Make Shift Happen
It Matters Who Manages Capital
By Ruth Shaber, MD, Founder and President, Tara Health Foundation
The flow of capital reflects what we, as people, value.
I could talk with Erika Seth Davies, CEO of Rhia Ventures, all day.
You’ve heard us talk about opportunities for philanthropy to align endowments with grantmaking and the ways Rhia’s unique structure reorients our relationship to capital to better resource movements. Through all the finance and philanthropy wonkiness, our conversations keep coming back to the humans in the midst of all this capital—the people owning it, managing it, and using it to build a more just and equitable world.
A New Model for Change in Impact Investing
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.
Why Is Tara Health Spending Out? And Other FAQs
By Ruth Shaber, MD, Founder and President, Tara Health Foundation
A window into our spend out journey
Episode 12 of Make Shift Happen features Tara Health’s Executive Director, Elise Belusa, in conversation with Glen Galaich, CEO of the Stupski Foundation, about the experience of leading a foundation as it spends out its resources.
100% Mission Alignment to Move Beyond the 5/95 Model
By Ruth Shaber, MD
How impact investing helps us build new relationships with capital—and each other.
In this latest episode of the Make Shift Happen Conversation Series, I talk with Erika Seth Davies, CEO of Rhia Ventures, about the 5/95 model of philanthropy and how foundations can work within it—and beyond—to move toward 100% mission alignment.
Visible, bold, together: Finding each other to build the world we want
By Tara Health Foundation Team
In this moment of coordinated attacks on our movements, being visible about our commitments isn't just important—it's how we find each other and stand together. That's why we're making our commitments more visible than ever.
Transformative Philanthropy
By Ruth Shaber, MD, Founder and President
In our latest blog post, our founder and president, Dr. Ruth Shaber, reflects on Tara Health’s early years — how we built mission-aligned portfolios, developed new tools for gender-lens investing, and leveraged every resource to create meaningful change.
A New Chapter for Tara Health
By Elise Belusa, Executive Director, Tara Health Foundation
For years, our grantees, partners, and peers called on powerful institutions, like ours, to confront an uncomfortable truth: the money and power we hold and steward are often built upon the very unjust systems we seek to change.