Cooler growth sign of a maturing market, according to the GIIN’s State And Size Of The Impact Investing Market 2026, while GIIN leaders suggest focus should turn to greater effectiveness.
EXPERT INSIGHT: More digital tools don’t always mean greater impact. From an AI adviser in Ireland to simpler systems in Croatia, Euclid Network’s DiGi-SEII project explores how a focused digital strategy can help small teams achieve more.
This week: UnLtd CEO Mark Norbury to step down; Anthropic launches US$48bn public benefit fund; UK government launches £2bn green energy fund alongside gas field approval; and more.
Wealthy families can fund unproven ideas and absorb failure in ways governments and big foundations can't. A Bridgepan Group study of the world's richest families finds Asia's giving is tightly bound to the businesses and governments around it.
This week: UK PM receives social enterprise socks; Call for clearer recognition of impact-driven businesses across Europe; Global gender parity still 120 years away, says WEF, and more.
Social Enterprise World Forum’s Social Investment Manifesto calls for a reframing of social investment, as social enterprises remain excluded from investment opportunities in a market still split between profit maximisation and philanthropy.
INTERVIEW: Ronnie Screwvala built and sold a media empire. Now he's applying the same operating discipline to poverty, arguing that most Indian philanthropy still doesn't know how to let go.
Two social entrepreneurs united to launch a support hub for new parents in a village in Senegal. Now, as Good Start Challenge winners, the founders are now looking to take what they've learned further afield.
Lessons in protecting democracy for impact investors from the UK's record-breaking political donations: this week's view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.
This week: Civil Society and impact economy briefs split between two ministers in UK; Earthshot Prize reveals 2026 finalists; SEWF announces next host city; and more…
Autocracy is on the rise worldwide, and impact investors seem reluctant to step in. But large-scale transformations to health, education or the environment need a strong democratic base, the Latimpacto event heard last week.
Europeans have been hit hard by unprecedented crises over a hellish summer. As the EU negotiates its next multi-year budget, it’s time for the social economy to show both policymakers and citizens it has proven solutions to tackle them, writes Toby Gazeley from Brussels.
