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)
Is unconscious bias training still worthwhile?
Training can raise people’s awareness of their unconscious biases, but evidence shows that training alone is not effective in changing behaviour. The UK government has already decided to discontinue this kind of programme in its various departments. Frederick Herbert writes that while it is generally accepted that awareness is not a sufficient condition for behavioural change, it is usually necessary. He argues that unconscious bias training can be re-thought of as a foundation upon which other interventions can build.
Breaking barriers: Unconscious gender bias in the workplace
This research note provides a review of unconscious gender bias and its role in impeding women’s career advancement before discussing how to mitigate and overcome unconscious gender bias in the workplace.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The REAL: Equity Assessment Framework
Adapted from Advancing the Mission Toolkit, Annie E. Casey Foundation, this learning continuum for race focused work summarising different places an organisation my amove to or land wiht regard to race/ethnicity focused work.
Adasina Social Justice Investment Framework
Together with communities most impacted by racial, gender, economic, and climate inequities, Adasina provides a range of impact solutions for individuals, institutions, and financial advisors with social justice values.
Morgan Stanley’s Racial Equity Toolkit
This guide from Morgan Stanley seeks to provide an actionable framework for investors to understand the risks and financial impact associated with perpetuating racial inequality, and to identify ways to allocate capital toward opportunities to promote racial justice.
Equality Impact Investing Toolkit
This guide is meant to help users understand equality impact investing (EII), by explaining the definition, key premises and principles.
Meyer's DEI Spectrum Tool
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Spectrum Tool was created to help organizations assess where they are on their DEI journey and to identify potential areas for future work. It is also intended to provide shared language to help Meyer staff and nonprofits talk together about what DEI currently looks like in an applicant's organization and opportunities for growth.
Anti-Racist Organisational Assessment Rubric
From the National Juvenile Justice Network, this rubric supports those organisations committed to engaging in self-analyses to reflect on how their organisation can better undo the systemic racism in society.
GIIN Navigating Impact Project Racial Equity Theme and Framework
The Navigating Impact Project is where the GIIN, together with experts in different investment themes, identify best practices, research, and recommended metrics for each investment theme. The Strategic Goal of Racial Equity includes a research-based overview of the problem and how investments can work toward solutions, an evidence map, a starter kit of metrics that are shown to indicate progress toward that strategic goal, and curated resources that can help practitioners measure and manage their impact most effectively.
SEAF’s Gender Equality Scorecard©
SEAF uses its Gender Equality Scorecard© to assess women’s economic empowerment and gender equality within investment opportunities and portfolio companies. As a foundational gender lens investing framework, a JEDI lens can be layered on top.