Adasina Social Justice Investment Criteria
The data-driven set of standards that guides Adasina's investment strategies to reflect social justice values and advance progressive movements for change.
How Can Investors Help Confront Racial Injustice?
This impact brief from Zevin Asset Management is an update of their original call to action and a review of their continuing work to build an awareness of racial justice into investment — both as an analytical lens and an economic reality. Doing so helps to protect the value of their portfolios and channel their clients’ voices to help create positive change.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Investment Policy Statement
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Investment Policy Statement
Narrowing the Gap: Why Long-Term Investors and Corporate Leaders Should View Addressing Economic Inequality and Improving Diversity as Critical Forms of Risk Management
From Ariel Investments: This paper is designed to help investors understand the urgent need to address economic inequality and provide corporate leadership teams practical steps to drive change within their companies and for society at large. Drawing on Ariel Investment’s work with the Black Corporate Directors Conference, the authors outline actions relating to people, purchasing, and philanthropy that companies can take to leverage corporate influence.
Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual
Racial Equity Plans are both a process and a product. A successful process will build staff capacity which can be valuable during implementation. A process can also serve to familiarize more staff with the jurisdiction’s racial equity vision and its theory of change. This manual from GARE provides guidance for local governments to develop their own Racial Equity Action Plans after a period of research and information gathering. This manual also provides guidance and tools to conduct this research.
Racial Equity: Foundational Concepts
If you're early in your journey of exploring the links between racial equity and impact investing, a useful place to start is by understanding core concepts behind racial equity and how it differs from concepts such as diversity and inclusion. To help you get started, Mission Investors Exchange has compiled a brief list of frequently used terms, synthesized from the resources of leading educators.
Racial Equity Tools Glossary
Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. Even the most frequently used words in any discussion on race can easily cause confusion, which leads to controversy and hostility. It is essential to achieve some degree of shared understanding, particularly when using the most common terms. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.
Impact Investing in the Indigenous Context: A Scan of the Canadian Marketplace
Indigenous issues remain at the forefront of Canadian policy, with many communities still lacking the necessary infrastructure and services related to water, education, economic development, and health. While these issues have traditionally been targeted by government, non-profits and charities, we believe that impact investors can play a role as well. This report seeks to answer a crucial question that has been under-examined in the Canadian impact investment market: What is being done by impact investors, and how can the sector contribute to the betterment of Indigenous communities in Canada? How will the emergence of new intermediaries shape the Indigenous Finance landscape over the next decade?
Inclusive Resilience in South Asia
The World Bank’s South Asia team has developed project specific social inclusion action plans that include a set of recommendations outlining feasible entry points for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) projects across a variety of DRM topics to more inclusively address the needs of excluded populations. The menu of actions will keep growing as we learn more. This project aims to elevate innovative solutions and the emerging best practices from the local, regional and international levels on inclusion in disaster contexts. This platform aims to highlight the truly resilient society that DRM and Social Development practitioners are building and scaling across the South Asia region.
The Diversity Forum
From The Diversity Forum: The Diversity Forum is a collective on a mission to drive inclusive social investment in the UK, through the convening of sector-wide groups, commissioning research, and knowledge sharing. Their report, published in January 2019, found that only 2.8% of directors in the social investment sector were women of ethnic minority backgrounds, and almost one in five directors in the sector had attended Oxford and Cambridge universities. There is urgency to change this to ensure that we represent the people we seek to serve, as well as to uncover new opportunities.