A draft new law that could give steward ownership an EU-wide legal status is progressing through the European Union’s legislative machine – and campaigners are working hard to save a decisive amendment from being scrapped.
Mission-led businesses are more resilient and grow faster than the UK average, but they still only represent a small fraction of the UK’s business landscape, reveals study of Companies House data produced by Allia Impact and Beauhurst Insights.
INTERVIEW: The founding CEO of FASE knows what it means to do impact-first investing that works for social enterprises. As he takes on one of the most influential European impact investing roles, he shares his vision with Pioneers Post.
North American and European investors are some of the biggest providers of impact capital to Asia, creating a power imbalance and impeding the continent’s ambitions to become an impact investing leader. What are the solutions? Laura Joffre reports from the AVPN conference in Hong Kong.
New accreditation, launched by the Better Business Network, aims to reduce barriers for small businesses to prove their impact while aligning with government net zero and social value policies.
Paul Chan says Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to channel capital for good, while Naina Subberwal Batra opens the AVPN annual conference with a call for Asia’s impact community to take the lead in building a more inclusive world.
This week: Net Zero Banking Alliance stops operations after mass exodus, UnLtd shifts its endowment investment strategy, impact film Underseen available to the public, and more…
A glimpse into the future, telling better stories, and bringing capitalism to the heart of the Amazon rainforest: the view from the Pioneers Post newsroom, this week in Medellín, Colombia.
Product launch: How a UK social enterprise is getting the soap industry into a right lather – and solving climate and social issues at the same time – with new product launch SUDZERØ.
Nurturing the Amazon’s bio-entrepreneurs and switching the power balance with investees are just two of the potentially transformative ideas for impact finance discussed during this week’s Latimpacto conference in Medellín.
Social Enterprise Scotland's latest census shows sharp drop in optimism across the sector since 2021 in the face of inflation, rising wages and supply chain issues.
Mission-driven business leaders, including Paul Polman, Safia Minney and Guy Singh-Watson, spearhead campaign urging UK government to uphold international law and prevent further acts of genocide in Gaza.
