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.
Big Society Capital - EDI Plan
BSC's EDI plan rests on three focus areas - People and Culture, Engagement and Market Building and Investment and Portfolio.
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.
Social Economy Data Lab - Diversity DAshboard
The Diversity Dashboard reflects the data from seven funds and programmes over the last 2 years: totalling 5,189 applicants with 1,404 approved, and contains key organisational information on 4,737 unique social sector organisations.
Impact Investing Institute - Estimating and Describing the UK Impact Investing Market
As well as producing an estimate of UK market size for the first time, the report analyses the key attributes and actors within the market today, the levers and drivers that can support its growth and the trends that are likely to dominate it in the future.
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Key Action Areas for Investors
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.
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) - Why and How Investors Should Act on Human Rights
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.
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.
Thomson Reuters Foundation - Amplifying the ‘S’ in ESG: Investor Myth Buster
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.
Social Enterprise UK - Reclaiming the Future: Reforming Social Investment for the Next Decade
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.
B Lab Global - SDG Insights Report
B Lab Global’s Insights team has created a report that leverages the thousands of users (and data points) of the SDG Action Manager to conduct a comprehensive analysis of where companies are prioritizing actions on the SDGs, how they are performing, and what they are looking to improve upon.
The Investment Integration Project (TIIP) - Systemic Stewardship: Investing to Address Income Inequality
To support investors in confronting and managing the systemic risk of income inequality, TIIP offers a six-step process for investors to tackle systemic issues, such as income inequality.
Oxfam - A Feminist Approach to the Multidimensional Inequality Framework
This guide has been designed thinking of any research or practitioners’ team interested in piloting the MIF with a feminist perspective, both when framing and implementing the research process but also when conducting the analysis itself.
Association for Women in Development (AWID) - Moving More Money to the Drivers of Change: How Bilateral and Multilateral Funders Can Resource Feminist Movements
This report contains key practice-based insights on how funding modalities can succeed in providing sustained and direct resources to feminist movements.
Criterion Institute - Disrupting Fields: Addressing Power Dynamics in the Fields of Climate Finance and Gender Lens Investing
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.
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.
DEI Data Group - DEI Data Standard
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.
Engineers Without Borders Canada - A Transformative Evaluation Toolkit for the Impact Investing Sector
This toolkit is designed to help entrepreneurs, investors, consultants, evaluators or other practitioners deepen their social impact measurement and management process in the impact investing sector.
Buen Vivir Fund - Linking Participation and Economic Advancement
The Buen Vivir Fund seeks to promote financial models and practices that support communities’ holistic wellbeing, as opposed to focusing solely on maximizing individuals’ capital accumulation.
SheEO - Values and Practices
The SheEO model brings together women from all different backgrounds + ages, called Activators who contribute to a Perpetual Fund that is loaned out at zero percent interest to women-led Ventures who are working on the World’s To-Do List, who are selected by the Activators.