
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.
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.
UNDP - From Fragmentation to Integration: Embedding Social Issues in Sustainable Finance
This paper aims to generate momentum within the financial system to tackle inequality and improve a common understanding of the social impacts of a market-based economy.
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.
Sumerian Foundation - From Challenges to solutions: Impact Assessment Report
ClearView Research’s in-depth study in partnership with the Sumerian Foundation explored challenges faced by social enterprises led by individuals from underserved backgrounds and uncovered ways to empower them.
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.
Social Tech Trust - Listening to Founders: Designing approaches for investing in social tech
Shares insights from 23 Social Tech ventures exploring the current funding landscape for Social Impact initiatives and what can be done to help ventures scale their impact.
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.