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Equality Impact Investing at a Crossroads – opening new frontiers, not more of the same, is what’s needed now

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.

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Introducing the Equalising Deal Terms project

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?

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Equality impact & DEI: what’s the difference?

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.

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Impact management and equality impact investing

By Dr Jess Daggers

EIIP is seeking to bridge two fields of practice: the field of impact investing, and the field of equality and human rights. Both of these fields have developed their own measurement practices and frameworks

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Why funders must pledge to fund equitably

By Kevin Osborne, KO Management

I was optimistic about the possibility for change to the stark and urgent problem of only 2.4% of regular arts funding going to BAME* organisations when the BAME population is 14%. But as I plan to launch Create Equity’s campaign for arts funders to pledge to distribute their funding equitably within the next ten years, that optimism has waned.

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