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.
As Trump’s USA takes its eye off social impact, Europe’s venture capitalists stand at a decisive moment in history, concluded discussions at the latest FASE Impact Fire Talk. But capital strategies must evolve to unleash VCs’ true transformative power.
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.
Change the way you shop, stop heading straight to giant corporate retailers and start thinking more ethically with our pick of the top 10 socially responsible buys.
In Ixtapa, Mexico Ron and Marlys Boehm tell Pioneers Post's Tim West about discovering social business, the inspiration they have found and the challenges they have helped social entrepreneurs to face as founders of Boma Investments.
In the first in a series of Leadership Laid Bare interviews, Pioneers Post's founder and editor Tim West meets Martin Cook – would-be rock legend, corporate leader with a conscience and one of the pioneers behind the new EY Foundation.
Dame Vivienne Westwood backs the UK's first live crowdfund and London's biggest solar-powered party to raise investment for renewable energy organisations.
Key steps to releasing $1 trillion into the social investment market were announced today as the G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investment, chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen, launched its concluding report.
The highly anticipated report from the G8 Social Investment Taskforce's UK Advisory Board sets out its vision for the social investment market in the UK and prioritises pension reform.
Social investment is on the UK Government's priority list this week – a new animation from the Cabinet Office has been released making stars of successful social investment applicants from across the UK.
In the latest Opportunity Collaboration interview Ladislav Kossar explains the process of developing a small organisation reliant on philanthropic grants to one with a sustainable model and international reach.
Oxfordshire has become a Social Enterprise place in time for Social Saturday – a day which aims to raise awareness for social enterprise in the UK. Internationally, Social Media Week seeks meaningful trends on various digital platforms.
