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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.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.
In the third extract from his new book The Social Entrepreneur's A to Z, Liam Black recalls a moment of realisation when launching a new venture – don't assume you know what your customers want, get down to the frontline and find out.
Big Lottery Fund, Big Society Capital and the Cabinet Office have teamed up to launch Access: The Foundation for Social Investment to provide £100m of support to assist social ventures struggling to access finance.
There have been several high profile government outsourcing failures, so organisations that operate for social impact should be ministers' first point of call in the future, argues ClearlySo's Rod Schwartz in his latest column.
"This book will lift your spirits and make you laugh," says one review of Liam Black's new book. We present the second extract from The Social Entrepreneur's A to Z which focuses on essential (sometimes forgotten) business basics.
Lessons learned from a microfinance enterprise in Cambodia show that to deliver maximum social impact, social enterprises must move beyond a focus on only delivering good products.
Who needs teachers? Fergal Byrne talks to Akshay Saxena about the social enterprise that is taking an unconventional approach to providing high quality education to low-income school students in India.
“There will never be enough investment, so it’s our task to get as much as possible from the investment that is available and make it go further than ever before,” explains the CEO of UK-based First Ark Group.
In her latest column for Pioneers Post, accidental social entrepreneur Helen Trevaskis recalls the lessons she's learnt over "these last (many and tortuous) months" spent trying to create the perfect business plan.
Social business analyst Dave Masom reflects on Darwin's theory of evolution to explain how impact measurement can be done in a way that doesn't eat up too many of your precious resources.
