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Pay It forward
Our mission is to close the gender power, wealth and funding gap by advancing for-profit board careers for women, supporting women-led startups and funds, and providing women opportunities to invest in other women.
For every board career advanced through a Paid Company Membership, we will gift a Free Annual Board Candidate Membership.
The economic case for diversity is real! Strengthen your organization and grow your bottom line by diversifying your boardroom and leadership team.
In 2018 Breen Sullivan, an in-house tech lawyer, noticed something: her male colleagues were angel investing and serving on advisory and governing boards of startups (and getting promoted!) and her female colleagues weren’t. When she tried to find similar opportunities for herself, there was no obvious place to go. As a tech lawyer, Breen also knew many startups don’t take advantage of advisory boards or fill all of their open board seats, which meant fewer opportunities than there needed to be.
Our Pay It Forward Initiative spearheads this transformation by enlisting thousands of companies between now and 2025 to take a pledge to close the gender wealth and funding gap by diversifying boardrooms and cap tables. The Initiative kicked off on March 29th, 2023: ‘Pay It Forward Day.’ The target goal is to advance for-profit board careers for 75k women by the end of 2025. Breen and Kat have figured out a way to incentivize companies to think differently about their boards and revolutionize how they measure DE&I: Pay It Forward Partners receive a seal (think Good Housekeeping) and credits for the number of opportunities they create (kind of like carbon off-sets). Pre-launch partners already include CCBJ, NYSERDA, PEWIN, The Innovation Space and Stella Labs, Trulieve and Open Grants with many more lining up.
Pay It Forward incentivizes all companies to ‘pull more chairs up to the table,’ bring diversity into their boardroom, and empower women executives to initiate or advance for-profit board careers all while saving money against the bottom line.
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