Elevar Equity, LeapFrog Investments, Collaborative Fund, Obvious Ventures and Renewal Funds all invest broadly in GoodBusiness.
The leadership lessons that I learned from Bonnie Allen's example can serve as a practical guide for advancing equity, building collaborative partnerships, and taking strategic action to make justice a lived reality for all.
Collaborative equity investment at Early Phase.
Data obtained by the Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE) puts a number on the problem, at least for chemistry: Members of these groups account for just 4% of tenure-track chemistry faculty members at the top 50 chemistry departments in the United States, as measured by how much they've spent on chemistry research.
The Collaborative, therefore, incorporated equity into both the outcome and impact components of its conceptual framework.
When done well, short-term electives can also contribute to greater global health equity by supporting long-term collaborative efforts [ 14].
Global health emphasizes the central importance of health equity and the need for interdisciplinary collaborative actions to address health inequities [ 8].
Available documentation describes a process in which health and health equity are incorporated into policies in a collaborative and iterative fashion.
Such interventions would require collaborative and continued monitoring of equity, documenting of good lessons emerging from implementation of vertical programmes packaged and disseminated regularly for governance and policy responses and interventions.
For example, a collaborative effort with the European Union, the EQUITAP (Equity in Asia-Pacific Health Systems) project assessed equity in health financing and delivery in 15 Asia-Pacific countries (van Doorslaer et al., 2007).
The issues each worked on served as jumping-off points for larger conversations about justice and equity--and ultimately, they hoped, for collaborative actions meant to benefit all of their communities.
