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.
On June 24 2024, Joy Anderson, Founder and President of Criterion Institute, was recognized with the prestigious Joan Bavaria Award alongside Suzanne Biegel and Jackie VanderBrug for their groundbreaking contributions to gender lens investing.
As GBV can proliferate in complex emergencies, it can also exacerbate the risk of humanitarian conflict or crisis, disrupting states’ stability and economies writ large. This then threatens the stability of financial markets and financial forecasting.
Over the past three years, with support from the government of Canada, Criterion has been able to formalize a system of standards of practice.
1k Churches Bible Study Resources
In 2012, Criterion Institute launched the Leaders Shaping Markets initiative to build and support leaders who work on changing the rules of market systems.
In the fall of 2017, the Siebert Lutheran Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, invited Criterion Institute to consider the possibility of focusing its many resources for using finance for social change on a specific place, the greater Milwaukee area, and to do so in collaboration with local Lutheran congregations and leaders and other ecumenical partners.
Our work depends on an ever-expanding community of team members, advisors, donors, and other partners who help us achieve our mission.