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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.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.
A fund aimed at improving social investment infrastructure heads up our latest briefing. Plus Big Society Capital buys more shares in Charity Bank and UK leads the way in social innovation competition.
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Ahead of the AVPN conference in Bangkok next week, we profile three very different social investors that, just like AVPN, are not only about venture philanthropy.
The Beyond Good Business event, where profit and purpose sat happily side by side, encouraged corporates and social ventures to collaborate to make change happen.
A big improvement on the 2014 figure sees Welsh social enterprises packing a punch – the kind of punch that is worth £2.37bn to a nation of three million people.
Corporate scandals and economic meltdowns have been going on for hundreds of years, writes John Spiers, chief executive of EQ Investors. Isn't it about time we did something about it?
Students taking social entrepreneurship courses at higher education institutions may not become social entrepreneurs, writes Dr Pathik Pathak of Southampton University. But they’ll still be valuable to society.
Ahead of the Beyond Good Business event on 23 May, Dirk Bischof of Hatch Enterprise tells us why corporates and social enterprises working together can only be a good thing.
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network founder Douglas Miller tells us why JFK was an inspiration and how a business approach to philanthropy will create more social impact.
