Kate McAdams

Managing Director, Arabella Advisors

Kate McAdams is an Arabella Advisors managing director based in Chicago. She works with a wide range of families and individuals, foundations, and corporations to conceive, design, and deliver the solutions they need to achieve their philanthropic and impact investing goals. She often works closely with family foundation partners who are looking to add innovative approaches or additional capacity to their efforts.

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Building an Economy for All: How Philanthropic Families Can Help

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Cyrus Kharas, Kate McAdams, Arabella Advisors

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Providing equitable access to the capital entrepreneurs need to build their businesses is essential to creating a just society and to realizing our full economic potential. Unfortunately, a growing body of research shows that deeply embedded biases currently restrict access to capital for businesses led by women and people of color. Kate McAdams and Cyrus Kharas offer concrete steps for philanthropic families to correct this market failure through what the Arabella Advisors team describes as “inclusive investing.”… Read More

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