Kate Danaher
Managing Director at S2G Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2020 - Current
Senior Manager, Social Enterprise and Integrated Capital
2016 - 2020
Kate Danaher is a senior manager of Social Enterprise Lending and Integrated Capital at San Francisco–based RSF Social Finance, an impact investing pioneer that has provided loans and grants to social enterprises since 1984. Kate focuses on RSF’s food and agriculture portfolio, where her work includes business development and strategy for the lending program, PRI portfolio, and integrated capital funds. RSF has financed more aggregators and distributors of regional and sustainable food than any other organization in the country, and Kate is deploying RSF’s financial tools to build more-resilient regional food systems and high-integrity supply chains. Kate is a frequent speaker on investment in sustainable food and agriculture. She received her MBA through the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise program at Colorado State University.
Lending Manager
2015 - 2020
Senior Lending Associate
2012 - 2020
Chief Lending Officer
2019 - 2020
RSF Social Finance is a non-profit financial services organization providing senior secured debt to enterprises.
Raised $500,000.00 from Rockefeller Foundation.
Project Manager
2008 - 2011
Graduate Student
2010 - 2011
Account Executive
2009 - 2010
Education
MBA
2010 - 2011
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2000 - 2004