Natasha Cassinath
Natasha Cassinath (she/her), MBA, has been championing youth livelihoods, market systems development and social innovation and enterprise with a gender lens for over 20 years. She is currently the Executive Director of Fòs Feminista Canada, an affiliate of Fòs Feminista – an international alliance of over 200 sexual and reproductive health and rights organizations operating in 40 countries.
Among other priorities, Fòs Feminista hosts a social innovation lab which equip partners with the technical assistance and seed capital needed to adopt social enterprise models, build business capabilities, and achieve investment readiness. Our Feminist Impact Fund then provides concessionary loans to scale these earned-income models, leveraging long-standing partner relationships to de-risk investments ($7.36M deployed to date). Complementing these efforts, INNOVA Health Supplies, a global social enterprise co-founded with Fòs Feminista alliance partners, strengthens supply chains in Latin America by procuring affordable contraceptives and sexual and reproductive health products at scale, passing savings on to partners across Latin America.
Previously, Natasha held various investment and portfolio manager roles at Grand Challenges Canada, as well as leading the gender equality and venture advisory approach across the organization. She pioneered the operationalization of the first gender equality policy across the portfolio of 100+ investments and ensured grants and loans were deployed in a manner that promoted gender equality, women's empowerment, and social inclusion. She has also worked extensively as a consultant advising such varied organizations as Save the Children, ACDI/VOCA, WHO, the MasterCard Foundation, and Youth Challenge International.
Natasha is motivated by the question, “How can impact capital be strategically deployed to provide frontline organizations with the financial independence they need to advance sexual and reproductive health rights, free from the constraints of the traditional donor ecosystem and political winds?”
Natasha holds an MBA in Finance from INSEEC (Paris) an M.A. in Asia Pacific Management from Capilano University, and a B.A. in French Language and Literature from Western University. She has lived and worked in Nicaragua, Angola and Mozambique, and spent formative years at in Indian boarding school.
Voting Member: Natasha Cassinath
Member since 2026