Financial Barriers for Women Entrepreneurs: A Global Perspective

Advancing Research and Investment Standards for Gender Equity (ARISE) Consortium announced an exciting funding opportunity for research on closing the gender gap in financing for entrepreneurs. Nearly 400 entrepreneurs across the globe submitted research proposals and over 30 organizations were shortlisted for in-depth interviews on their work. 

Reimagining gender lens investing futures: Possibilities and perspectives from the field

Reimagining gender lens investing futures is both a reflection on the field today and a hopeful vision for where it could go, grounded in the real work of field builders across geographies and sectors. These practitioners continue to defend gender’s continued relevance to finance in the face of resistance. They are also expanding its role, reimagining its potential as a tool for change, and building the infrastructure needed to sustain that change over the next decade.

Advisory Board Welcome

This Welcome Video is for New Advisory Board Members Only

Advisory Boards at Criterion: Roles and Responsibilities

Innovative Finance with Coralus

This report presents the activities, outputs and outcomes of a joint initiative between Coralus and Criterion Institute, two organizations that are innovating finance for social good. The initiative broughttogether 45 contributors from Coralus and 15 experts from Criterion to explore how to design and implement financial models that support women and non-binary entrepreneurs in diverse and inclusive ways.

Reimagining resourcing for feminist movements: What’s possible?

Criterion Institute and the Equality Fund explored these ideas in a recent webinar featuring Yifat Susskind, Executive Director of Madre, Joy Anderson, Co-founder of Criterion Institute, and Kat Im-Jenkins, Managing Director of the Equality Fund.

Criterion Compensation Structure

On 1 January 2023, the Criterion Institute released a new compensation structure for employees and contractors, aiming to create transparency in compensation throughout the entire organization. The new structure was aimed at supporting the diverse workforce drawn from a variety of backgrounds across the globe and to support continued pay equity across this workforce. Based on a lockstep model of equal pay for equal experience and roles, the compensation model removes all secrecy from pay structures.

Endowments as a Tool for Transformative Change

Criterion has created this briefing to support civil society actors, donors, and others to analyze and identify how endowments might enable the use of systems of finance as formidable tools to bring about social change and advance social justice.

5 Companies That Illustrate the Possibilities for Eradicating Gender-Based Violence