Value for Women in collaboration with UN Women have published a report on the state of gender lens investing in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nancy Swanson, Executive Director of Linked Foundation, was consulted and interviewed for the report as…
In a poor, peri-urban neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador, women arrive at a simple yet trusted clinic for reproductive health services. The NGO CEMOPLAF manages this clinic and has been successfully providing sexual and reproductive health services to the poorest Ecuadorians…
The attached research report, “Impact Investment Landscape for Women’s Health – Spotlight on Colombia and Peru,” represents the culmination of a project supported by the Linked Foundation and conducted by the William Davidson Institute (WDI) at the University of Michigan.…
Linked Foundation’s Senior Advisor, Anna De La Cruz, co-authored an in depth report on the Pfizer’s Foundation’s Innovation Grant Program (GHIG). The Pfizer program was launched in 2016 “to support the growth of innovations that improve access to quality healthcare…
This year Linked Foundation joined the Confluence Philanthropy community and I was fortunate to attend the 7th Annual Practitioner’s Gathering in New Orleans, LA in March. Confluence Philanthropy ‘advances mission-aligned investing and supports and catalyzes a community of private, public…
While other sectors like microfinance have been on the radar of impact investors and market-minded philanthropists for over a decade, health social enterprises are generally a newer player to the scene. But the last few years have seen huge advances…
By Anna De La Cruz, Senior Advisor to the Linked Foundation The 2015 Foro Latinoamericano de Inversion de Impacto (Latin American Impact Investing Forum) held February 22-24 in Merida, Mexico, was much more than a chance to visit a lovely…
We wanted to share this very short video which illustrates how the whole family becomes vested in the success of TISA in Guatemala.