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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.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.
Impact investment can be risky, but a new report has found that there are seven things you should be looking out for to reduce the risks of your investment strategy.
To tackle societal problems we need more social enterprise and more social innovation, and we also need to understand in the simplest of terms why they are differents says Nathaniel Smith.
Science-backed evidence shows sex, survival and the search for an excellent mate could be what drives social entrepreneurs. Nathaniel Smith investigates.
As foundations explore beyond the offer of grants to support social organisations, the latest open data compiled by the UK government provides an early snapshot of their activities in the emerging social investment landscape.
Dr Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning and Divine Chocolate's Sophi Tranchell received Good Deals Pioneers Awards for inspiring work at Good Deals 13 and showed how a troublemaking spirit and rebellion were key to creating change.
