Make Shift Happen
A New Model for Change in Impact Investing
By Ruth Shaber, MD, Founder and President, Tara Health Foundation
When longtime colleagues and confidants, Erika Seth Davies, CEO of Rhia Ventures, and Ruth Shaber, Co-Founder and Board Chair of Rhia Ventures (and Founder and President of Tara Health Foundation), sit down together to talk about the innovative impact investing model behind Rhia Ventures, you can feel the strong sense of trust, relationship, and thought partnership between them.
Movement-Led Funds as Experiments in Regeneration
By Maria Nakae, Senior Director of Just Transition Investing, Justice Funders
What becomes possible when we shift power with integrated capital?
In Episode 10 of Make Shift Happen, I had the pleasure of talking with Tenesha Duncan, CEO and founder of Orchid Capital Collective, about the growing ecosystem of movement-led funds that are shifting the flow of capital and power while rewriting the rules of finance.
Community-Led Care Requires Integrated Capital
By Tenesha Duncan, Founder and CEO of Orchid Capital Collective, Tara Health Foundation Anchor Organization
Our support for midwives and community-led care must reflect their value in dollars and cents—and beyond.
For this episode of Make Shift Happen, I had the honor of speaking with Kiki Jordan, Founder and Executive Director of Birthland Midwifery, about what becomes possible when we value all forms of capital—social, knowledge, and financial, to name a few—and invest in community-owned and -rooted care systems that are changing outcomes and trajectories for families and communities.
Meet the Leaders Making Shift Happen
By the Tara Health team
Coming October 2025, we’re looking forward to the release of our Make Shift Happen Conversation Series, where we’ve brought together leaders, innovators, and dreamers across the philanthropic and nonprofit sector who are doing the work of transforming philanthropy into a true force for gender, economic, and racial justice.