For our Donor-Partner Q&A, we speak to RS Group about how Heading for Change has helped to sharpen their understanding of the intricate relationship between gender and climate, and the ways in which philanthropy can provide a bridge and learning platform for funders to gain exposure to impact investing.

For our ‘Voices from the Field’ series, we speak to Maelis Carraro, Managing Partner at Catalyst Fund, about her firsthand experience witnessing the disruptive impact of climate change, particularly in emerging markets. She shares her hope that within a decade, "gender-climate investing" will no longer be seen as a niche strategy but simply as smart investing.

For our ‘Voices from the Field’ series, we speak to Tammy E. Newmark, CEO and Managing Partner at Eco Enterprises Fund, about how a period of excess and greed in the financial sector in the 1980s inspired her to join like-minded women on Wall Street in pursue micro-finance and socially responsible investing.

The recent co-investment into Circulate Capital’s Ocean Fund LAC between Heading for Change and Sea Forward is an example of what happens when two DAFs combine their expertise, capital and strategies to drive deeper and more meaningful change. 

Heading for Change has announced it intends to invest in five new emerging markets gender-smart climate funds.

For our ‘Voices from the Field’ series, we speak to Noramay Cadena & Shayna Harris, Managing Partners at Supply Change Capital about how their careers at the intersection of innovation, equity, and sustainability led them to uncover opportunities to invest in technology to transform the food system in response to climate and culture as driving forces.

Earlier this year, Heading for Change partnered with Artha Network to undertake ecosystem mapping and to establish a digital investor platform for pipeline and co-investment, with the aim of mobilizing more capital for funds and other initiatives that combat climate change and gender equality. We caught up with Artha’s Co-Founders Ken and Audrey to speak about the progress so far.

For our ‘Voices from the Field’ series, we speak to Tracy Gray, Founder of The 22 Fund, about her biggest influences, how equity and justice are in her DNA, and her believe in investment capital’s power to change lives.

Heading for Change has announced its seventh investment into an early-stage growth impact fund that invests in tech-based, export oriented manufacturing with a racial, gender, climate and social justice lens.

For our ‘Voices from the Field’ series, we speak to Genevieve Edens, Senior Director of Impact and ESG at WaterEquity about how an early career in the coffee industry opened her eyes to the interconnectedness of gender inequality and climate change.

For our new ‘Voices from the Field’ series, we speak to Heading for Change’s portfolio fund managers. First up is Shally Shanker, Founder and Managing Partner at AiiM Partners, who speaks to us about how climate and gender integration is showing up in her fund.

For our Donor-Partner Q&A, we speak to ShePlace & SheMoney’s Founder about how a recent trip to Greenland confirmed the state of climate emergency we’re in and why we must urgently be allocating investment dollars at the intersection of climate and gender.

The trailblazers of gender lens investing - Joy Anderson, the late Suzanne Biegel, and Jackie VanderBrug - have received the esteemed Joan Bavaria Award for their groundbreaking contributions to social investing.

In our first Donor-Partner Q&A, we speak to Muirfield Foundation’s President and Executive Director about her perspectives and commitment to investing at the intersection of gender and climate.

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.

“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.