These deeply-researched roadmaps articulate in-depth strategies for how asset owners, asset managers, and nonprofit organizations can mobilize capital towards GBV. Investors and funders can partner with Criterion to amplify these strategies via events, tools, and communications to move actors from intent to action.
Criterion’s work is about expanding what investors, governments, and civil society organizations see as possible for using finance to create transformative social change. Explore our resources based on the specific types of audiences they were intended to support.
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.
This portfolio of insights was written to encourage different ways of seeing grassroots girls’ soccer from an investment perspective.
Fòs Feminista (Fòs) is a feminist asset owner and intermediary building financial infrastructure that shifts power and facilitates mission-aligned capital flows.
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.
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.
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us achieve our mission.
