North Star initiative launched at Global Partnerships Conference last week, as UK ministers seek to improve cooperation across sectors and give more agency to countries in the global south – while development aid cuts bite.
As conflict continues in the Middle East, Jordan-based Andrew Gharaibeh Collingwood shares how the region’s support organisations are continuing to develop the impact finance market and back social enterprises.
EXPERT INSIGHT Millions of hectares of degraded, dried out peatlands across Europe are a huge climate risk. Attracting the billions of euros of private capital they need to be restored could lie in not only carbon, but water, says Matt Robinson.
OPINION: Lasting impact doesn’t come from individual heroics, says serial social entrepreneur Jeroo Billimoria. A fixation on entrepreneurial ‘saviours’ risks obscuring the true collaborative nature of change.
The annual NatWest SE100 awards ceremony took place in Manchester this week celebrating the UK’s most pioneering leaders, as the awards partner highlights the power and necessity of the social enterprise movement.
Blood transfusion, marine plastic and domestic violence among areas tackled by She Shapes AI Global Award winners announced at a gathering at the London School of Economics, UK.
Funders must see disability as at the “intersection of everything”, say entrepreneurs at the Skoll World Forum, where a cohort of leaders championing inclusive public health took to the stage.
With a revolutionary approach based on seismology, the Earth Rover Program is making waves in soil health testing and is aiming for the “Holy Grail” of farming: high crop yields with low environmental impacts.
Bring your sandwich, speak English, stay true to your ethics and other tips: impact entrepreneurs at ChangeNOW share advice on landing deals, partners and customers at a conference exhibition.
Ready to network, learn and get inspired? Don't book your diary without the Pioneers Post roundup of impact economy events coming soon – for social entrepreneurs, impact investors and all those working within the global impact economy.
An enterprise rescuing wasted food for schools, a CIC providing trauma-informed training, a hospitality business accelerating race equity and an organisation helping visually impaired people travel – meet the NatWest SE100 Impact Pioneer finalists.
The Hollywood actor and practising Buddhist on the purpose of life – and why his new project aims to counter “a very dark time”: Anna Patton reports from the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England.
