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Vice President, Impact Investments
2022
Children & Families, Workforce & Economic Mobility
Catherine Dun Rappaport is a Vice President at Social Finance. Her work focuses on helping impact investors, government agencies, and community-based organizations deploy capital and deliver programming in ways that support economic and racial justice.
Catherine has over 20 years of experience leading evaluation and learning functions at mission-driven organizations, collaborating with clients and community partners on research that informs investment and programming, and sharing lessons learned with diverse audiences. Catherine imbues her work with humility and rigor, and she strives to ensure that it is accessible and useful.
Prior to joining Social Finance, Catherine was Senior Vice President of Learning at BlueHub Capital, a community development financial institution (CDFI). There, she spearheaded the development of the Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) function and led efforts to assess and increase the impact of BlueHub’s investments. She also led field-building efforts to help socially responsible investors develop effective IMM strategies.
Catherine also served as the Vice President of Learning and Analytics at the United Way of Mass Bay and as a senior research consultant at Abt Associates. Catherine overhauled United Way’s systems for allocating funding to nonprofit organizations in ways that increased equity and streamlined the work. At Abt, she led evaluation projects focused on workforce development and economically disadvantaged youth. Catherine also has five years of direct experience working in community-based organizations that support low-income children; she founded and ran the CT chapter of Read to a Child.
In her free time, Catherine serves on the Board of Directors for the Children’s Investment Fund, mentors a systems involved youth, and serves a senior advisor to Impact Frontiers. She also enjoys long hikes with her family, thrifting, and quality time with her gaggle of pets. Catherine graduated with honors from Amherst College and received a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
Social Finance is at the nexus of what I am most passionate about professionally. It’s a trailblazer in applied research and impact investment and has profound integrity in both.
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Stephen Vicinelli and Catherine Dun Rappaport joined Social Finance in late 2022. Both devote their time to unlocking the change-making potential of passive charitable capital, or assets that are indirectly invested through donor-advised funds (DAFs)…
