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.
Exclusive interview: Cliff Prior, CEO of UnLtd, is to be the new head honcho at Big Society Capital. Prior tells Pioneers Post that the age of the hero social entrepreneur is over – and he can make engagement with the social sector really work.
"The market is sitting on a huge opportunity in this space. The first movers will gain the advantage." Ellie Ward talks to USAID about gender lens investing in Asia.
The world's first social investment bank Big Society Capital has announced the name of its new CEO. Cliff Prior, who has lead UnLtd for over eight years, is to take on the role early next year.
“I want to spend my life trying to prevent us needing a Dame Esther Rantzen” - declares The Big Issue's Lord John Bird at the Ashoka UK annual awards bash.
Baroness Glenys Thornton has long been a champion of social enterprise in the UK. The Labour peer and current CEO of The Young Foundation takes us to some of the places in East London that have shaped her career.
In the second Black Cab interview, former minister for equalities in the House of Lords Baroness Glenys Thornton reflects on her career and considers the challenges facing social enterprises in the UK.
The terms ‘social entrepreneurship’ and ‘social enterprise’ “dichotomise the commercial and the social spheres” argues Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.
At Critical Mass delegates and speakers dealt with social enterprise dilemmas and showcased global successes in the sector. Access the presentations from the plenary sessions and workshops here.
Minister for civil society Rob Wilson has today announced the UK government is providing £1.5m funding for a second tranche of the Impact Readiness Fund to support social enterprises and charities.
