Financing patience: Movements, markets and the long game

📯 Criterion Institute Podcast: Financing patience. Host Joy Anderson explores the surprising parallels between funding social movements and financing market formation companies. Joy speaks with Katharina Samara-Wickrama and Medina Haeri about what movement funding really requires: patient, long‑term investment; flexible core support instead of short‑term project grants; and a commitment to relationship‑building and collective strategy.

Episode Highlights

• 00:00 Funding Movements and Market Formation
• 10:05 The Role of Patience in Funding Movements
• 19:54 Building Relationships Across Sectors
• 30:09 Innovative Finance and Movement Collaboration

Relevant Links

• Subscribe to the podcast.
• Criterion Institute website and LinkedIn
• Joy’s LinkedIn
• Medina’s LinkedIn
• Katharina’s LinkedIn