Fireside Chat: UNICEF USA's Bridge Fund

6:00pm PST 3/25/2019

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Fireside Chat: UNICEF USA's Bridge Fund
About this Event

Join UNICEF NextGen for a Fireside Chat with UNICEF USA Bridge Fund Senior Director Erin Egan. Spend an evening learning more about UNICEF's impact investing arm, and how the Bridge Fund is elevating the impact of UNICEF USA. Have your questions answered, and meet with other NextGeners from across the Bay Area.
 


What is the Bridge Fund?
The UNICEF USA Bridge Fund is an impact investing loan fund used to bridge the timing gaps that arise between when financial commitments are made to UNICEF and cash is secured to ensure its life-saving work continues seamlessly around the world when speed or continuity is essential. Since its inception in 2011, the Bridge Fund has accelerated over $240 million to UNICEF to ensure it can purchase vaccines on time to keep immunization campaigns on track, deliver desks that arrive before school starts, and fast-track emergency relief to desperate families just one day after a disaster strikes. The fund's low-risk, high-impact profile is attractive to a range of investors and grantors seeking to make a difference for the survival and development of the world's children. The UNICEF USA Bridge Fund has also been included on the industry-recognized impact investing manager list, the ImpactAssets 50, for five consecutive years.

About Erin Egan
Erin Egan is the Senior Director of the UNICEF USA Bridge Fund. In this role she leads the underwriting and operations of the fund and supports investor relations initiatives such as the compilation of the Bridge Fund Quarterly Reports. Erin joined UNICEF USA as Director of the Bridge Fund in 2016 from a New York City start-up non-profit, Blue Engine, focused on reducing college dropout rates by increasing the quality of high school education. At Blue Engine she worked in development and communications. Erin started her career in financial services spending 7 years at Goldman Sachs in various operational and support functions within structured credit derivatives, predominately with the principal funding and investment group. Given her cross-sector experience in the financial industry and the social sector, she is incredibly passionate about the potential of impact investing.

Where
Devils Acre
256 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, California 94133
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When
6:00pm PST 3/25/2019
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