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Contributor Monica Sanders wrote about Heading for Change’s investment approach in a feature published on 30 April.
Heading for Change (HfC) has appointed Sana Kapadia in the role of Chief Catalyst. Samantha Anderson, Change Weaver at HfC, will step away from her operational role and will provide advisory support as needed.
Heading for Change has announced its sixth investment into a diversity and climate-focused fund in the Nordics.
Heading for Change recently partnered with Invest for Better to scale our portfolio learnings and move a wider group of investors to action. We speak to Tuti Scott, an IFB Partner and author of Moving Money for Impact; A Guide to Gender Lens Investing, and Janine Firpo, co-founder of Invest for Better about the training they’ve designed to help more women move private capital with a climate and gender lens.
Heading for Change, the $3.5 million climate endowment set up by the late gender-smart investing pioneer Suzanne Biegel, has made its first five investments. (Alliance Magazine)
“To lean into the future a bit, we’d like to say that when we have met the climate challenge, any reverse engineering at that point would show that women were a key factor. And we’ve seen that for years at ImpactAlpha, across all of our coverage and hundreds of deals and dozens of funds.” This was how ImpactAlpha’s Founder David Bank kicked off the Agents of Impact call with Heading for Change on 15 November 2023, acknowledging the late Suzanne Biegel’s leadership in revealing material connections between the two impact themes.
The Heading for Change team is delighted to announce its first five investments: AiiM Partners, Supply Change Capital, MCE’s Mesa Fund, WaterEquity, and Just Climate.
We are deeply saddened to share that Suzanne Biegel passed away in London on September 20, 2023, after bravely navigating metastatic lung cancer for more than two years.
According to the latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world needs to increase green investment by three to six times current levels in order to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees and avert runaway, catastrophic climate change.
Heading for Change celebrates $750,000 grant from RS Group!
In confronting the end of her life, Suzanne has found a clarified vision around how to spend her time, live into her purpose, and speak truth.
Suzanne Biegel: ‘It took me having a fatal illness to come back to my original self’
Heading for Change doubles the size of its endowment in just a few months!
Suzanne Biegel speaks at Confluence Philanthropy’s 2023 Advisors Forum & Climate Solutions about the philosophy behind Heading for Change, why all climate finance needs to be gender-smart, and why we won't get the climate solutions we need if we're missing half the population.
Skoll Foundation has joined Heading for Change as a Donor-Partner with our first major contribution of $500,000!
Watch the Heading for Change Launch Event featuring Suzanne Biegel and Daniel Maskit, presented by Impact Assets’ Tim Freundlich.
Suzanne Biegel launches legacy project as she reveals cancer diagnosis
If and when we have met the climate challenge, a key success factor will be clear: women. Read the full article on ImpactAlpha.
We can’t solve the climate crisis without women, says new endowment investing at the nexus of climate and gender