by Athena Global | Feb 24, 2023 | Blog, Gender Lens Investing, Library, Publications, Resources, SME/SGB
Athena Global’s data driven approach to supporting Women-Owned and Led Small and Medium Enterprises (WSME) extends to the use of technology to gather data and make explicit connections. A tangible and positive outcome from this approach is the development of an online...
by Athena Global | Oct 31, 2022 | Blog, Gender Lens Investing, SME/SGB
Athena Global is pleased to partner with the Technical Mission of Taiwan in Guatemala (TECRO) and the United States International Development Finance Corporation (USDFC) to host an event, NexWomen in Guatemala City. The event will be held around the Latin...
by Athena Global | May 19, 2022 | Gender Lens Investing, Resources
Securing funding is one of the many challenges female African entrepreneurs face. This Bloomberg.com article is a great resource to understanding these obstacles as it highlights the issues women-led companies encounter as well as the pioneers in the space...
by Athena Global | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog, Gender Lens Investing, Indigo Phibbs, Publications
By Indigo Elliot Phibbs, BIDUK MEL Specialist Gender has long been a hot topic in impact investing. With a growing number of people using social and environmental lenses to inform their investment decisions, gender has taken centre stage in social considerations....
by Athena Global | Aug 13, 2021 | Gender Lens Investing
By Kaylene Alvarez, Founder and CEO Words matter. They really do. This is even more true when working internationally, across cultures and languages. At Athena Global and BIDUK Indonesia, we’re working to understand how words can perpetuate power dynamics and...
by Athena Global | Aug 6, 2021 | BIDUK, Blog, Gender Lens Investing, Investment Vehicles, Videos
From Middle America to Nigeria to Thailand, Mexico and Indonesia, Ellen Fish makes her mark By Robert Hurst, Athena Global Advisors Recently I sat down for a talk with Brooklyn-based impact investor Ellen Fish. Ellen is the founder of R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund, a venture...
by Athena Global | Jul 4, 2021 | BIDUK, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Gender Lens Investing, SME/SGB, Videos
Ramona Ridolfi is the Program Manager of BIDUK, the prototype debt fund administered by Athena. In this video Ramona explains how her innate sense of justice led her to a career devoted to gender equity. Ramona is currently on maternity leave and also in the process...
by Athena Global | Jun 30, 2021 | BIDUK, Blog, Gender Lens Investing, Indigo Phibbs, Publications, SME/SGB
By Indigo Elliott Phibbs, BIDUK Learning and Communication Specialist Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) has become a well-accepted standard in any impact-focused industry. It is the method used to track and benchmark your progress towards increased impacts...
by Athena Global | May 22, 2021 | Gender Lens Investing, Resources
By Athena Global Download a PDF version of the following Tip Sheet: Practical-Considerations for Gender Lens Investing Download Gender Lens Investing (GLI) is the intentional act of making investment decisions and adopting processes and policies that will have a...
by Athena Global | May 21, 2021 | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Gender Lens Investing, Publications, Resources
As part of a project completed in March 2020 for a major investor, Athena developed the following short framework to begin assessing the role of women and the level of gender equity within a company, to be submitted along with other DD requests. The guide (pdf) can be...
by Athena Global | May 11, 2021 | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Gender Lens Investing, Robert Hurst
By Robert Hurst, Athena Global As a husband, father, son and brother (and now working for a small woman-owned agency focused on gender lens investing), I am only now beginning to realize the extent to which we humans are continuously pushed and pulled, tossed back and...
by Athena Global | Apr 22, 2021 | Blog, Gender Lens Investing, Resources, SME/SGB
By Robert Hurst, Athena Global Is your business large enough to be considered Small? At Athena two very important abbreviations have been battling for supremacy, and finally one has come out on top. We’ve decided to use the term SGB (Small and Growing Business) rather...
