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.
Intersectionality in Organizations: Why ‘Bringing Your Whole Self to Work’ is Not Sufficient
Today’s context, a historical understanding, and examples from the real world all have a role to play in understanding how to meaningfully prioritize people with multiple identities.
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.
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.
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.
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
Building the Social Justice Architecture for Impact Investing
By Millard Owens: “The proposed principles reflect therefore what I have heard directly from impact investors, and from themes emerging from more humane schools of economics and human development. In sum, they speak to establishing the appropriate role of capital in strong partnership with a well-functioning state and active citizenry.”
Community-Driven Systems Change
Community-driven systems change is an approach to development and social transformation that emphasizes the insight, leadership, and ownership of the people who are living and experiencing issues at the community level, and their work to create lasting change in the systems and root causes that underlie the critical issues they seek to address.
Increasing Inclusive Capital to Create Equitable Outcomes for Communities of Color
This resource includes an overview of the approach for achieving this Strategic Goal, supporting evidence, core metrics that help measure performance toward goals, and a curated list of resources to support collecting, reporting on, and using data for decision-making.
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.
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.
Adasina Social Capital Installment 6: Dismantling Systemic Barriers for Black Asset Managers
Part of a series of articles, in this installment, Rachel J. Robasciotti, Founder and CEO of Adasina Social Capital identifies systemic problems in due diligence process and proposes solutions.
Evaluating Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Due Diligence
From Alliance Global Advisors: Questions General Partners should address when it comes to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts within their organisations.
Guiding the Equality Fund's Investment Strategy Part 2 (From Playbook: Investing in Gender Equality)
Forming bridges amongst feminist activists and economists and allies with gender-lens investment expertise, part of a six-part blog series that explores why and how an investment program is an essential part of the Equality Fund’s work to shift power to women, youth, girls, and non-binary people around the world. Through the lens of six “P”s (Purpose, People and Partners, Perspectives, Process, Philosophy and Products), the Equality Fund shares their approach to gender-lens investing and illuminate the values, strategy, and structure that guide it.
Canadian Investor Statement on Diversity & Inclusion
From Responsible Investment Association Canada: Signatory investors encourage Canadian public companies to lead in global efforts to address systemic inequities by advancing diversity and inclusion efforts and enhancing transparency and accountability, as well as challenge their own institutions to advance diversity and inclusion of underrepresented individuals within their organisations.
Racial Equity Investing: The Time Is Now
This report from Cambridge Associates discusses the renewed sense of urgency around racial equity investing and puts forward three actions investors can take to address the inequities inherent in our society.