New York, January 23, 2025 – Ladies’s World Banking is thrilled to announce an thrilling partnership, aligned with our mission to advance Gender Lens Investing. After six years of impactful work, Ladies of the World Endowment (WoWE) has joined forces with, and transferred its property to, Ladies’s World Banking.
Ladies of the World Endowment was created by Endurance Marime-Ball with a daring imaginative and prescient that was delivered to life by means of the beneficiant help of Dr. Ruth Shaber and different donors. Collectively, they aimed to shift the paradigm of capital allocation in the direction of extra various groups and techniques that may drive higher monetary returns in addition to constructive social and environmental change. Since its founding, WoWE has constructed a portfolio of influence investments, delivered key analysis and insights, and fostered a group of like-minded advocates devoted to its mission.
This mission will reside on and develop at Ladies’s World Banking. This transfer permits Ladies’s World Banking to develop the influence of Ladies’s World Banking Asset Administration, furthering its pioneering Gender Lens Investing method and funding technique, with the intention of selling ladies as prospects, as expertise and as leaders.
Commenting on the announcement, Ladies’s World Banking’s President and CEO, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, stated, “We’re excited to associate with Ladies of the World Endowment and keep it up their mission. This transition not solely validates Ladies’s World Banking’s technique to develop into influence investing however confirms our management within the rising area of Gender Lens investing. We’re deeply grateful to the WoWE Board for putting their belief in our group as we construct on the essential work they’ve began.”
Commenting on the announcement the WoWE Group mirrored, “Since our inception, WoWE has been devoted to investing in options that create lasting change at scale, with a deal with ladies as changemakers. By way of this transition to Ladies’s World Banking, we’re poised to construct upon this legacy, additional empowering ladies and women to drive systemic transformation throughout varied sectors.”
About Ladies’s World Banking
For over 45 years, Ladies’s World Banking has been devoted to serving the practically 1 billion ladies excluded by the formal monetary sector. As an NGO, we associate with monetary establishments and policymakers to design, develop and implement options and applications that facilitate systemic change for ladies. As an investor, we advance ladies within the office and as prospects by means of direct fairness – to deliver them safety, prosperity, and independence. Since 2018 Ladies’s World Banking has reached greater than 82 million ladies serving to to alter not solely their lives but in addition of their households, communities, and nations. To study extra about Ladies’s World Banking, go to womensworldbanking.org.
Media Contacts
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