Video: Understanding Gender and Finance in the Pacific

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Video: Understanding Gender and Finance in the Pacific

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A Blueprint for Grassroots Organizations on Using Finance for Social Change

August 31, 2022

The Blueprint is a document about social change, written for change makers. The focus of the Blueprint is to show how individuals working within grassroots organizations can use finance as a tool in their work

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Localization-2

Pillars of Our Strategic Plan

Invite Financial Imagination-1

Gender Lens Investing-1

Local Civil Society-1

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Translation Function-1

Faith and Finance: One Pastor’s Reflections

August 30, 2022

Meet Rev. Philip Waite, a new friend of Criterion Institute, who has a passion for connecting faith and finance to do God’s work in the world. Rev. Waite is pastoral team leader of College Mennonite Church on the campus of Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.

Faith-Based

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1K Churches-1

National Organizations-2

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United States-1

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Short Reflection-1

Congregational Stories: Relationships and Microlending's Best Dividend

August 30, 2022

Now in our third year of interest-free lending to small businesses in greater Austin, University United Methodist’s most valuable “dividend” is our relationships with our neighbors providing the “sweat equity” to start or grow those businesses.

Faith-Based-1

National Organizations-2

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1K Churches-1

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United States-1

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Short Reflection-1

Hope and Grace Abound

August 31, 2022

Hope was the first word spoken. Members of the 1K Churches team at Napa Valley Lutheran Church (Napa, California) had been asked to use one word to express what they were feeling now -- four years since they first began with the Bible study.

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National Organizations-2

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1K Churches-2

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United States-2

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Short Reflection-2

Transforming Power

August 30, 2023

In God’s economy, members of the human family work together for the common good – producing, growing, building, trading, serving and caring for one another.

Faith-Based

National Organizations-2

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1K Churches-2

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United States-2

Reframes

Analyze power, not identity-1

Using tools of finance to address domestic violence against women in the Pacific

August 31, 2022

Suva, Fiji — How can finance be a tool for social change? Fifteen women’s rights leaders wrestled with this question on a floating restaurant outside of Fiji’s capital city.

Gender Lens Investing-2

Donor Agencies

Multilateral Agencies

Local Civil Society

Private Investors

Implementing A Gender Strategy: Grand Challenges Canada's Story

August 31, 2022

Following four years of engagement with Grand Challenges Canada, an initiative funded by the Canadian government, Criterion is excited to share insights and learning in "Implementing Grand Challenges Canada's Gender Strategy.

Gender Lens Investing-1

Donor Agencies-2

National Organizations-2

ALL Investors-1

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Canada

Reflection: Gender Lens Investing Field-Building Event in Jakarta

August 31, 2022

This re-cap of the gender lens investing field-building event hosted in February by Investing in Women partners was contributed by ANGIN (Angel Investment Network Indonesia).

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Translation Function-1

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Localization

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South East Asia

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Short Reflection

Pillars of Our Strategic Plan

Shift Narratives in innovative finance

Congregational Stories: Lending, Learning, Leading

August 31, 2022

More than two years ago, The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) in Ruxton, Maryland, launched its Micro-Lending Program. To date they have made 11 loans totaling $34,750. How did they do it?

Faith-Based

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1K Churches-1

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Localization-2

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United States-1

Reframes

Outcomes come from changing practice, not just naming intent. Its not just about how much money moves, its about HOW MONEY MOVES-2

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