Equality Impact Investing

You might be interested in this short and timely read in our EII knowledge hub. @equalitytrust Structural Inequalities Alliance helps us recognise structural inequality - https://buff.ly/3AdwFNg - offers some causes and effects and principles to mitigate it. And for those looking for everyday practical investment strategies that social and impact investors can use to tackle this structural inequality, a reminder of our EII toolkit if you've not dug into it already. The 5 EII investment strategies are: + Capital to marginalised entrepreneurs + Target ventures with good equality and diversity practice + Target inequality mitigating organisations + Target equality transformative organisations + Improve investors own make up and practice Loads of detail on each together with examples of investors applying this in practice are here - https://buff.ly/3rO4UEK

Are you using investment to tackle inequality? Are you working on an equality investing tool that could benefit other funders? Whether it’s a practice, process, research or data, there may be many others that could learn from it. Share it on our Knowledge Hub. Nearly any format is fine – web links, case studies, reports, policy documents, application forms, comms strategies or assessment criteria. Don’t delay - upload it here 👇👇👇 https://buff.ly/45KoQKW 🙏 Explore over 80 EII Knowledge Hub resources others have shared here - https://buff.ly/3lIYC6s #equalityimpact #impinv

How are power imbalances reflected in investment terms and legal processes in impact investing? “Security and charges over buildings[... these are] very often wielded disproportionately which means organisations cannot use that to support wider finance needs down the line” - change-making organisation with investee experience. Learn more in our EDT report on Investee Perceptions of Power Dynamics in Legal Processes 👇 https://buff.ly/3WmlbA0 #socialchange #social investment #equalityimpact

How are power imbalances reflected in investment terms and legal processes in impact investing? “I think the investor/investee engagement isn’t where it should be. Better to have a relationship that is also focused on what the future looks like[...] If they asked us things like, where are you trying to head towards? All those kinds of basic strategic conversations. So, I’d say they need to work on a clear engagement strategy” - change-making organisation with investee experience. Learn more in EDT report on Investee Perceptions of Power Dynamics in Legal Processes 👇 https://buff.ly/3WmlbA0 #socialchange #social investment #equalityimpact

📢 Calling on all organisations supporting women and girls 📢 Rosa Fund, the UK Fund for Women and Girls wants YOU to have your say! They are running a large-scale survey to understand more about the current issues that affect the sector and the women and girls it supports. They want to learn what the future of the women and girls sector might look like and what the opportunities and challenges might be. The results of the survey will help them to understand more about the sector and what it needs to be sustainable. It will provide essential information on funding, staffing and volunteers, demand and wider sector concerns. The survey takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete and you can pause it at any time and come back to it. ➡ Take the survey: https://bit.ly/3KQ3SAs 📅 Closing date: 24 July 2024

Funding, Power and Participatory Grantmaking. Watch the replay here: https://lnkd.in/eQZNvvWB Delivered in partnership with: Reos Partners Impact on Urban Health #grantmaking #participatorygrantmaking #systemicchange #blackbritish #urbanhealth #health #ukfunding #theubeleinitiative

🗣️ We want the priorities of people with direct experience of the economic injustice of poverty to be reflected in the government institutions and organisations seeking to address it. Those who create knowledge hold power. People most impacted by poverty are largely excluded from taking part in knowledge creation efforts that underpin social change work; from having a say on what the most important issues to address are, to having the opportunity to work up solutions alongside these issues. At JRF, we are developing a knowledge bank that captures the areas deemed most important to address as prioritised by those affected by the economic injustice of poverty. Working with GMCVO and GMPA we are collecting examples of robust participatory and power sharing work. We’re pulling out key themes that we hope will be useful to government, funders, poverty organisations, community people led organisations and the wider sector to draw on in their work. 🤔 We’re keen to find out: - How much robust, deep power sharing work exists in poverty related social change efforts. - What the barriers are to working in more in-depth ways with people affected by the injustice of poverty. - Whether the priority areas of those directly affected by poverty are sufficiently reflected in social change initiatives and if not, why not. This is part of a wider theme of work which we are developing that advocates that the ‘how’ of any social change work is as important as the what. We will be looking at the deep systemic barriers to more inclusive ways of working and we are interested in hearing from others out there who are also thinking about this in a deeper way. 🔎 Find out more in this blog from Sarah Campbell: https://lnkd.in/gKqTYnH5

How are power imbalances reflected in investment terms and legal processes in impact investing? Some investees can feel restricted by their lack of legal experience (and their inability to afford independent legal support) to negotiate or push back: “you don’t feel you have power when that document lands [...] I think, that’s what the experts are giving me, okay that’s how it is otherwise I’m in trouble” - change-making organisation with investee experience. Read more in EDT report on Investee Perceptions of Power Dynamics in Legal Processes https://buff.ly/3WmlbA0 #socialchange #social investment #equalityimpact

"The event was filled with hope and provided a safe space for curiosity about looking beyond diversity." The first event of the Home Truths 2 Race Equity Series, 'How to Look Beyond Diversity', was a huge success. Over 85 attendees learnt about the shortfalls of 'diversity', whilst aiming for more transformative anti-racist structures within their organisations. Read our blog for the key takeaways 👇 https://lnkd.in/e6q5Skem Our next RES session in association with ACEVO will take place on Thursday 11th July on the topic of ‘Reporting and Responding to Ethnic Pay Gaps’. Book your free place! 👉 https://bit.ly/4ellx0s

How can centering lived-experience leadership promote equitable systems change? The Black Systemic Safety Fund was a social lab that explored exactly that, through a social lab and participatory grantmaking process. Join us for our two upcoming webinars as we share key learnings, outcomes and insights from this unique process. The webinars follow a social lab process that took place between 2022-2023, called The Black Systemic Safety Fund. Jointly organised by Reos Partners, The Ubele Initiative and Impact on Urban Health, it’ll be truly insightful, particularly around the topics of Black-led systems change, and participatory grantmaking. Speakers include Michael Hamilton FRSA Professor Patrick Vernon OBE FrHistS Yannick Wassmer and Radhika Bynon Register for the webinars, using the links below: ⚖️ Black Led Systems Change to Accelerate Equitable Outcomes | 27th June 2024, 4:30pm (BST), 5:30pm (CEST) | Register here: https://lnkd.in/exjt5NAV 💸 Funding, Power and Participatory Grantmaking | 4th July 2024, 10:00am (BST), 11:00am (CEST) | Register here: https://lnkd.in/efjRRQDV Participants are welcome to attend both of the webinars above, but separate registration is required using the links above. #systemicchange #webinar #leadership #grantmaking #blackled