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.

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?

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.

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.

By Aimee Dorsett-Brown, Equally Ours

The Enterprise Development Programme offers tailored support to civil society organisations looking to explore new models of trading or grow existing ones as a way to build up financial resilience, grow unrestricted funding and foster innovation across the charitable sector.

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

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.

By EIIP Senior Associate Rana Zincir Celal

With the training materials from our very first EIIP training programme now available on our website, impact investors now have access to our full course content, covering both the theory and practice of equality impact investing.

As EIIP launches a new web platform to support greater investor action on inequality, our EIIP Director, Ceri Goddard asks if not now then when?

We are pleased to share Big Society Capital (BSC) blog by 2027 Programme Graduate, Manprit Vig, who looks back and reflects on his placement at BSC and the springboard that provided both him and the organisation the opportunity to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).