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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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.

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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