FAQs
If you have a question about Heading for Change that isn’t answered here, get in touch.
Investment FAQs
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Investments will be $100,000.
Grants will range from $2,500 to $50,000.
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To learn more about our investment strategy and our current portfolio, please click here
You can find more detail on our investment criteria here
General FAQs
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A donor-advised fund is a charitable account that enables the creation and implementation of a grants and investment strategy that enables funders to better align impact and financial goals.
Donors can enjoy tax benefits, make flexible grants, and invest funds for future giving. -
Heading for Change was created by the late gender-smart investing pioneer Suzanne Biegel and her husband, Daniel Maskit.
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You can visit our investment page to read more about our strategy and take a look inside our portfolio. Our investment criteria is here.
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To begin exploring some of the resources and learnings we are compiling, please visit our Tools and Resources page.
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Gender lens investing is the integration of gender analysis into a new or existing investment process for better social and financial outcomes.
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Investing at the climate-gender nexus means recognizing that gender and climate is material to all investment strategies and beyond risk, integrating a gender lens to climate investing offers opportunity for returns and impact.
At Heading for Change, our integrated climate and gender strategy supports women and underserved groups across the value chain- as fund managers, as founders, as community members, consumers and decision makers. This integration of gender in climate investing is both a wise financial strategy and a crucial step toward effective climate action.
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By becoming a Heading for Change Donor-Partner, you will support our mission to catalyze the flow of capital to gender-smart climate solutions, while gaining valuable education and insights to assist you on your own climate and gender investing journey. Whether you participate with a tax-deductible donation of $100 or $1MM, all Donor-Partners become part of an inclusive community dedicated to catalyzing investment at the nexus of climate and gender - as well as getting a front row seat to learn from our due diligence process, pipeline, and unique investment thesis.
Individuals, family foundations, family offices, community foundations, corporate foundations, and other institutional investors can all become Donor-Partners, and US contributions are tax deductible.
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We are building a vibrant Donor-Partner community where we share insights, learnings from building out the global demonstration portfolio and best practices on how to invest at the nexus of climate and gender. Our commitment is to share experiences and lessons learned in an open-sourced and transparent process, extending Suzanne’s influence as a potent ecosystem builder. Quarterly newsletters, learning circles, sharing reports, tools and resources related to climate-gender investing to celebrate our work together are all planned.
Our commitment to openly sharing our thesis, strategy and criteria enables you to leverage our research and analysis in your own investments and amplify our impact together. -
As this is a tax-deductible charitable contribution, the returns must be recycled back into the Endowment and cannot flow back to the Donor-Partners. All investment returns are channeled back to Heading for Change to continue to advance climate solutions and gender equity through additional fund investments and grants.