• NPC’s ‘impact economy’ definition: a ‘missed opportunity’ or chance to collaborate better?

    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.

  • ‘We need to have a unified voice’: Impact Europe’s new CEO Angela Wiebeck

    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.

  • Trump’s chilly bluster must be countered by warmer winds

    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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.

  • Sir Ronald Cohen: ‘Transparency is going to disrupt companies delivering negative impacts’

    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.

Economic recovery: Modernising money

Ian Tennant looks at a bid to change the way that money is created so that it can flow to where it is most needed, and asks what part will you play in creating a new paradigm for money?
 
Ian Tennant
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Can social finance meet social need?

Following the launch of a new paper investigating the social finance landscape, Helen Heap, social investment manager at employment charity Tomorrow’s People, questions whether currently available social finance models are fit for purpose to fund community based social enterprises.  

Helen Heap

Why social enterprise shouldn't set the bar too high

Following the Social Enterprise Alliance summit in Minnesota, Jerr Boschee, co-founder of the event and former advisor to the Social Enterprise Unit at the UK Department of Trade and Industry, talks about progress, and the pitfalls of setting the bar too high.

Isabelle de Grave
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Hear no evil, see no evil... and invest for good

Eight years in the social investment arena, including launching its pioneering Social Bond Programme, have taught the folks at Investing for Good that some subtle differences between what you hear and see inform what you must do to make the vision of good investment a reality.

Gabi Blumberg