Innovation funded by UNICEF is changing the way the charity can protect children and raise funds. Ahead of her appearance at the Social Enterprise World Forum, we got excited about innovation with CEO of UNICEF NZ Vivien Maidaborn.

Kilmarnock in New Zealand employs 80 people with intellectual disabilities, delivers commercial contracts for big businesses and is about to launch its own training academy. But just a few years ago the organisation was at breaking point.

Ahead of his appearance at the Social Enterprise World Forum in September, serial social entrepreneur Sir Ray Avery explains his motivation to make millions of people's lives better.

“I have the most amazing job in the world!” says Minnie Baragwanath, founder of Be. Accessible in New Zealand. She will be speaking at the Social Enterprise World Forum in September about her social enterprise journey.

As media partner to the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017, Pioneers Post will bring you a series of thought-provoking articles and interviews in the coming months.

Next year’s Social Enterprise World Forum will be held in Christchurch. The host, the Ākina Foundation, believes that bringing the event to New Zealand is a huge opportunity to grow the country’s bubbling social enterprise sector.