Social Investment Business’ data-led decision-making process has led to greater objectivity.

Peer-Selected Investment is a collaborative due-diligence model that takes a bottom-up approach to investing in early-stage startups.

Nine considerations to help shift and allocate more capital to BIPOC (black and Indigenous people of colour) managers.

A framework based on Values, Relationships and Processes for gender lens due diligence.

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.

Equileap provides gender equality benchmark data built on over 3,000 companies across 19 data points to support investors to build gender lens financial products, from fair pay and recruitment to supply chain management.

USERS methodology by The Social Investment Consultancy on inclusive monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Learnings from National Lottery Community Fund on people with lived experience by sectors.

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.

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.

What would investment in communities look like if those very communities were part of the process?

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.

Supported by the Connect Fund, Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is working in partnership with Traverse (formerly known as the OPM Group) to conduct a project aimed at helping Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) better understand and engage with social investment.

We ask, specifically as young people with access to wealth, how can we mobilize resources as effectively as possible in service to movements?

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