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Designing for Currency Risk and the Architecture of Cross-Border Social Finance
July 20, 2026
Currency risk is not an unavoidable feature of cross-border finance but a design choice, and funders can use existing tools to shift that burden away from local organizations and toward those better equipped to manage it.
Advanced practices in local capital design: Trade Lenda
July 7, 2026
In West Africa, Trade Lenda’s approach confirms that there are financial actors willing to understand and work within informal systems. This case study explores Trade Lenda’s advanced practices in localization in more detail.
This guide is designed to help women’s rights organizations (WROs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and other mission-driven groups understand innovative finance and engage more confidently in conversations about finance, funding, and investment.
Fòs Feminista: Building Feminist Financial Infrastructure
May 21, 2026
Fòs Feminista (Fòs) is a feminist asset owner and intermediary building financial infrastructure that shifts power and facilitates mission-aligned capital flows.
Advanced practices in gender lens investing: FrontEnd Ventures
May 14, 2026
We spotlight FrontEnd Ventures as a demonstration of how the design of an investment thesis through a fundamental gender and power analysis can shift power in finance.
Criterion develops a set of reframes that give us a way to move from understanding the system to actively shaping it, building the intermediation and infrastructure needed for more lasting, aligned flows of capital.
Framework for financing the prevention of gender-based violence
March 23, 2026
This framework for financing the prevention of gender-based violence offers a shared way of understanding how financial systems themselves shape the conditions in which gender‑based violence persists. It translates established GBV prevention logic into a form that is legible and usable by financial decision‑makers, while remaining grounded in the realities of GBV work.
Advanced practices in gender lens investing: Sahel Capital
February 11, 2026
If we are to advance gender equality and social justice through finance, it is not enough to increase representation or move more capital. We must also address the underlying ways in which power, privilege, and bias operate in financial systems.