Paul Chan says Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to channel capital for good, while Naina Subberwal Batra opens the AVPN annual conference with a call for Asia’s impact community to take the lead in building a more inclusive world.
New accreditation, launched by the Better Business Network, aims to reduce barriers for small businesses to prove their impact while aligning with government net zero and social value policies.
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.
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.
Combining capital with purpose has the “unstoppable” potential to make poverty history – but there's work to do, says Amit Bhatia. Watch him speak as a part of our In the Spotlight series.
Decreasing trust levels, lack of transparency, costly financial models – could blockchain provide the answers to some of the biggest challenges faced in the social impact sector right now? Or are we letting the hype cloud the reality?
Social impact bonds elicit strong opinions – from great enthusiasm about what they could achieve to passionate opposition to their complexity. Mara Airoldi cuts through the noise to take a hard look at the evidence we have about their effectiveness to date.
An 80-minute documentary film examining whether social impact bonds can revolutionise how we tackle society's problems will be shown in Oxford today, featuring Sir Ronald Cohen, Caroline Mason – and four-year-old Reginald.
In the basement of a homeless shelter, close to The White House, Chris Martin from Scotland’s Callander Youth Project talks to Mike Curtin, CEO of DC Central Kitchen about Mike’s “glorious ride” so far, hunger strikes and the importance of humility.
Inside: blockchain technology as a potential new force for good in the social impact galaxy, global focus on Greece, and two brand new features, our chain reaction interview series and The Guv'nor.
