Here’s how organizations can put intersectionality to work
Article about building intersectionality into recruitment strategies, making sure people have opportunities to discuss these issues, and an open and empathic style of leadership.
How to reduce bias in your workplace | The Way We Work, a TED series
3 ways to reduce bias at work, according to Just Work co-founders, author Kim Scott and CEO Trier Bryant. (Video)
Measuring DEI in a corp context
From BCG: The Diversity and Inclusion Assessment for Leadership (DIAL) tool analyses diversity and inclusion benchmarking data within and across industries and geographies and cuts across recruitment, retention, advancement, representation and pay
Project Implicit
Non-profit organization and international, collaborative network of researchers investigating implicit social cognition, or thoughts and feelings that are largely outside of conscious awareness and control.
Grant Making with a Racial Equity Lens
A comprehensive guide from GrantCraft that considers how a racial equity lens looks within grant making organisations and how to apply these skills and strategies.
Racial Justice Resources
This resource page, compiled with input from US SIF’s Racial Justice Task Force, provides information on investing to advance racial justice, organizations working on racial justice and resources on embedding racial equity in the workplace.
Installment 7: How to Invest for Racial Justice
From Adasina Capital: “After years of being disillusioned with the direction of values-aligned investing, Maya and I decided to create what we couldn’t find – an easy way for people to put their racial and social justice values to work while investing in the public markets.”
An Investors' Guide to Investing for Racial Equity
8 simple steps from NIA Impact Capital to incorporate a racial justice lens when making investment decisions. Also simple ways to consider a commitment to racial equity within the Investor Policy Statement.
Guidance and best practice examples for VCs, private equity and institutional investors
This document has been created by leading investors and professionals within the venture community as a resource for institutional and other investors who, through diversity and inclusion, wish to maximise access to diverse deal flow, and manage their companies and portfolios to optimise return.
Amplifying the "S" in ESG: Investor Myth Buster
From the Thomson Reuters Foundation: A new partnership, bringing together civil society, experts, and the private sector to emphasise the importance of the ‘social’ criteria within Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing.
The Rockefeller Foundation Inclusive Economy Indicators - Framework & Indicator Recommendations 2016
In an effort to advance the conceptualization of inclusive economies, our team investigated methods for actually measuring inclusive economies along the five dimensions initially developed by The Rockefeller Foundation.
An ESG key to racial justice
A research brief from Truvalue Labs exploring how ESG gives investors and stakeholders a map for company engagement built on a consistent, evidence-based approach.
A New Approach to Investing in Public Stocks through a Racial Equity Lens
This article lays out the challenges investing public stocks through a racial equity lens, as well as discusses the work Intentional Endowments are doing to address them.
FSG, PolicyLink, and JUST Capital Launch Corporate Racial Equity Alliance and Release 2021 CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity
2021 CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity—a robust guide designed to help corporate leaders navigate the challenges of racial equity work and tackle systemic racism in all three domains of corporate influence: the workplace, communities, and society.
Beyond Intention: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Require Action
How PNC integrated DEI factors into their practices.
How to Upgrade your Due Diligence with a Gender Lens (3.0)
This piece is a response to those who are asking how. They want to incorporate a gender lens into their investment processes, but want to know where to start, how to be methodical and get the most they can out of this approach. This piece will focus on direct investments, and lay out a framework based on Values, Relationships, and Processes that can be applied for upgrading due diligence with a gender lens.
Investor Toolkit on Human Rights
McConnell Family Foundation’s overview of the methodology behind the management of the Foundation’s impact investing portfolio, and particularly of how investment opportunities are currently assessed.
Impact Investing Due Diligence Guide
From the McConnell Family Foundation: An overview of the methodology behind the management of the Foundation’s impact investing portfolio, and particularly of how investment opportunities are currently assessed.
Investing the Rights Way: A Guide for Investors on Business and Human Rights
An overview of key business and human rights developments relevant to investors, with a detailed explanation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, including an explanation of their relevance to investors and suggested questions to companies; an overview of other relevant standards, guidelines and tools that complement and reinforce the UN Guiding Principles, organised by group, context and sector; and an overview of corporate accountability and reporting with regard to business and human rights, focusing on issues of relevance to investors.