who we are
EIIP is a strategic and collaborative initiative that brings together a range of social finance and equality actors to develop the field, and levels, of, equality impact investing. We are currently hosted by the Social Investment Business. Our combined staff team, partners and associates and advisors bring both a great depth and a wide diversity of expertise and experience in advancing equality and human rights and financing and investing for impact.
team
Rana Zincir Celal
EIIP Director
Rana brings to EIIP over 20 years of global experience working in philanthropy, social investment and civil society. Read more
Ceri Goddard MBE
EIIP Associate Director
Ceri has previously held senior leadership roles in both financing and social change organisations, pioneering equality impact policy and practice in fields including social innovation and investment, civil society capacity building and participation, gender equality, human rights, poverty reduction, art and culture and community development. Read more
Clare Jeffery
EIIP Communications Associate
Clare provides communications support to EIIP. She has over 25 years of experience in communications for non-profit organisations specialising in international development, sustainability and health.
our strategic partners
EIIP works in close collaboration with key partners on the design and delivery of important initiatives.
We’re pleased to count Bonnie Chiu and Yu-Shan Chiu of The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) as core partners since the origin of EIIP. Together we co-developed EIIP’s training programme and digital toolkit, and are currently devising EIIP’s new strategy for 2024 and beyond.
Sung-Hyui Park, a Partner with Bates Wells, a leading social impact law firm in the UK, has been an integral partner to EIIP on its Equalising Deal Terms project. Sung-Hyui initiated the project as a result of attending the EIIP training, and has been leading it since.
our advisors
EIIP benefits from the advice and support of an advisory group of leading social impact investors and equality and human rights actors. They provide input into our strategic priorities and facilitate partnerships. More details on this groups members to follow shortly.
Uk Taskforce
Convened by the EIIP, the UK Taskforce is a platform for key investment and equality players to collaborate on taking forward the recommendations and wider agenda for action set out in EIIP’s foundational report. Members are both individually and collectively pioneering new approaches to assessing and proactively increasing their impact on inequality.
Our supporters
EIIP currently receives support for its 2021 activities from The Connect Fund and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport’s Inclusive Economy Unit. We are hosted by the Social Investment Business.
Partners, collaborators and Associates
As a collaborative initiative that seeks to harness the insights, commitment and capacities of the wider social impact investing field and the equality and human rights sector, EIIP partners with a number of organisations and individuals to further the EII agenda.
Delivery partners and collaborators
We are pleased to be working with The Social Investment Consultancy to co-design and deliver our inaugural training programme in 2021. Partners and collaborators in our other strands of work being taken forward to build and inform the EII field include Pioneers Post, The Social Investment Forum, Access, Equally Ours, The Impact Investing Institute and others.
associates
EIIP works with a range of Associates who bring specialised expertise in social impact investing and equality and human rights to our various strands of work.