TOOLKIT Workshop: Using Finance as a Tool for Social Change - April 2026

Criterion is a nonprofit think tank that works with social change-makers to demystify finance and broaden their perspective on how to engage with, and shift financial systems. Over the last 15 years Criterion has done this through a methodology and set of practices that move leaders beyond understanding finance to believing in their own ability use financial systems to advance the social change we seek.Criterion is working towards a future where the power of our financial systems is widely used for social good.

CRITERION INSTITUTE

Join Criterion Institute as we take a deep dive into our special designed TOOLKIT training “Using Finance as a Tool for Social Change".

Criterion Institute invites you to join us for our signature TOOLKIT workshop designed to help you explore possibilities of how you might use systems of finance as a tool to advance gender equality and social justice goals. The workshop will introduce participants to the terminology of finance, familiarize them with the logic of finance, and uncover leverage points and opportunities to influence the system. Regardless of your starting place, experience, or comfort with finance you will find that the TOOLKIT workshop creates a much-needed bridge between the worlds of finance and social change.While financial systems have in many ways been designed and used by a capitalist, colonialist, and patriarchal system to reinforce injustice and inequality, Criterion’s report “Fostering a Feminist Financial Imagination: A Radical Conversation about Finance, Feminist Futures, and Transformative Change” is premised on the idea that we can change that. It posits that if we allow ourselves and others to believe that unjust systems are entrenched and unchangeable, we cede too much power to those defending a status quo that fundamentally is not working for too many people around the world.Criterion Institute is a nonprofit think tank dedicated to expanding what is seen as possible for using finance to create transformative social change. Criterion has spent the past two decades working with partners to design financial solutions to advance social justice, gender equality, and economic development goals. Our work is about challenging and changing the power dynamics in using finance for social change. We seek to transform whose voices are heard, whose expertise is valued, and whose metrics define success.

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