The XX Factor: The Five Dimensions of Women’s Lives
After examining existing frameworks that guide donors to make the most impact on women’s lives, CHIP synthesizes a new framework that considers key areas of overlap and evidence of what dimensions of women’s lives matter. Read more about the five dimensions of women’s lives in our framework and learn how to apply them to your philanthropic and funding strategies in our guidebook and other publications. .
The XX Factor Framework
One of the most powerful ways to create social impact on a global scale is to improve the lives of women and girls. CHIP offers a comprehensive, five-dimensional framework to guide funders in identifying key areas of intervention and measuring progress.
The XX Factor Guidebook
The XX Factor Guidebook: How to Align Financial Investments to Improve the Lives of Women & Girls utilizes CHIP’s five-dimensional framework to help funders align their investment portfolios with improving the lives of women and girls.
Women's Index
In the Women’s Index, CHIP worked in collaboration with Women of the World Endowment to conduct research and analysis of social impact indicators to inform investment with a gender focus within the sovereign debt space.
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Launching the Women’s Index
On May 3, 2021, CHIP launched the Women’s Index: Developing a Tool for Aligning Financial Investments with Gender Equity. This report was created in partnership between CHIP and Women of the World Endowment (WoWE), the first 100% mission aligned endowment investing in women.
Ruth Shaber (Tara Health Foundation) and Tea Trumbic (World Bank) joined Kat Rosqueta (CHIP) and Maria Skuratovskaya (WoWE) to discuss the research, the need, and implications of an index to score sovereign debt investments according to support for the five dimensions of women’s lives.
Blogs
“The XX Factor” featured in Forbes
The Ideas to Actions: Accelerating Gender Lens Investing conference, hosted by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Tara Health Foundation, brought together industry leaders…
Investing for Impact: Using a Gender Lens in Public Equity
Updated 2/24/2017 Impact investments are investments made with the goal of both a financial and a social return. In this series, we will be…
This Year, Invest in Women & Girls
Investing in women & girls has immense potential for positive social change– not just for them, but also for their families and communities. Here…