Bio

Kate Danaher is the 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.