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Tackling power imbalance between funders and the change-makers they support, one deal term at a time
Equality impact pioneer EIIP and leading UK impact law firm Bates Wells today co-launch the Equalising Deal Terms Key Investor Principles (the EDT Principles), which aim to address power imbalances between impact investors and their investees arising from current practices relating to investment terms, legal documents and processes.
Advancing Equality and Human Rights through Investment and Procurement
Equally Ours' Head of Enterprise Development Programme Tanishtha SenGupta outlines how EO are tackling root causes of inequality and rights abuse and not just the symptoms.
Introducing the Equalising Deal Terms project
By Sung-Hyui Park, Bates Wells
To what extent do impact investment terms replicate forms of power, privilege and control that are poorly aligned with mutual trust, respect, and collaborative partnership? Given this, how can investment terms, legal documentation and processes within impact investing better embed the principles and values of equality?
Can funders tackle the root causes of inequalities and systemic change?
By Paulina Kowalke, Social Tech Trust Programme Manager & Chris Blues, Social Tech Trust Programmes Director
Over the last 6 months we have been holding some key questions – how can the Social Tech Trust, as an impact investor, identify and support ventures that truly foster equality transformation?
Latest EIIP training - Leading Equality Impact Investing: From Principles to Practice
The Equality Impact Investing Project welcomed over 50 senior execs and equalities managers on their latest course: Leading Equality Impact Investing: From Principles to Practice (LEIIP).
Equality impact & DEI: what’s the difference?
By Rana Zincir Celal, EIIP Co Director
Addressing inequality needs more than Diversity, Equity & Inclusion policies. With interest growing in equality impact investing (EII), investors are realising the need to embed new skills and knowledge within their organisations to drive forward the EII agenda.
‘You can’t change what you can’t measure’
By Ceri Goddard, EIIP Director
EIIP Roundtable’s on equality impact measurement identified a need for more guidance in the here and now and a radical shift of emphasis in future practice.
Investors asked to reimagine impact measurement to capture real-world equality impact
EIIP is to convene strategic actors from both investing and equality and human rights to explore where impact management practices need to be further developed to advance equality, and how EIIP and others can progress this.
The Impact Investing Sector Needs Renewed Professional Standards to Enable Equality Impact
By Rana Zincir Celal, EIIP Co Director
With interest growing in equality impact investing (EII), investors are realising the need to embed new skills and knowledge within their organisations to drive forward the EII agenda.
Introducing the Task Force on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures (TIFD)
By Joanne Bauer, Rights CoLab and TIFD
Inspired by the successful uptake of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), a wide range of stakeholders from the Global North and Global South are collaborating to launch a Task Force on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures (TIFD).
New Connect Fund grant to extend EII activities and impact
By Ceri Goddard, EIIP Director
We are delighted to announce that the Connect Fund has agreed a two-year core grant towards further developing EIIP.
Two years of the Equality Enterprise Development Programme yields important successes and learning
By Aimee Dorsett-Brown, Equally Ours
The Enterprise Development Programme offers tailored support to civil society organisations looking to explore new models of trading or grow existing ones as a way to build up financial resilience, grow unrestricted funding and foster innovation across the charitable sector.
Announcing the EII toolkit
We're delighted to share our new Equality Impact Investing Toolkit, our introductory guide for social and impact investors on EII fundamentals and how to put them into practice.
Impact management and equality impact investing
By Dr Jess Daggers
EIIP is seeking to bridge two fields of practice: the field of impact investing, and the field of equality and human rights. Both of these fields have developed their own measurement practices and frameworks
Why funders must pledge to fund equitably
By Kevin Osborne, KO Management
I was optimistic about the possibility for change to the stark and urgent problem of only 2.4% of regular arts funding going to BAME* organisations when the BAME population is 14%. But as I plan to launch Create Equity’s campaign for arts funders to pledge to distribute their funding equitably within the next ten years, that optimism has waned.
Invitation for Expressions of Interest: Get involved with a new EIIP Project on Equalising Investment Terms
How can investment terms, legal documentation and processes within impact investing better embed the principles and values of equality? To what extent do investment terms replicate forms of control and power that are poorly aligned with trust and collaborative partnership?
Letting Go: Shifting Power in Impact Investing and Philanthropy
We’re pleased to share here a vibrant discussion at the book launch of Ben Wrobel and Meg Massey’s Letting Go: How Philanthropists and Impact Investors Can Do More Good By Giving Up Control hosted by Equality Impact Investing Project, Centre for Knowledge Equity and Big Society Capital (15 July).
How Ready are Impact Investors to Take on Inequality? What We’ve Learned so far from EIIP’s first training course
By EIIP Senior Associate Rana Zincir Celal
With the training materials from our very first EIIP training programme now available on our website, impact investors now have access to our full course content, covering both the theory and practice of equality impact investing.
Big Society Capital advancing EIIP recommendation to revise its outcomes matrix
A key recommendation of EIIP’s foundational research is that impact management and measurement (IMM) frameworks used within the impact investment sector need to be better aligned with equality and human rights considerations.
Levelling Up: How can we harness Equality Impact Investing to tackle inequality, within and between places?
Government has set out bold ambitions to close the gaps between which areas, and which groups, get a real chance to flourish in, and contribute to, our economy, society and culture. But what would a levelled up UK actually look like, and how can equality impact investing play an effective role?