As Convergence publishes figures showing the blended finance market held strong in 2024, it predicts that US-led international assistance budget cuts will put smaller, high-impact deals most at risk.
Pioneers Post and NatWest are seeking out the brightest and best applicants for this year's NatWest SE100 Social Business Awards. Don't miss your chance to be counted among the UK's top social enterprises this year.
People displaced by conflict don’t have to be passive recipients of donations. Vadym Georgienko explains how a pilot of the ‘Citizen Token System’, which he designed, has enabled entrepreneurs in a town in western Ukraine to thrive.
From tracking underwater creatures to optimising crop yields, many entrepreneurs now use AI to tackle environmental challenges. But, with much uncertainty – and concerns about AI’s negative impact – they’re entering unknown waters.
B Lab’s revised standards for B Corps currently omit ‘Impact Business Models’, one of the certification’s most promising tools for recognising the businesses that make the most meaningful impact, says Anton Simanowitz.
“I have the most amazing job in the world!” says Minnie Baragwanath, founder of Be. Accessible in New Zealand. She will be speaking at the Social Enterprise World Forum in September about her social enterprise journey.
The Beyond Good Business event, where profit and purpose sat happily side by side, encouraged corporates and social ventures to collaborate to make change happen.
A big improvement on the 2014 figure sees Welsh social enterprises packing a punch – the kind of punch that is worth £2.37bn to a nation of three million people.
Corporate scandals and economic meltdowns have been going on for hundreds of years, writes John Spiers, chief executive of EQ Investors. Isn't it about time we did something about it?
Students taking social entrepreneurship courses at higher education institutions may not become social entrepreneurs, writes Dr Pathik Pathak of Southampton University. But they’ll still be valuable to society.
“If you’re not on the first page of Google, you don’t exist,” one charity CEO told our authors. So how do you get on that first page? Three words: search engine optimisation.
Ahead of the Beyond Good Business event on 23 May, Dirk Bischof of Hatch Enterprise tells us why corporates and social enterprises working together can only be a good thing.
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network founder Douglas Miller tells us why JFK was an inspiration and how a business approach to philanthropy will create more social impact.
