May 15An Analysis of Our First Impact-Linked Loan to Drive DEIA little over twelve months ago, we launched Incluye, an SME loan product aimed at driving diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at medium-sized businesses in Mexico (we wrote about it here). The product is structured as a three-year straight-line amortised loan, while the interest rate is directly linked to delivery…5 min read5 min read
Jul 4, 2022An Investment Approach for Improving LGBTQIA* Communities’ Access to Labour MarketsLike anyone else, people in LGBTQIA* (1) communities have aspirations, drive, and plenty to contribute. Yet often their lived experience is very different. In too many aspects of their lives, LGBTQIA* people are more or less forcefully excluded from mainstream society. Lee Badgett put it very accurately in one of…LGBTQ8 min readLGBTQ8 min read
Jan 25, 2021Investing in LGBTQIA* Enterprises in Mexico ‒ First ImpressionsAfter months of discussions with our partners into launching a pilot programme in Mexico, we were faced with a new reality: Covid-19 had hit Mexico hard. By July 2020, the country was about to reach peak infection rates in the first wave, with a second wave already looming. The economy…LGBTQ8 min readLGBTQ8 min read
Jan 11, 2021Making Gender Lens Investing More InclusiveThis article provides a glimpse into how we look at using the power that comes from holding capital to influence the investment managers we work with. Dreilinden invests its endowment across three buckets: (1) public equities and bonds; (2) direct investments in emerging markets; (3) impact funds. For each bucket…LGBTQ4 min readLGBTQ4 min read
Dec 14, 2020From short-term help to deep dives into our funding strategy: Six months into our Covid-19 responseDreilinden aims to have a holistic impact by bringing together its grant-making and investment practices. This mission has led us to initiate a series of profound discussions, many of which were, of course, disrupted or accelerated by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Transformative change In the first half of the year…LGBTQ7 min readLGBTQ7 min read
Dec 7, 2020Virtual Coaching for LGBTQIA* Entrepreneurs in South Africa — Five Challenges and Five LessonsFollowing the Queer Pitch Days in South Africa in December 2019, we went on to launch our coaching programme. During the Pitch Days, we had identified six entrepreneurs who showed great promise from an impact and business perspective but who were not quite investment-ready yet. …LGBTQ9 min readLGBTQ9 min read
May 14, 2020Philanthropy for a Rainy Day: Our Covid-19 ResponseIf there was ever a time to stand by existing commitments and to mobilise additional resources, that time is now. The rainy day has come, and we must provide ad hoc Covid-19 support. There has been much talk about how a pandemic has the greatest impact on the most marginalised…Covid-199 min readCovid-199 min read
Apr 21, 2020Our Journey from Gender Lens to Queer Lens InvestingEver since we launched Dreilinden back in 2006, we have aspired to make an outsized impact on queer communities through our grant-making and investment activities. While our grant-making activities have been well documented in various publications (see examples here, here, and here), we have not yet published a great deal…Impact Investing7 min readImpact Investing7 min read
Mar 20, 2020SARS-Cov2: Top 6 Tips for Queer Entrepreneurs in South AfricaWe collated a few tips from various resources for our mentorship programme and thought they might be useful to others as well. …Entrepreneurship6 min readEntrepreneurship6 min read
Mar 19, 2020Queer Lens Impact Investing: Country SelectionThis article hopes to shed some light on how to think through different indicators and aspects when assessing the opportunities that a country or region has in terms of queer impact investing. For our Queer Impact Investment Universe studies, we wanted to glean insights from two to three different geographical…Impact Investing10 min readImpact Investing10 min read
