EXPERT INSIGHT: When a significant impact investment meets founders who have not previously been stress-tested at this scale, new threats appear, warns risk analysis and fraud specialist Rupert Evill.
Good Leaders podcast: Creating a good place to work, balancing commercial acumen with social value, and why she relishes a crisis: this year’s SE100 Pioneer of the Future Award winner shares her leadership insights with Tim West.
Bring your sandwich, speak English, stay true to your ethics and other tips: impact entrepreneurs at ChangeNOW share advice on landing deals, partners and customers at a conference exhibition.
EXPERT INSIGHT Millions of hectares of degraded, dried out peatlands across Europe are a huge climate risk. Attracting the billions of euros of private capital they need to be restored could lie in not only carbon, but water, says Matt Robinson.
Ready to network, learn and get inspired? Don't book your diary without the Pioneers Post roundup of impact economy events coming soon – for social entrepreneurs, impact investors and all those working within the global impact economy.
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Live and on camera at the Social Enterprise World Forum in Canada, Pioneers Post TV hears from some of the delegates (including Social Enterprise UK CEO "Pistol" Pete Holbrook) on what they hope to achieve at the conference.
The UK social investment space is messy and contradictory, with huge opportunities laced with elements of arrogance and naivety. That’s social innovation for you, says Liam Black in his latest missive
Dizzy about spin-outs? There's not a lot of data about how these employee-led organisations work or the impact they have, but a recent study brings new evidence to the debate.
Failure is statistically commonplace in the the start-up world, and a reality that struck the Create Foundation and all of the passionate social entrepreneurs behind it. In the final part of the Create story, Matt Black talks to Create's ex-chair, Norman Pickavance, about what he's learned.
The Create story continues, as Norman Pickavance and Matt Black consider the external and internal factors that steered a social enterprise success to community interest company (CIC) crisis.
