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 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.

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.

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).

We're delighted to share our new Equality Impact Investing Toolkit, our introductory guide for social and impact investors on EII fundamentals and how to put them into practice.

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

A key recommendation of EIIP’s foundational research is that impact management and measurement (IMM) frameworks used within the impact investment sector need to be better aligned with equality and human rights considerations.

The fifth podcast in the fantastic Ariadne Podcast Gender Lens Investment Series featuring our Director Ceri Goddard and others pushing the boundaries to look at the future of gender lens and wider equality impact investing.

Eighty five social impact investors are well underway upskilling, and adding to, key equality impact investing strategies in EIIP’s very first training and action learning programme.