Five Takeaways from Gender Lens: Closing the SDG Financing Gap and Leaving No One Behind SEAF Managing Director Bob Webster traveled to New York earlier this week to speak at a side session of the UN ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development the main follow-up...
Last week, the IFC and the Brookings Institute co-hosted “Impact investing: Achieving financial returns while doing good,” a discussion that explored the challenges and potential for impact investing to scale and served as the official rollout of the IFC report, “Creating Impact: The Promise of...
Skopje, North Macedonia Earlier this month, CEED Global Director Peter Righi addressed an audience of North Macedonian private sector and government officials on how entrepreneurship and private investments can propel economic development. Peter was invited by the was invited by the US Embassy in North Macedonia,...
Last week, SEAF Investment Associate Ingrid Chou participated on a Women’s Impact Investing Network (WIIN) Gender Lens Panel at UBS (with whom SEAF has partnered with on Align 17). Ingrid, joined by Beth Bafford from Calvert Impact Capital and Christine Roddy from the Alpha Mundi Foundation,...
Happy International Women’s Day! We wanted to take this opportunity to write about one of core impact themes: women's economic empowerment and gender equality. SEAF has been investing in women-owned and operated businesses for the more than two decades now, and has found meaningful financial and...
By Jamal Abisourour, Vice President at SEAF In a region that is rife with political, social and economic issues, there is a country in the Middle East that continuously succeeds to escape global headlines, due to its ability to keep its issues local and maintain internal cohesion and stability...
By Robert Vodicka III, SEAF Vice President, Business Development Since their inception in 2015, the SDGs have become the standard in impact targets, not only in the impact investment and development industry, but increasingly in commercial aspects of finance and other corporate arenas. We’ve seen the...
Since their introduction in 2015, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have emerged as the generally accepted criteria guiding investors interested in achieving impact. The 17 goals cover a wide range of social and environmental goals, the attainment of which are generally recognized as ensuring unambiguous developmental progress for the...
As SEAF embarks on its 30th anniversary year in 2019, we would like to thank our investors, entrepreneurs, and employees for a wonderful and full 2018. Over the course of the year, we scaled our operations across the globe, adding valuable new team members and...
