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

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