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.
Dr Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning and Divine Chocolate's Sophi Tranchell received Good Deals Pioneers Awards for inspiring work at Good Deals 13 and showed how a troublemaking spirit and rebellion were key to creating change.
A new Social Investment Tax Relief is due to launch in the UK next summer, but Good Deals speaker warns of limited impact and delegates raise concerns at narrow focus.
Winners recognised by RBS SE100 Index judges for their strong growth, high standards of social impact reporting and solid business arrangements at 2013 awards ceremony.
Foundations have a wealth of knowledge around social issues, Good Deals hears from Caroline Mason, the incoming head of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
The market is small, bespoke and delicately poised, chair of Big Lottery England tells Good Deals delegates. A blend of patience and impatience is required.
Pioneers Post hears from St Giles Trust, Social Finance's expert data-crunchers and ex-offenders to find out why the Peterborough prison social impact bond pilot it working.
