The Equality Impact Investing Project (EIIP) and Funders Together are pleased to announce a new partnership that will see Funders Together become the fiscal host for EIIP’s work, while creating a stronger platform for strategic collaboration across philanthropy, social investment and community-led change.

Written by  Patricia Hamzahee, Steering Group, Diversity Forum 
The Diversity Forum is pleased to secure the support of Access – The Foundation for Social Investment, working together with the Equality Impact Investing Project (EIIP) to deliver our shared goals of making social investment more equitable.

By Ceri Goddard, EIIP Co Director
The government’s new Our Place to Give strategy arrives at an important moment for philanthropy. Across the UK there is growing recognition that philanthropic and impact capital have a greater role to play in tackling deep-rooted inequalities. The question is not simply how to grow giving, but how to ensure it reaches communities and organisations best placed to drive lasting change.

By Catherine Harrington
In the face of decades of under-investment, growing regional and place-based inequalities, sharpening community divisions (as plainly exposed in the recent local elections), and the intensifying impacts of climate breakdown, there’s a burgeoning network of communities working at the grassroots to regenerate and transform neighbourhoods.

By EIIP Co-Director Ceri Goddard

£1 million funding announced to drive more equitable social investment

Access backs the Diversity Forum and the Equality Impact Investing Project (EIIP) with over £1 million funding to drive more equitable social investment.

The Diversity Forum and the Equality Impact Investing Project (EIIP) will work with Access – The Foundation for Social Investment to deliver against their shared goals of making social investment more equitable and better able to reach underserved communities.

By EIIP Co-Director Ceri Goddard

The recent report from the Social Impact Investing Advisory Group (SIIAG) provides a practical roadmap for action centred around three key pillars: organising to mobilise and support the impact economy; embedding the mobilisation mindset; and unlocking resources and participation at scale. Each of these pillars represent a key opportunity to accelerate existing, and generate new equality impact investing and philanthropy, if they are grasped.

By Asher Craig, CEO Pathway Fund

Our ‘Investing in an Equitable Future’ strategy, published in November, sets out Pathway's collective commitment for 2026 - 2029: to catalyse large-scale investment into BEM communities, to mainstream racial equity in the UK’s impact investing landscape, and to deliver sustainable social value for all.

By Ceri Goddard and Rana Zincir Celal, EIIP Co Directors

The delivery of the new dormant account’s strategy and forthcoming proposals for new investment vehicle provide a key opportunity to accelerate Equality Impact Investing – if it’s grasped. The Equality Impact Investing Project and its UK Taskforce were created in 2019 to act on a challenge and an opportunity.

The Equality Impact Investing (EII) Task Force continues to be a catalyst for systemic change, with members leading initiatives that exemplify the adoption of our key EII strategies. Here's an overview of recent developments of EII member aligned funds (racial equity, local empowerment, financial inclusion, technology); members embedding EII in practice; and policy and research initiatives.

Equality impact pioneer EIIP and leading UK impact law firm Bates Wells today co-launch the Equalising Deal Terms Key Investor Principles (the EDT Principles), which aim to address power imbalances between impact investors and their investees arising from current practices relating to investment terms, legal documents and processes.

Equally Ours' Head of Enterprise Development Programme Tanishtha SenGupta outlines how EO are tackling root causes of inequality and rights abuse and not just the symptoms.

By Sung-Hyui Park, Bates Wells

To what extent do impact investment terms replicate forms of power, privilege and control that are poorly aligned with mutual trust, respect, and collaborative partnership? Given this, how can investment terms, legal documentation and processes within impact investing better embed the principles and values of equality?

By Paulina Kowalke, Social Tech Trust Programme Manager & Chris Blues, Social Tech Trust Programmes Director

Over the last 6 months we have been holding some key questions – how can the Social Tech Trust, as an impact investor, identify and support ventures that truly foster equality transformation?

The Equality Impact Investing Project welcomed over 50 senior execs and equalities managers on their latest course: Leading Equality Impact Investing: From Principles to Practice (LEIIP).

By Rana Zincir Celal, EIIP Co Director

Addressing inequality needs more than Diversity, Equity & Inclusion policies. With interest growing in equality impact investing (EII), investors are realising the need to embed new skills and knowledge within their organisations to drive forward the EII agenda.

By Ceri Goddard, EIIP Director

EIIP Roundtable’s on equality impact measurement identified a need for more guidance in the here and now and a radical shift of emphasis in future practice.

EIIP is to convene strategic actors from both investing and equality and human rights to explore where impact management practices need to be further developed to advance equality, and how EIIP and others can progress this.

By Rana Zincir Celal, EIIP Co Director

With interest growing in equality impact investing (EII), investors are realising the need to embed new skills and knowledge within their organisations to drive forward the EII agenda.

By Joanne Bauer, Rights CoLab and TIFD

Inspired by the successful uptake of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a wide range of stakeholders from the Global North and Global South are collaborating to launch a Task Force on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures (TIFD).

By Ceri Goddard, EIIP Director

We are delighted to announce that the Connect Fund has agreed a two-year core grant towards further developing EIIP.