IMPACT 101: Cooperatives are big business: more than 1bn people are cooperative members, and the top 300 cooperatives and mutuals turn over more than US$2tn. But how do these entities work, and what are their benefits and drawbacks?
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Pioneers Post has teamed up with the Social Investment Business to present a collection of stories that explore how social ventures across the UK are using investment readiness grants to increase their impact and realise their BIG potential.
If you want to "transform lives in a way that hasn’t been achieved before, you need the disruption that social investment creates," says Jeremy Swain from Thames Reach. He talks investment readiness and SIBs with Ellie Ward.
Social impact is about more than numbers and words on a page – it’s about asking big questions and finding answers, writes Dave Masom in his exploration of social impact measurement.
In the fourth of a series of podcasts to accompany his new book, Liam Black talks to founder of Fair Finance Faisel Rahman OBE about social enterprise PR culture and VIP awards ceremonies – you've just got to develop a good bullshit detector.
Calling all social entrepreneur VIPs – Liam Black has a reality check for you. In an extract from The Social Entrepreneur's A to Z, he questions the glitz and glamour of the social enterprise award calendar and says you must keep your feet on the ground.
"Few organisations are geared up to know if they are creating as much social value as they can with the resources they have" – Jeremy Nicholls argues that better is not good enough, it's time to start optimising social value creation.
From Brazil's biggest cosmetics company to a US wealth management firm, more and more companies are registering as B Corporations. Should you get involved? Yes! says James Perry.
Payment by results sounds straightforward, right? But if you get involved in one of these contracts you need to ditch traditional costing and pricing models for a new way of looking at things, warns consultant Nicolas Ponset.
