“But I’m not sure how that’s truly material.” This is a refrain we hear constantly when we talk to...
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Growing the Field: Finance and gender experts brought together in Indonesia
, Investors, News, Resources, Social Change LeadersJakarta, Indonesia, 2 February 2018 – Over 70 investors, business and finance leaders, and gender experts from Southeast Asia came...
Reflection: Gender Lens Investing Field-Building Event in Jakarta
, field-building, Gender, Investors, News, Resources, Social Change LeadersThis re-cap of the gender lens investing field-building event hosted in February by Investing in Women partners was contributed...
Reflection: Finance as a Tool to Address Gender-Based Violence Workshop, January 22-23, 2018
, Investors, News, Resources, Social Change LeadersThis was contributed by Nina Weissberg. Nina Weissberg, CEO of Weissberg Investment Corp (WIC), guides a diverse portfolio of long-term real...
More than two years ago, The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) in Ruxton, Maryland, launched its Micro-Lending Program....
Video: Why Develop an Investment Thesis?
, Gender, Investors, News, Resources, Social Change LeadersCriterion Institute’s Joy Anderson, Pacific RISE impact investing lead, shares why Pacific RISE is developing an investment thesis.
Pacific RISE will use gender lens investing to incorporate gender into financial analysis to improve investments and promote equitable...
This article by Criterion founder Joy Anderson shares some early lessons learned from developing an investment thesis for the Pacific, many of which are relevant to designing a gender lens investing strategy in other regions or sectors. Click below to read more on ImpactAlpha.
Bertha Nzabanita survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but her husband did not. As a single mother, she struggled to make do with the one coffee field and dilapidated house he had left her. Then Nzabanita discovered Musasa, a coffee cooperative that gave her and other widows from the genocide a stable market for their coffee allowing them to increase their income. Read more
A chronic issue presents material risks — and opportunities for prevention By Joy Anderson. Originally Posted on Impact Alpha //news.impactalpha.com/using-tools-of-finance-to-address-domestic-violence-against-women-in-the-pacific-21196816a487 Suva,...
Kerry Hannon writes for Forbes on the double payoff of gender lens investing after her interest was sparked reading Gender Lens...
USAID’s Patty Alleman, and our very own Joy Anderson co-authored a serious of blogs documenting their travels in Asia as they sought to...
Gender Lens Investing pervaded Socap12. We pulled together a team of Gender Lens Investing Champions – over 40 women...
During SOCAP12, the annual convening for the impact investing community, Joy Anderson sat down with reporter Lucy Soto of...
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