India’s IAN Fund and Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation back circular economy company Phool.co, which employs marginalised women to turn discarded temple flowers into luxury incense products.
The co-founder of a Middle East coding school and nonprofit on student dropout rates, rethinking team roles, and spending 24 hours a day with her co-founder. Plus, the Istanbul trainer getting to grips with a whole new way of working.
Deadline days: don't miss out on the latest emergency grants, loans and other funding sources for social enterprises, charities and community groups around the world.
Deadline days: don't miss out on the latest emergency grants, loans and other funding sources for social enterprises, charities and community groups around the world.
Be patient, flexible and targeted to areas of need: new data from the UK's £142m Futurebuilders England Fund – launched back in 2004 – suggests lessons for what will make future social investment work.
To-do list for new CEO at Big Society Capital sets out plans for ambitious growth, better communications, more flexible finance and action on diversity – quadrennial review highlights key successes, failings and challenges ahead.
Cambridge Social Innovation Prize: “Social enterprises have formed a key plank in our pandemic response. They need our support to meet the explosion in demand for their proven, impactful interventions,” says Baroness Glenys Thornton.
A special feature by Pioneers Post and social entrepreneur Jess Thompson – whose fear and sense of powerlessness on being hospitalised with Covid-19 were brought into sharp relief through conversations with Migrateful's refugee chefs.
