Giving Compass' Take:

· Sherryl Kuhlman talks with Ruth Shaber about the work of the Tara Health Foundation and how it uses its assets and resources to help better the lives of women and girls.

· How is the Tara Health Foundation approaching philanthropy differently? How does female health relate to economic and social wellbeing? 

· Check out this article about informed gender-lens investing.

In a podcast with the Wharton Social Impact Initiative Ruth Shaber, MD talks about aligning 100 percent of the assets held by the Tara Health Foundation to its mission of improving the lives of women and girls. This includes not only funding grants, investments in companies that are improving lives of women and girls, as well as other ways of providing capital to those who are improving access to women’s healthcare. Dr. Shaber describes providing low-interest private debt out of the endowment and how impact investments like this allow their grants to be more impactful.

Read the full article about the Tara Health Foundation at Mission Investors Exchange.