Compared to the lives of men, little is known about the lives of the world’s women – how much time they spend on unpaid work, if they own land, if they can get credit, which programs meant to help them are succeeding.
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– “Women and girls are critical to finding sustainable solutions to the challenges of poverty, inequality and the recovery of the communities hardest hit by conflicts, disasters and displacements,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka in her message for International Women’s Day.
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Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh, founder and chair of BRAC, one of the world’s largest and most effective anti-poverty organizations, was honored as 2015 World Food Prize Laureate earlier this month. He built the success of BRAC on empowering women and girls.
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A new generation of women investors are wealthy, confident and keen on investments with a social dimension. To meet their needs, an ecosystem of female financial advisors, female social entrepreneurs and female-led venture capital firms and investing networks is growing fast.
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Socially conscious millennials are seeking more opportunities to put their money into impact, sustainable and socially beneficial investment strategies. To meet their demands, asset managers will have to hone their traditional skills — and learn some new ones.
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The world is crying out for a good education. It was the number one choice of respondants to the My World digital survey for the change that would make the most difference to their lives. And yet, despite global pledges to improve education access and affordablity, millions are stil denied the education that could transform their lives and their communities. What can the impact community do to redress the balance — and why aren’t they doing it now?
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High-profile individuals such as Livia Firth with her Green Carpet Challenge and Francine LeFrak, founder of Same Sky, help break the vicious circle of poverty, discrimination and marginalization through beautiful objects handcrafted by women for a market which can afford to help this change. Unsung heroines such as social entrepreneurs Adriana Marina of Animanà and Aissa Dione, a Senegalese textile designer, are further shining examples of the beauty of this new-found synergy. These businesswomen have brought hope and pride back to their own struggling communities with the highly successful manufacture of exquisite textile and other heritage crafts sold to top designers worldwide.
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Women’s financial empowerment has been a hot topic in recent months. There’s a definite (deserved) buzz around gender-lens investing and its potential to make more of impact capital. Yet, while the gender lens approach is an exciting step forward for women’s financial empowerment, it isn’t the whole story.
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UnitedSucces: When exploring the words“impact” and “empowerment” it is easy to overlook the true depth of meaning behind the potential for the words when you combine them! Exploring how women throughout the world can be positively affected so that they feel the true benefit of impactful empowerment it is important to explore why women don’t succeed or don’t proceed as fast as expected.
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Who are some of the leading organizations when it comes to gender lens investing? Where to look for sector opportunities and resources? What are some of the key investment vehicles specifically targeting women? See our review.
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Women Professionals: As impact moves into a consolidation phase, how can female impact finance professionals improve their performance and make more of a difference? We have compiled a list of seven practical steps women in impact could—and probably should—take to make the most of their professional lives.
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Good news for impact investing in Asia: The Role of Women Investors is changing, as more women become key contributors to Asia’s social capital markets.
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New Philanthropy: Financial advisor, philanthropist and women’s empowerment advocate Virginie Issumo gives her views on impact investing and the “new philanthropy”.
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Impact investors have an opportunity to support women-led businesses, but they often lack information and access to quality deals. Our latest deals from the Women’s Empowerment sector discuss where to look for opportunities.
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