• UK social enterprise ‘top 100’ 2025 opens for nominations

    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 a Ukrainian community is using ‘citizen tokens’ to move beyond aid

    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.

  • Finding the AI balance: how to use AI for good without trashing the planet and its people

    As entrepreneurs eager to use artificial intelligence for the greater good grapple with AI’s negative impacts on people and planet, speakers at the ChangeNow conference offer practical solutions to create a truly sustainable AI.

  • Making waves: The new generation of startups using AI to save the planet

    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.

  • How to unlock VCs’ full impact potential

    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.

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#14 Social innovator's weekly round-up

Human rights groups in Egypt have raised the alarm that the country's NGOs are under threat because of a new law taking away their autonomy. Elsewhere, an innovative campaign in Wisconsin, USA has been launched to promote social entrepreneurship.  

"Don't procrastinate, just do it," says orthopedics entrepreneur turned early stage social investor John Ayliffe

How do you decide between one social investment and another? Meet the hip implant entrepreneur who's developing an investment club to support social start-ups, in our latest series of interviews from the Opportunity Collaboration.

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#13 Social innovator's weekly round-up

Corporate giants L'Oréal and Nespresso demonstrate their commitment to gender equality and environmentally responsible business practise. Meanwhile in France the new economy minister is raising eyebrows and causing a Twitter frenzy.