Nurturing the Amazon’s bio-entrepreneurs and switching the power balance with investees are just two of the potentially transformative ideas for impact finance discussed during this week’s Latimpacto conference in Medellín.
Product launch: How a UK social enterprise is getting the soap industry into a right lather – and solving climate and social issues at the same time – with new product launch SUDZERØ.
Mission-driven business leaders, including Paul Polman, Safia Minney and Guy Singh-Watson, spearhead campaign urging UK government to uphold international law and prevent further acts of genocide in Gaza.
IMPACT 101: What does child-lens investing actually involve, who’s doing it – and what prevents more investors from jumping in? Find out in our latest explainer, with Save the Children’s Mauricio Preciado-Awad.
Good Stories podcast episode 6: With £1.3bn being pumped into one of Scotland's poorest areas, social enterprise The Granton Project is ensuring that local communities truly benefit. Our reporter David Lyons finds out more.
The number of social enterprises with equity, diversity and inclusion strategies has been steadily growing over the past five years, despite fresh challenges, reveals our deep dive into data from the SE100 Index and Social Business Awards.
Homelessness is a complex problem widely misunderstood, and Emmaus Norwich has a simple model to address it. The furniture restoration and home clearance social enterprise is getting people off the fringes of society.
Banks owned by members that put customers before profit have a long heritage in Italy. After 150 years, they're still going against the grain. And they're resilient enough to innovate during a recession – and measure their impact.
In urban Kenya, women that can't afford to pay for care face enormous risks giving birth. Nick Pearson heads up Jacaranda Health, a social enterprise that's working to tackle the problem, and he's taking tips from FedEx.
With political debate in full swing, the businesses at the heart of the social enterprise movement share their hopes and fears at the prospect of independence.
Private investors have committed $1.5bn to businesses creating social and environmental value. But impact investment is still just a tiny corner of the global market.
The UK Law Commission is considering giving charities the power to weigh in on social investment. Luke Fletcher, a partner at the law firm Bates Wells Braithwaite explains why this is an exciting development.
Designers were called to embrace their creative powers and use them to solve social problems at the launch of London's "Dirty Rotten Socials" discussion series.
