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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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).

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