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.
A new study has revealed that high net worth individuals are put off impact investments due to concerns about complexity and a Cambodian social enterprise circus heads to the US.
The hero model is dead, long live collective impact. Co-founder of the SOCAP conference and long time disrupter Kevin Doyle Jones talks to Ellie Ward about hero worshipping, market taming and impact investment trends and challenges.
Demand for business support from start-up social ventures is set to increase by almost 50% but there are not enough organisations equipped to meet the sector's needs, warns new report.
"Providing world-class products and services is the expected norm" for brands such as Apple and John Lewis – the same should be so for social ventures.
It's time to end the contradiction and confusion when it comes to vocabulary in the social sector investment sphere. Impact investment, social investment, ethical investment – Phil Caroe from UK social investment charity Allia explains what's what.
Scotland’s social enterprise census reveals the sector provides more than 100,000 jobs and a new $1m fund for young social entrepreneurs is launched in New Zealand.
Cabinet minister Rob Wilson makes an appearance at a skatepark to show support for Social Saturday, which is aiming to heighten awareness of social enterprise with the public.
A new report by the Social Market Foundation and Big Society Capital calls for the introduction of Social Pension Funds in the UK to provide much needed capital for charities and social enterprises.
