boston gender lens investing panel
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Women Effect Investments Initiative
Bringing a Gender Lens to Investing
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Agenda
Why Invest in Women?
Social Investing
Gender Lenses
Gender Lens Investing Ecosystem
What Can You Do?
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Agenda
Why Invest in Women?
Social Investing
Gender Lenses
Gender Lens Investing Ecosystem
What Can You Do?
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Goldman Sachs
World Bank
Nike Foundation
Hillary Clinton
100 Years, 100 Women
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Agenda
Why Invest in Women?
Social Investing
Gender Lenses
Gender Lens Investing Ecosystem
What Can You Do?
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Global Assets Under Management Socially-Oriented Investments
Socially-OrientedInvestments
Screens: $6.99 T
Philanthropy: $.33 T
Impact Investing $.5 T
Impact Investing: Magnitude
$50 T
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Social Investing
Social investments seek to generate both financial returns for investors and social
returns that benefit broader society
SocialReturns
FinancialReturns
Low
High
High
Philanthropists:Maximizing social returns
Social Investors:Blended Value Social and financialreturns
Investors:Maximizing profit
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ActiveOwnershipStrategies
Screening GuaranteesImpact First
Investments
FinancialFirst
Investments
Source: Godeke and Pomares, Solutions for Impact Investors, RockefellerPhilanthropy Advisors, 2009.
Impact Investing: Tools & Tactics
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Agenda
Why Invest in Women?
Social Investing
Gender Lenses
Gender Lens Investing Ecosystem
What Can You Do?
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Women Effect Investments (WEI)
Women Effect Investments is a field-building initiative that seeks to mobilize more
investment dollars toward improving the condition ofwomen and girls worldwide
Mobilizing women investors and
investment capital towards generating the
Women Effect through investment
Strengthening and creating new
investment opportunities with a gender
lens across a diverse set of financial
intermediaries (funds and other vehicles)
When women are economic agents and leaders, social change accelerates and returns
multiply This is the WOMEN EFFECT
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3 Gender Lenses
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Access to
CapitalWorkplaceEquity
Products
& Services
A gender lens serves as a viewfinder for investment opportunities
both fromimpact and financial return perspectives
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Workplace Equity
Workplace
Equity
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Products & Services
Products
& Services
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Access to Capital
Access to Capital
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Agenda
Why Invest in Women?
Social Investing
Gender Lenses
Gender Lens Investing Ecosystem
What Can You Do?
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The GENDER & INVESTING ECOSYSTEM
A growing number of investors, funds and support organizations are recognizing
the importance and potential of a gender lens
Investment Vehicles Investor Groups
Supporting Networks Supporting Organizations
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Emerging Vehicles
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Why Invest in Women?
Social Investing
Gender Lenses
Gender Lens Investing Ecosystem
What Can You Do?
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What Can YOU Do?VOICE:The questions you ask
Make some noise
Advocacy
#GenderLensInv
LEARNING:Gender Lens Investing Forum
Ecosystem Calls
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What Else Can You Do?
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Beyond investing,
Beyond educating yourself and others,
There are lots of ways to support building this field
And they wont happen with out philanthropy.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Women entrepreneurs
training, incubation,
mentorship
Support social entrepreneurs to
get capital-ready
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Beyond investing,Beyond educating yourself and others,
There are lots of ways to support building this field
And they wont happen with out philanthropy.
Research
Due diligence around fund design Field/pipeline mapping
Technology for women entrepreneurs research
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What Else Can You Do?
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Beyond investing,
Beyond educating yourself and others,
There are lots of ways to support building this field
And they wont happen with out philanthropy.
Community/Education
Case studies
Events for ecosystem players
investors, intermediaries,
entrepreneurs
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Beyond investing,
Beyond educating yourself and others,
There are lots of ways to support building this field
And they wont happen with out philanthropy.
THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
Cultivate the opportunity for more gender lens investing vehicles Mobilizewomen investors and investment capital to invest with a gender lens
Women Effect Investments
Bringing a Gender Lens to Investing
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Women Effect Investments Initiative
Bringing a Gender Lens to Investing