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.
Stories from the Opportunity Colaboration: Pioneers Post founding editor Tim West meets the founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning, the Professor Sakena Yacoobi.
On Purpose fellow Melanie Yap writes the second in our three part blog series about the year long programme for social innovators looking to move from the private sector to 'making a difference.'
Wray Irwin of the University of Northampton asks some difficult questions of our society and its values. Should social innovators aim to fix or reinvent the system?
The employee owned Baxi Partnership is thirty. Peter Stocks, managing partner, looks back over the changes in employee ownership and forward to the growth of the sector.
UK housing associations spend around £13bn a year, but social enterprises are not working with housing associations as much as they could be says Peter Holbrook, chief executive of Social Enterprise UK.
Rob Greenland who co-runs Leeds-based Social Business Brokers, launched 'Leeds Empties Week' as a way of tackling social issues. Rob Looks back at his week.