EXPERT INSIGHT: When a significant impact investment meets founders who have not previously been stress-tested at this scale, new threats appear, warns risk analysis and fraud specialist Rupert Evill.
British Business Bank announces £90m commitment across 10 microfunds led by teams from diverse backgrounds, including three that received funding and support from Pathway Fund’s incubator programme.
OPINION: Social entrepreneurs feel increasingly disconnected from the $1.5tn allocated to impact and which claims to be on their side. This is what happens when capital forgets to put impact first, says Caroline Bressan of Open Road Impact.
OPINION: If impact investment is about improving people’s lives, why are those people's voices often absent from investment decisions? Capital is being allocated on incomplete information.
This week: What Canada’s first state of social enterprise survey in 10 years reveals, UK impact leaders celebrated in King’s Birthday Awards, 50 Europeans impact startups to watch announced, and more.
Award-winning social entrepreneur Keely Dalfen talks to Tim West about how she leads anti-poverty charity the Brick with quiet determination: running a charity like a business, making brutal calls on money when needed – and putting the dignity of the people they support first and foremost.
OPINION: Social entrepreneurs feel increasingly disconnected from the $1.5tn allocated to impact and which claims to be on their side. This is what happens when capital forgets to put impact first, says Caroline Bressan of Open Road Impact.
New research quantifies “tradeoff” between impact and financial return for the first time, but warns not to confuse cost of creating impact with fund inefficiency and calls for more philanthropic capital to back impact-first investing.
The SEWF biennial event, normally one of the biggest gatherings of social entrepreneurs from across the world, will not take place in 2027, but organisers will convene delegates regionally.
The CEO of the UK’s blended finance wholesaler leaves an impressive record from his 11-year tenure, but his successor will have to meet high ambitions and upcoming challenges.
