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Interview with Erika D. Williams, Vice President of Client Development with RSF Social Finance and The Women’s Capital Collaborative Fund

Interview with Erika D. Williams, Vice President of Client Development with RSF Social Finance and The Women’s Capital Collaborative Fund

by transformative25 | Oct 17, 2021 | 2021, 2022

Jen: How was the RSF’s Women’s Capital Collaborative Fund created? Erika: Women entrepreneurs are routinely left behind when it comes to funding. On average, women start businesses with half as much capital as men, despite women-led enterprises exhibiting faster rates...
Interview with Gaithiri Siva, Director of the Buen Vivir Fund

Interview with Gaithiri Siva, Director of the Buen Vivir Fund

by transformative25 | Sep 29, 2021 | 2021

I remember Rajasvini Bhansali, the former executive director of Thousand Currents, talking about a new kind of investment fund in which investors and partners had an equal role in governing the decision-making through an assembly process. At the Swift Foundation, we...
Interview with Luni Libes, Founder and Co-CEO for the Africa Eats Fund

Interview with Luni Libes, Founder and Co-CEO for the Africa Eats Fund

by transformative25 | Sep 29, 2021 | 2021

I learned about FLEDGE and Africa Eats from Tim Crosby of the Thread Fund who was excited about the potential of African-based food and agriculture businesses to address job creation. When I was at the Swift Foundation, I was excited to learn of a venture capital fund...
Interview with Martha Brantley, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Shared Interest Fund

Interview with Martha Brantley, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Shared Interest Fund

by transformative25 | Sep 24, 2021 | 2021

When I learned about the approach that Shared Interest took in leveraging deposits in United States banks to back loans on the continent of Africa, I felt sure that Swift Foundation would be interested in their workforce development and social justice fund. The...
Interview with Ellen Fish, Director of R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund

Interview with Ellen Fish, Director of R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund

by transformative25 | Aug 10, 2021 | 2021, 2022

When Ellen applied to be part of the Transformative 25, I was intrigued by her fund’s focus on artisan enterprises. Then I learned her initiative was part of the Friends of Tilonia, a non-profit organization working with the Barefoot College. Founded by Bunker Roy,...
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