Leading voices from UK social enterprise, co-operatives and social investment have raised concerns over a “landmark” definition of the ‘impact economy’ that risks alienating a number of impactful organisations.
Impact Europe today revealed the name of its new chief: Angela Wiebeck, praised for “building bridges” between mainstream finance and impact over her two decades at UBS and Aquila Capital. She speaks to Pioneers Post from Brussels.
OPINION: There’s a message blowing across the Atlantic that the business of investment is to maximise return, and considering people and planet is woke nonsense. This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.
INTERVIEW: Putting a price tag on a company’s social and environmental impact is the only way to demonstrate its true profit and loss, believes Sir Ronald Cohen, who is now focusing on driving forward the next accounting revolution.
Combining capital with purpose has the “unstoppable” potential to make poverty history – but there's work to do, says Amit Bhatia. Watch him speak as a part of our In the Spotlight series.
Decreasing trust levels, lack of transparency, costly financial models – could blockchain provide the answers to some of the biggest challenges faced in the social impact sector right now? Or are we letting the hype cloud the reality?
Social impact bonds elicit strong opinions – from great enthusiasm about what they could achieve to passionate opposition to their complexity. Mara Airoldi cuts through the noise to take a hard look at the evidence we have about their effectiveness to date.
Inside: blockchain technology as a potential new force for good in the social impact galaxy, global focus on Greece, and two brand new features, our chain reaction interview series and The Guv'nor.
We hop back in the cab with London Early Years Foundation's June O'Sullivan, and discover social enterprise nurseries in action, and why she'd like to be remembered as a "disruptive influencer".
We've proved that considering social value in public procurement can work, now – post-Carillion – the UK government must have the courage to help it reach its full potential, says the author of the Social Value Act.
