investing
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.
Equally Ours - Levelling Up: Firm foundations
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.