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  • Advice from the exhibition floor: how to survive and thrive at an impact conference stand

    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.

  • How to use AI without harming people and planet, with Nikoline Arns and James Gauci

    Two tech for good pioneers explore why small scale AI models can mitigate social and environmental harms and how open source technology can keep pace with Silicon Valley in episode three of the Good Experts podcast.  

  • TERN: Creating an entrepreneurial path to inclusion for refugees in a ‘cruel’ political landscape

    As the UK government changes its rules to make refugee status temporary, Charlie Fraser, co-founder of The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network, sees entrepreneurship as a way out of the refugee visa ‘doom loop’.

  • Social enterprise and impact investing events in 2026 and beyond

    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.

  • Pioneers Post Business School: How to do good business, better

    The tools and insight you need to do good business, better. Get expert advice, practical insight and frontline examples on key business management topics from our network of social business practitioners and advisors. 

What is child-lens investing?

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.

What is a B Corp?

IMPACT 101: Thousands of firms – including Patagonia, Triodos, Nespresso and The Guardian – now boast a ‘B’ symbol. But what exactly is a B Corp? How does certification work – and what difference will the new criteria make?

What is a cooperative?

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?