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…

• Barclay’s Women in Leadership

• The Women and Girls Equality Strategy at US Trust

• The Parity Portfolio at Morgan Stanley

• Pax Ellevate’s Global Women’s Index

• Equileap

Communities Convening to Discuss Gender Lens Investing

• Tides

• SOCAP

• Prospera

• Global Impact Investors Network (GIIN)  

• Mission Investors Exchange 

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

• Phenomenelle Angels Fund

• 37 Angels

Funds Management Firms
These boutique funds do all of the above as well as mobilize shareholder engagement around companies’ policies.

• Zevin Asset Management

• Arjuna Capital

• Trillium

• Boston Common

• Breckenridge

• Nia Global Solutions

• Veris Wealth Partners

• Tides

• Cornerstone Capital

• Belle Capital

• Brava Investments

• Matterhorn Group

• RockFlower

• Texas Women Ventures

• True Wealth Ventures

• Marigold Capital

• Purpose Capital