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.
The Young Foundation - the sky’s the limit
Report on what is genders lens investing, how it generates financial return and advances gender equality and what needs to happen to build the field in the UK.
Criterion Institute - Disrupting Fields: Addressing power dynamics in the fields of climate finance and gender lens investing
The framework outlined in this paper is intended to facilitate analysis of power in context and to increase the willingness of field builders (and those who support them) to disrupt systems of power more boldly in order to advance goals of justice and equity.
GenderSmart - GenderSmart Guide to Investing in First-Time Women and Diverse Fund Managers
We believe the private equity and venture capital fields can’t reach their full potential when the participation of women and diverse first-time fund managers is limited.
Refugee Investment Network - Paradigm Shift: How investment can unlock the potential of refugees
The Refugee Investment Network's flagship report offers impact investors, grant-makers, and development finance professionals with the first overview on how to invest in and with forcibly displaced people.
University of Colorado Media Enterprise Design Lab - Exit to Community: A Community Primer
Exit to Community (E2C) is an effort to develop alternatives to the standard model of the startup "exit."
The Democracy Collaborative, Open Society Foundations, Soros Fund Management - Guidelines for Equitable Employee Ownership Transitions
How investors, founders, and employees can share in the value created by broadly held enterprise ownership.
Enclude/Palladium Group - Systems Change: An Emerging Practice in Impact Investing
Impact investors are increasingly engaging in 'systems practice' to better understand the underlying causes to social and environmental problems and to identify high leverage solutions to advance positive systems change.
Pre-distribution Initiative - ESG 2.0: Measuring & Managing Investor Risks Beyond the Enterprise-level
Multi-stakeholder effort includes an invitation and a call to action for institutional investors to address the systemic and systematic risks in how they approach asset class allocation and the misaligned incentives of investment structures.
Calvert Impact Capital - Gender Len Investing: Legal Perspectives
The report explores how investors incorporate gender considerations into the legal documentation and terms of their debt financing, summarizing the results of a survey of 20 investors.
Bridgespan - Back to the Frontier: Investing that Puts Impact First
Impact investing has boomed over the past decade, driven by the ethos that financial performance goes hand-in-hand with social and environmental impact.
Ariadne - Gender Lens Investing
Podcast series on the role Gender Lens Investing plays in the growing field of ethical impact investing.
Big Society Capital - Diversity Practices in the Social Investment Sector
Examples of the equality, diversity and inclusion practices of fund managers in our portfolio and wider sector.
The Young Foundation - Nothing about us without us
The purpose of this report is to highlight the variety of social enterprises and inclusive businesses operating across Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, and to explore the barriers they face in accessing finance.
Big Society Capital / Good Finance - outcomes matrix
The Outcomes Matrix is an interactive tool that provides a useful starting point for you to consider the social impact that you are trying to deliver and how you will measure it.
Investment Climate Reform Faculty - Social Enterprise and Inclusive Business in ACP Countries
The purpose of this report is to highlight the variety of social enterprises and inclusive businesses operating across Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, and to explore the barriers they face in accessing finance.
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.
Diversity Forum - Inclusive Impact: the state of diversity in the social impact sector
The report offers a comprehensive review of diversity in the UK social impact sector.
Lincolnshire Community Foundation/Sortified - On An Equal Footing
On An Equal Footing is a project that is designed to support more women, and women-led community organisations across the East Midlands to access Social Investment opportunities.
Consortium for Stronger LGBT+ Communities - Outcomes Resources for LGBT+ Organisations
Resources for LGBT+ organisations wanting to learn more Outcomes-based thinking.