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.

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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

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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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Impact Management Project (IMP) Glossary

A comprehensive impact management glossary with hundreds of terms and counting. When it comes to managing impact, many terms mean different things to different people, or different words are often used to mean the same thing. This glossary attempts to clarify the similarities and differences in language usage among a number of impact-focused disciplines that often interact.

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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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Due Diligence 2.0

Due Diligence 2.0 aim to catalyze movement of capital to BIPOC managers, the signatory asset owners, consultants, and financial intermediaries, on behalf of asset owners who value BIPOC manager inclusion, commit to making these specified shifts in their due diligence processes.

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