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 This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.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.
Changing the world means scaling impact, not increasing the number of enterprises or even growing your own reach. Spring Impact’s Joe Kallarackal shares strategies for smarter thinking about scale.
A SOCAP first-timer is inspired by the American willingness to fund data, the power of influencers and some bold commitments on diversity – but wonders where the entrepreneurs and end users are.
The founder of In House Records – a record label under which all music is produced and performed by prisoners, and the winner of our 2019 Trailblazing Newcomer Award – talks us through his typical day.
In an open letter to the participants of the GSG Impact Summit, Mehrdad Baghai, Sean Hinton, Jacqueline Novogratz, Alejandro Preusche and Shane Tedjarati confront a "powerful hidden disruption of our core beliefs, principles and values".
INNOVATION FOCUS: Even with growing momentum behind using procurement for good, securing public sector contracts is elusive for most social enterprises. Can a startup help?
PLUS: Croatia’s first social impact fund, $100m financing partnership for emerging market ventures, new ‘repayable grants’ for Scottish environmental businesses, Canada’s MaRS Catalyst Fund rebrands and expands, and more.
