MY IMPACT CAREER: Amma Lartey, a long-time entrepreneur, has been a major force in growing the impact economy in West Africa, co-founding Social Enterprise Ghana and becoming the first CEO of Impact Investing Ghana.
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.
How can impact investing claim to drive systemic change when its leadership mirrors the same patriarchal and exclusionary structures it seeks to dismantle – and how can we start changing this?
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.
Since taking on social investment, FareShare is gutsier than ever as it approaches the challenge of salvaging the 400,000 tonnes of food wasted in the UK food industry.
Tim West, Pioneers Post's founder and editor, talks to M’Hammed Abbad Andaloussi in Mexico about running an NGO like a business and encouraging entrepreneurship in young people.
Today a £30m fund launches in the UK, the largest ever to serve the social sector to date. Mainstream bank Santander is invested and Chancellor George Osborne likes the sound of it.
Iqbal Wahhab OBE is a successful restaurateur with a commitment to creating social value through business. He called in the expertise of Sarah Forster to determine just how social his profitable Borough Market restaurant is.
Fergal Byrne speaks to investment banker turned social entrepreneur Connie Duckworth about creating opportunities for Afghan women and promoting gender equality in one of the most hostile environments in the world.
Against a backdrop of government cuts and diverse financial innovations, six current funding trends could translate into opportunities for charities and social businesses.
In the age of the social intrapreneur, Richard Northcote of Bayer MaterialScience gives an inside look at his work leveraging the expertise of chemicals giant Bayer to build affordable housing in the Philippines and beyond.
The Big Society theme of David Cameron's campaign at the 2010 election continues to get a bashing even though it has been dropped. But should the effort to impose the Big Society concept onto today's tired systems be maintained?
A new book by Anton Simanowitz and Katherine Knotts starts with Selia's story, a woman from Cambodia and beneficiary of microcredit. As she tells her story a pressing issue comes to light – the unintended consequences of doing good.
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