The Restorative Investing Task Force
The goal of the Restorative Investing Task Force is to create a library of restorative / non-extractive case examples and to fund BIPOC Intermediaries, Funds and Entrepreneurs using restorative investing practices. This is meant to be a starting point for gathering and sharing information. We invite you to share this information with others and share your resources and restorative investing examples with us to include in this webpage.
Guide for General Counsels: Insights into Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting
Aimed at General Counsels who advise Boards on a regular basis, this guide looks at the legal considerations behind ethnicity pay gap reporting, in particular the data protection and employment concerns, that can become a perceived barrier to publishing these statistics.
Embedding Racial Equity Commitments in Organizational DNA
Mission Investors curates a growing list of strategies by foundations and impact investors to embed racial equity into organizational DNA.
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.
7 ways companies are advancing racial justice in business
Over the past year, the pressure for companies to act on racial equality has increased. In response, they have started to focus on seven key actions to increase diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I). These include hiring for DE&I roles and providing anti-bias trainings.
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.
Diversity in Investment: Enabling performance by unleashing talent in global capital markets through diversity
From the Investor Leadership Network: Committed to tracking progress and making an impact on sectors with an underrepresentation of diverse talent, the Diversity in Investment initiative aims to open opportunities for diverse talent in finance and investment worldwide and to increase the presence of diverse talent in investment and management roles in the financial industry.
Applying an Intersectional Investment Lens Across Gender and Race
Explore how investors might consider both gender and race in their investment analysis, enabling their investment portfolios to uplift women and communities of color more effectively
Diversity in Action Roadmap
From ILPA: "The Diversity in Action initiative brings together limited partners and general partners who share a commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the private equity industry. The goal of the initiative is to motivate market participants to engage in the journey towards becoming more diverse and inclusive and to build momentum around the adoption of specific actions that advance DEI over time.”
Time to Decolonise Aid: Insights and lessons from a global consultation
This report explores how structural racism manifests itself in humanitarian, development and peace-building work, and envisions a decolonised system that is truly inclusive and responds to their needs.
What is Social Justice Investing?
An explanation of what it means when we talk about “social justice investing”. First, let’s look at each of those three words separately, then put them back together to show how Adasina integrates them to advance social justice beyond existing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) approaches.
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.
The 2020 Belonging Pledge – A Commitment to Advance Racial Equity
“We commit to discussing racial equity at our next investment committee meeting. We will move our agenda forward on this. We will share our next steps and results (perhaps privately), so that we can help to identify industry-wide barriers and the technical resources required to advance the practice of investing with a racial equity lens.” -Confluence Philanthropy
Sample Diversity and Representation Survey for Internal Staff
From Impact Assets: This sample survey was created by ImpactAssets for understanding the diversity and representation of their team, Investment Committee, and Board of Directors.