Last year's SE100 Trailblazing Newcomer award-winner Change Please will shortly pitch for a share of the $1m Chivas Venture prize for social enterprises worldwide. We discussed the importance of ethical supply chains with founder Cemal Ezel.
A number of corporates are tired of attracting "cut-throat, high achievers" and are taking lessons from social enterprises in seeking a more diverse workforce, it was revealed at the UnLtd Big Social event last week.
"Big businesses are finding that employees have a conscience and want to do something good." Margaret Mountford, former advisor to Sir Alan Sugar on the BBC's 'The Apprentice', tells UnLtd's Big Social audience in London.
Crying in pubs, feeling zombified, experiencing chest pain... social entrepreneurs can give so much that their own wellbeing suffers. Claudia Cahalane explores how to avoid leadership burnout.
... Social Investment Tax Relief that is. When social entrepreneur Matt Fountain needed investment, he gave social finance organisations a miss and used his network, using SITR as an incentive.
Recent forays into phone leasing and build-your-own kits could herald a turning point for the mobile phone industry away from $500mn worth of wasted metals a year says Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Delegates discussed whether women were less risk tolerant than men and if they were put off by removal of grant-funded element of support at the Good Deals social investment conference last week.
