Acumen, the Woodcock Foundation and the Cartier Foundation invite you to the New York launch of Women and Social Enterprises: How Gender Integration Can Boost Entrepreneurial Solutions to Poverty. This special evening will bring together our community of partners, board members, advisors, and leaders in gender equality and gender lens investing to discuss how we can create a more just world in which everyone, regardless of gender, has the opportunity to build a life based on dignity.
Jennifer is President and CEO of Calvert Foundation, a nonprofit organization that specializes in impact investing around the globe. Since its founding, Calvert Foundation has been on a mission to connect individuals to impact through their investments, creating an opportunity for private capital to augment philanthropic and government funding streams to solve some of the world’s greatest social problems.
Allison has more than five years of research, program, and advocacy experience focused on adolescent girls, reproductive health and family planning, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and women and technology. At ICRW, Allison has carried out research on women’s demand for contraception, conducted a deeper analysis of programs that have successfully delayed child marriage, examined the links between adolescent girls’ education and successful transitions to adulthood, and identified how technology can benefit women and girls.
Yasmina leads Acumen's efforts to engage with strategic corporate partners who share Acumen's commitment to supporting entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. She initiated and managed the Water Portfolio at Acumen, and has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability, and social entrepreneurship for the past 16 years.
Lisa is an award-winning social & political entrepreneur. She is an expert in the intersections of women, communications, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy & behavioral science. She is a frequent writer, public speaker & moderator appearing in the media on and platforms like World Economic Forum, TEDWomen, Clinton Global Initiative & The Skoll World Forum. She is the co-author of The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She sits on numerous for-profit & not-for-profit boards. In 2010, she was named a Young Global Leader.
The Woodcock Foundation is a progressive family foundation established to link family creativity and resources with community development needs. The Woodcock Foundation supports community development especially when there is an opportunity to improve the educational, economic, and environmental circumstances of communities in need. Particular attention is given to programs to programs that encourage and reward leadership, foster entrepreneurship, and enhance the quality of life.
The Cartier Charitable Foundation was created to catalyse the Maison Cartier’s philanthropic commitment to improving the livelihoods of the most vulnerable. The Foundation focuses on the most excluded and marginalized, in particular women and children living in the world’s least developed regions and works to remove the barriers that prevent people from acting and thriving, enabling them to live a meaningful and fulfilling life in an inclusive, equitable and safe environment. The Foundation currently supports 17 partners in 28 developing countries.
Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty
by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. We invest
patient capital in businesses whose products and services
are enabling the poor to transform their lives. Founded by
Jacqueline Novogratz in 2001, Acumen has invested more
than $88 million in 82 companies across Africa, Latin
America and South Asia. We are also developing a global
community of emerging leaders with the knowledge, skills
and determination to create a more inclusive world. In
2015, Acumen was named one of Fast Company’s Top 10
Most Innovative Not-for-Profit Companies. Learn more at
www.acumen.org.
