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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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