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.
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.
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.
Diversity in Investment: Enabling performance by unleashing talent in global capital markets through diversity
From the Investor Leadership Network: Committed to tracking progress and making an impact on sectors with an underrepresentation of diverse talent, the Diversity in Investment initiative aims to open opportunities for diverse talent in finance and investment worldwide and to increase the presence of diverse talent in investment and management roles in the financial industry.
Amplifying the "S" in ESG: Investor Myth Buster
From the Thomson Reuters Foundation: A new partnership, bringing together civil society, experts, and the private sector to emphasise the importance of the ‘social’ criteria within Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing.
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
Diversity in Action Roadmap
From ILPA: "The Diversity in Action initiative brings together limited partners and general partners who share a commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the private equity industry. The goal of the initiative is to motivate market participants to engage in the journey towards becoming more diverse and inclusive and to build momentum around the adoption of specific actions that advance DEI over time.”
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.”
Power, knowledge and courage: our experience with feminist evaluation
How Kore Global put three (out of many) feminist evaluation principles into practice in this evaluation: power sharing, multiple ways of knowing, and speaking truth to power.
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.
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.
Time to Decolonise Aid: Insights and lessons from a global consultation
This report explores how structural racism manifests itself in humanitarian, development and peace-building work, and envisions a decolonised system that is truly inclusive and responds to their needs.
Analysing and Measuring Social Inclusion in a Global Context
From the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the analytical and operational relevance of the measurement of poverty and social exclusion, and to describe how such measures could be put in place.
How to Measure Inclusion in the Workplace
From Harvard Business Review: In an era where companies are paying more and more attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), inclusion remains the most difficult metric to track. From new research, Gartner developed the Gartner Inclusion Index to measure what true inclusion looks like across an organization. The authors outline how to use the Gartner Inclusion Index to measure employee perceptions of inclusion, what effective action looks like from leaders, and common pitfalls to avoid.
SASB Standards Materiality Map
The SASB Materiality Map® is an interactive tool that identifies and compares disclosure topics across different industries and sectors.
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.