Gender Lens Investing Resources
Books, Websites, and Key Reports
Feminine Capital, Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott
Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact, Jackie Vanderbrug
Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change, Morgan Simon
The Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism, Joel Solomon
”Sage Report: Tracking Venture Capital with a Gender Lens” by Suzanne Biegel, Sandra M. Hunt, Sherryl Kuhlman. Wharton Social Impact Initiative
Sage Report 2.0: Tracking Venture Capital with a Gender Lens”
Navigating Impact, Global Impact Investing Network
Project Rose, Veris Wealth Partners & The Women Effect
Power Moves, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
“Gender Lens Investing: Bending the Arc of Finance for Women and Girls,” Veris Wealth Partners
Leaders in the Field
Principal voices leading the conversations and mapping the field of gender lens investing
Joy Anderson, Criterion Institute
Suzanne Biegel, Catalyst at Large
Eve Ellis, Matterhorn Group
Tracy Gray, The 22 Fund and We Are Enough
Kristin Hull, Nia Global Fund
Kathleen McQuiggan, Artemis Financial Advisors
Nathalie Molina Niño, Brava Investments
Alison Pyott, Veris Wealth Partners
Monitoring and Indexing Leaders
These groups look at a variety of data points from representation of women on boards, executive management, and CEOs, whether a company has signed the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, and/or what the leadership is in the value chain of the company.
Calvert Women’s Principles - Calvert established the first Global Code of Corporate Conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing, and investing in women. Since then, others have joined in the work with varying levels of commitment to gender and impact screens along the value chain including…
The Women and Girls Equality Strategy at US Trust
Communities Convening to Discuss Gender Lens Investing
Investing and Angel Donor Communities
Groups that offer opportunities for women to gather and invest together while making early stage venture investments in women-led companies.
Golden Seeds is a fund that has grown to over 100 million and over 275 investors, giving women a seat at the table to hear pitches, make investments, and/or take a board seat
Women’s Angel Investing Network is led by women and financed by women angels and is the first investor network
Pipeline Angels offers trainings for first time investors and building communities of women learning together
Deborah Jackson and Andrea Turner Moffitt at Plum Alley are convening women to invest in opportunities that have already been vetted
Sallie Krawcheck and Charlie Kroll at Ellevest created a tool that women at all levels of their income learn about investing
Vicki Saunders and the activators practicing radical generosity at SheEO with $1,000 investments being pooled to fund women entrepreneurs
Funds Management Firms
These boutique funds do all of the above as well as mobilize shareholder engagement around companies’ policies.