Catherine Clark (Cathy Clark)

Catherine Clark Professor, consultant, field builder, writer, and speaker in impact investing and social entrepreneurship Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Connect Connect with Catherine Clark Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business Columbia University - Columbia Business School See contact info 500+ connections Cathy Clark is Faculty Director at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and Director of the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing. Named in 2014 one of America’s Top 20 women working in philanthropy, social innovation and civic engagement, since 2014 she has also co-led the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), in partnership with USAID’s Global Development Lab. In 2013, she served on the G8 Task Force on Social Impact Investing US National Advisory Board, and completed a 2-year study on high performing impact investment funds, Impact Investing 2.0. Her co-authored book, The Impact Investor, reached #18 in finance textbooks on Amazon in 2014. Her online training series, CASE Smart Impact Capital, is being used by thousands of impact entrepreneurs around the world to raise the best capital for their ventures. For over 25 years, Cathy has worked with organizations, companies, funds and institutions to develop innovative solutions to social and environmental problems. She is a board member of the Self-Help Ventures Fund, Upstart Co-Lab and Capria Accelerator, an advisor to Tideline, and helped create the standards for B Corporations. Prior to her academic work she was a professional impact investor, who founded and ran a foundation and venture fund incubated by Flatiron Partners, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate. Before that she managed grants and program-related investments as VP at the Markle Foundation in NY and communications policy at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. Cathy holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She has published over 25 books, articles and case studies. Her blogs have appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Huffington Post, Skoll World Forum, and the World Economic Forum. She tweets at @cathyhc and publishes a weekly impact digest #OnImpact, read in over 100 countries. The Impact Investor book video 1 The Impact Investor book video 1 Show less Show less of Catherine’s summary Articles & activity 5,097 followers Plug in to CASE Smart Impact Capital Catherine’s profile photo Catherine Clark Published on LinkedIn Friends, I’m writing to tell you about a new online toolkit we’ve built to help entrepreneurs raise effective capital to fuel their growth and impact: CASE Smart Impact Capital. We at CASE have been working on this for nearly two years, scouring the planet, filming and interviewing people in the trenches and in boardrooms, and building a crowd-sourced, scalable, online guidebook that can help impact entrepreneurs be more efficient and effective throughout their investment capital raising journey. We’ve learned a lot and have had a very successful year working with partner organizations like MIT, Stanford, USAID, Uncharted, and Spring. To date, over 2000 users in over 100 countries have used pieces of the toolkit while it was in development. That includes 500 entrepreneurs getting access directly through our pilot partnerships. Our pilot partners have helped us affirm these tools are effective: 95% of a recent user cohort told us the tools helped them become more sophisticated at raising capital, and 85% of them recommended we make them available to their peers. So here’s the big news: on October 10 Smart Impact Capital will be available to ANY entrepreneur trying to have impact in the world! We’re very excited. We hope you’ll join us to plug into our new online toolkit to help all impact entrepreneurs fuel their impact: CASE Smart Impact Capital. Visit our platform to get a sneak peek of what’s inside, download a free tool, and to register for the series. Once you register, you’ll have access to over 12 hours of tools, guides, downloadables, resources, spreadsheets, and more, all at your fingertips, from anywhere in the world. Please let us know what you think using the hashtag #CASESmartImpact! Best wishes, Cathy Clark Faculty Director, CASE and CASE i3 at Duke University 7 Comments Like Comment Share See all articles No alt text provided for this image Principal AND Associate job descriptions Catherine shared this 4 Likes View Ana Pantelic’s profile Our pleasure, Ana! Your work inspires us! Catherine shared this 2 Likes No alternative text description for this image "I feel the SIC content is a goldmine!" -- University Mentor, Boston #impinv #socent #CASESmartImpact http://casesmartimpact.com Catherine shared this 1 Like See all activity Experience Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business Company NameDuke University - The Fuqua School of Business Total Duration11 yrs 10 mos TitleFaculty Director, CASE and CASE i3: Initiative on Impact Investing Dates EmployedSep 2011 – Present Employment Duration7 yrs 9 mos LocationDurham, NC Faculty Director for CASE, the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (www.caseatduke.org), as well as founder and chief executive for CASE's impact investing program, CASE i3: The Initiative on Impact Investing, at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (www.casei3.org). CASE is an award-winning research and education center whose mission is to prepare leaders and organizations leap the chasm from a good idea to social impact at scale. Since 2002, CASE has been a leader in the field of social entrepreneurship, serving as a hub for research, teaching and practitioner engagement. CASE has educated thousands of MBA students and worked with hundreds of organizations, funders, government agencies and researchers to help share lessons, connect theory to practice, and propel the profession of social entrepreneurship into the robust field it is today. The CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing works to establish rich set of resources and activities for MBA students, entrepreneurs, investors, funders, academics, policymakers and others to explore and support the field of impact investing. CASE i3 has been recognized as one of the top five programs in the world for impact investing education, research, and practice. See less Impact Capital 101: Supply and Demand Impact Capital 101: Supply and Demand Impact Investing and Tri-Sector Leadership Impact Investing and Tri-Sector Leadership TitleCo-Principal Investigator, Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) Dates EmployedJan 2014 – Present Employment Duration5 yrs 5 mos LocationDurham,NC Serve as the faculty co-lead of SEAD, a member of USAID Higher Education Solutions Network. SEAD was created as a learning accelerator to support scaling the impact of global health social enterprises addressing needs of low to middle income populations in East Africa, India and Latin America. A joint initiative between CASE at Duke, Innovati... See more SEAD_Highlights_FINAL.pdf SEAD_Highlights_FINAL.pdf TitleAdjunct Professor Dates EmployedAug 2007 – Present Employment Duration11 yrs 10 mos LocationDurham, NC Teach elective courses in Duke's daytime MBA program, including Social Entrepreneurship since 2007 and Impact Investing since 2011. "I got more [from Cathy's social entrepreneurship class] than I knew was possible. Going in, I thought social entrepreneurship was solely about the social entrepreneur - aka the ability to pitch what you believe in. What I learned was that the systems around the entrepreneur, and the world of entrepreneurship as a whole, demands bigger, more collaborative thinking. This broadening helps me think about my organization, and how I can focus on scaling something that actually gets at solving a root cause for a long time to come." "This has been the most rewarding course I've taken at Fuqua to date. Thank you for giving us such a challenging, stimulating course, Cathy!" "It should be said – without your class, I wouldn’t be where I am now and wouldn’t be able to share what I do. I hope I make you proud with it!" --Fuqua '08 alumna Suzanne Smith, Managing Director, Social Impact Architects “Your Impact Investing course was one of my very favorite classes I've taken thus far at Fuqua." "I have to say that social entrepreneurship was an amazing course. As an MPP student with 4 years of previous government experience, I have been struggling with whether returning to the government is the best way to have an impact. I previously viewed the social sector and private sector as a complete dichotomy. Your class has given me an entirely new perspective and a new set of tools for analyzing the alignment of mission, finances, and stakeholders that I can leverage in a broad range of environments. If I had known about the field of social entrepreneurship earlier, I may have chosen an MBA instead of an MPP. Thanks so much for exposing me to this field." --Colin Walsh, Master of Public Policy Candidate, Class of 2014 See less B Lab Member, B Lab Standards Advisory Council and Champion, B Corporation movement Company NameB Lab Dates EmployedApr 2010 – Present Employment Duration9 yrs 2 mos LocationBerwyn, PA • Consultant and Co-author, B Corporation survey. In close collaboration with B Lab co-founders, designed, wrote, and led review process for the first versions of what is now called the B Impact Assessment. It's the transparent online survey that all certified B Corporations must take and pass, built to help anyone understand and compare how companies impact their key stakeholders as well as how their business models drive impact. As of June 2018, the B Impact Assessment has been used by over 47,000 companies globally as a tool to help businesses become a force for good. • Member, B Lab's Standards Advisory Council, an independent committee with deep industry or stakeholder expertise that oversees content, weightings, and oversight of the certification standards for all B Corporations worldwide. As of June 2018, this included 2,581 B Corporations in 50+ countries working in 130 industries. • Director, CASE i3 B Corp and GIIRS Research Project, the first global network of academic researchers interested in using data from B Corporations (the certification), GIIRS (fund ratings) and benefit corporations (the legal form). With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, made grants and facilitated access to anonymized B Corp and GIIRS data for researchers from Harvard, Wharton, Emory and 10 other universities from 2010-2015. • Recipient, 2017 Bill Clark B the Change Champion Award, for 10 years of service building the B Corporation movement. "The B Corp movement is one of the most important of our lifetime, built on the simple fact that business impacts and serves more than just shareholders—it has an equal responsibility to the community and to the planet." -- Rose Marcario, CEO of Patagonia See less Welcome | B Corporation Welcome | B Corporation Perella Weinberg Partners Member, Perella Weinberg Partners Agility Strategic Advisory Board Company NamePerella Weinberg Partners Dates EmployedMay 2017 – Present Employment Duration2 yrs 1 mo LocationGreater Denver Area Serve as member of the Strategic Advisory Board to Perella Weinberg Partners Agility, a leading provider of unique outsourced investment solutions. With approximately $8.4 billion in assets under management, Agility works with a diverse, global client base, including endowments, foundations, family offices, corporations, and other pools of capital. Since 2007, Agility has specialized in creating investment programs tailored to the specific needs of clients that address complex challenges and meet individual investment objectives. See less Perella Weinberg Partners Agility Forms Strategic Advisory Board Perella Weinberg Partners Agility Forms Strategic Advisory Board Upstart Co-Lab Member, Advisory Board, Upstart Co-Lab Company NameUpstart Co-Lab Dates EmployedMay 2016 – Present Employment Duration3 yrs 1 mo LocationGreater New York City Area Upstart Co-Lab is a nonprofit organization that catalyzes change, translating jargon, fostering relationships, and aligning systems. It connects artists, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, social enterprises, and sustainable companies. And it convenes, bringing creativity and investment together to deliver social impact. Upstart Co-Lab Upstart Co-Lab Self-Help Credit Union Member, Self-Help Ventures Fund Board of Directors Company NameSelf-Help Credit Union Dates EmployedFeb 2016 – Present Employment Duration3 yrs 4 mos LocationRaleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Serve as board member for The Self-Help Ventures Fund, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) loan fund capitalized with loans and grants from foundations, religious organizations, corporations and government sources. It manages Self-Help's higher-risk business loans, real estate development and home loan secondary market programs. Capria Member, Advisory Council, Capria Company NameCapria Dates EmployedSep 2016 – Sep 2018 Employment Duration2 yrs 1 mo LocationGreater Seattle Area Capria is a global impact investment firm managing multiple funds that accelerate the flow of capital to deliver superior returns in emerging markets. Social Venture Circle Member and former Board Chair, Investors' Circle Company NameSocial Venture Circle Dates EmployedSep 2000 – Sep 2017 Employment Duration17 yrs 1 mo LocationRaleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area • Member since 2000 of the largest and most active early-stage impact investing network, Investors' Circle and the longest running social entrepreneur network, Social Venture Network, which merged in 2018. • Served as Chair of the Investors' Circle Board, 2009-2017. • Helped facilitate Investor Days Nairobi in 2016, have spoken at many IC workshops and webinars in MA, SF, CO, WA, NC and other cities around the US. • Helped establish IC's Global Health Advisory Board as part of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke, as part of a 5-year partnership between IC and CASE at Duke. • Have overseen several CASE i3CP consulting teams working with IC. • Join me at a pitch meeting or education session: https://www.svcimpact.org/ See less G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force, US National Advisory Board Member Company NameG8 Social Impact Investment Task Force, US National Advisory Board Dates EmployedSep 2013 – Sep 2016 Employment Duration3 yrs 1 mo Locationhttps://twitter.com/ImpactInvestUS The National Advisory Board (NAB) on Impact Investment worked in 2013 and 2014 to develop a set of policy recommendations to accelerate #impactinvesting within the U.S. It was engaged to support the Global Task Force on Social Impact Investing created by UK PM David Cameron at the June 2013 meeting of the G8. Reports were issued by the ... See more Social Impact Investment Taskforce Social Impact Investment Taskforce CASE i3 White House Roundtable Tracking Report #1 CASE i3 White House Roundtable Tracking Report #1 Columbia Business School Adjunct Assoc. Professor and Director, Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship Company NameColumbia Business School Dates EmployedSep 2001 – Jan 2011 Employment Duration9 yrs 5 mos Commons Capital Chair, Advisory Board Company NameCommons Capital Dates EmployedMay 2006 – 2011 Employment Duration5 yrs Global Social Venture Competition Faculty Advisor Company NameGlobal Social Venture Competition Dates Employed2001 – 2010 Employment Duration9 yrs GSVC GSVC Flatiron Partners Company NameFlatiron Partners Total Duration2 yrs TitlePresident, Flatiron Foundation Dates EmployedJan 2000 – Dec 2001 Employment Duration2 yrs TitleManaging Director, Flatiron Future Fund Dates EmployedJan 2000 – Dec 2001 Employment Duration2 yrs Markle Foundation Company NameMarkle Foundation Total Duration7 yrs TitleVice President Dates Employed1994 – 1999 Employment Duration5 yrs TitleProgram Manager Dates Employed1992 – 1994 Employment Duration2 yrs Aspen Institute Program Manager, Communications and Society Program Company NameAspen Institute Dates Employed1990 – 1992 Employment Duration2 yrs Show fewer experiences Education Columbia University - Columbia Business School Columbia University - Columbia Business School Degree NameMBA Dates attended or expected graduation 1996 – 1998 University of Virginia University of Virginia Degree NameBA Field Of StudyFrench Literature Dates attended or expected graduation 1986 – 1990 University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg Degree NameDiplôme Supérieur d’Études Françaises Dates attended or expected graduation 1988 – 1989 J R Masterman J R Masterman Dates attended or expected graduation 1981 – 1986