Getting Gender Smart Course At Duke University

Getting Gender Smart was a three-day intensive course introducing investors, fund managers, and philanthropists to the emerging world of gender smart investing.

A collaboration between Catalyst at Large and Carrie Gonnella of Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, the course was designed to help participants quickly and easily integrate gender smart investing as part of their overall investing practice, including:

• Evaluating your own objectives and those of your key stakeholders;

• Exploring the markets for impact investing, including opportunities in both public and private markets;

• Integrating gender lens practices across the key steps of your investment process, including due diligence, structuring, and closing deals, governance, managing for impactful exits, and portfolio management.

• Evaluating and performing gender lens screening and due diligence of funds, both public and private, as well as of individual deals;

• Understanding current practices in impact measurement and management from a gender lens perspective and opportunities to improve gender outcomes in your existing portfolios; and

• Understanding the range of available resources and consultants available to help you along the way and how to select and work with them.

Getting Gender Smart took place March 11-13, 2019 and September 9-11, 2019 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. We will be offering the course again in late September, 2020, and if you want to be notified of future dates and registration, click here to share your contact information.