Short Overview of the Women Effect Investments Initiative
Need a quick snapshot of what we’re working on at Women Effect Investments? This brief overview will explain the issues behind Gender Lens Investing, our initiatives at WEI to date, program partners,...
View ArticleOxfam: Systems, power, and agency in marketbased approaches to poverty
Market-based approaches (MBAs) have become an increasingly vital area for anti-poverty development work, spurring a wide range of new actors, partnerships, and initiatives. This paper reviews some of...
View ArticlePerspectives on Shaping Market Systems
Joy Anderson - Founder & President of Criterion Institute - was one of the early leaders in the world of impact investing and social ventures. Increasingly convinced of the importance of social...
View ArticleLeverage Points: Places to Intervene in Systems
This pieces by Donella Meadows has been an extremely valuable tool across all of Criterion's market shaping initiatives. It explores the levers at our disposal for systemic change and assesses their...
View ArticleShaping Market Systems – Our First Dialogue
We launched the Leaders Shaping Markets initiative in 2012 and began by identifying the initial set of Community of Practice members. This group came together in Berkeley in May of 2012. Thanks to the...
View ArticleProject Overview: Case Studies on Shaping Market Systems
A collaborative effort with leading universities to produce a series of case studies examining projects and efforts that have shaped market systems. Each study will explore an effort that had a...
View ArticleShaping Market Systems Tool Kit (DRAFT)
At SOCAP 2012, systems change was on the main stage! And on panels and in a design session facilitated by Joy Anderson. The following set of cards was used as a tool for facilitating a session for a...
View ArticleA Panel Discussion with Root Capital and Calvert Foundation on Gender Lens...
In May of 2012, Root Capital and the Calvert Foundation joined a panel moderated by Jackie VanderBrug to discuss their experiences of incorporating a gender lens. Each organization now has a very clear...
View ArticleOverview of 1K Churches Project
Description of the 1K Churches Project and Ways to Get Involved
View ArticleFinance Innovation Lab Systemic Market Change Strategy
The Finance Innovation Lab is a UK based organization designed to inspire profound change in the financial system. It is an organization remarkably well-aligned with the thinking within the Leaders...
View ArticleThe Market Facilitation Initiative
The Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI) is a working group of the SEEP Network, with the technical support of Practical Action. “The MaFI-festo synthesizes ideas, needs and experiences that MaFI...
View ArticleM&E in Market Systems
Changes in markets must be monitored and measured using approaches that embrace their dynamic and unpredictable nature. Advances in complexity sciences can provide useful principles and concepts to...
View ArticleDOEN Foundation: Green & Inclusive Economy Resources
The DOEN Foundation’s Green & Inclusive Economy Project aims to contribute to the transition a green and inclusive economy where entrepreneurs (social and sustainable) contribute demonstrable and...
View ArticleWomen’s Initiative Newsroom
Women’s Initiative assists high-potential low-income women who dream of business ownership. They have a number of their own publications on their website: Job Creation through Microenterprise...
View ArticleTEDx Marc Ventresca –“Don’t be an Entrepreneur, Build Systems”
How does innovation happen? Economic and organizational sociologist Marc Ventresca approaches the world as a series of ethnographic encounters, seeing the microdynamics in big institutional...
View ArticleGender Lens Investing & Women Effect 2 pager
Gender Lens Investing and Women Effect 2 Pager (May 2013)
View ArticleOn Changing the Market Ecosystem_Monitor Institute
This is the fifth post in a series published by Stanford Social Innovation Review. In our last post we took a close look at how UNCF found its new north star, as an example of what social innovation...
View ArticleGreat Resources to Help You Understand Women Effect Investments
We have compiled great articles to help your understanding of gender lens investing. Goldman Sachs – Power of Purse As women gain more bargaining and consumer power, the way of household spending has...
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