Gender-Lens Investing
Deepening Donor Impact Through Our Gender-lens Portfolio
To maximize our ability to use all forms of capital to achieve our mission, The Women’s Foundation of Colorado is deepening our gender-lens investing options for donors.
WFCO targets allocating a minimum of 51 percent of our invested assets to gender lens investments by the end of 2021. As of September 2021, The Foundation has reached 73 percent.
What is gender-lens investing?
Gender-lens investing is a form of impact investing, which is investing with the intent of both a financial and measurable, beneficial, social return. Gender-lens investing specifically benefits women by addressing gender disparities, most commonly through three lenses: access to capital, workplace equity, and products and services supporting women.
Read our Gender-Lens Investing 101 blog post.
When you open a donor-advised fund at WFCO or participate in one of our giving circles, you know that your investment will align with WFCO priority issues, such as equal pay, family-friendly work policies, and gender diversity on corporate boards and executive management.
The Foundation offers two gender-lens investing options for donors:
- A long-term, unitized portfolio, which is currently 73 percent gender-lens invested as of September 2021.
- A 100 percent gender-lens portfolio, which no other community foundation in Colorado offers.
Please contact Renee Ferrufino, vice president of development, with questions. She can be reached at reneef@wfco.org.