Europeans have been hit hard by unprecedented crises over a hellish summer. As the EU negotiates its next multi-year budget, it’s time for the social economy to show both policymakers and citizens it has proven solutions to tackle them, writes Toby Gazeley from Brussels.
Travel is said to broaden your horizons, and the Latimpacto conference in the Brazilian city of Manaus this week gave delegates an ideal opportunity to bring fresh eyes to their work. We asked them what they were reconsidering.
In Delhi for the first time, Asia's largest philanthropy and impact investment network, AVPN, says that despite the region's 1,000+ billionaires, its biggest challenge is the lack of Asian money.
Your chance to nominate the UK's leading women in social impact, with four awards to be announced in March, including a new WISE100 Changemaker award recognising women who have been a driving force for positive change during the past year.
This week: ‘motherhood penalty’ beats back potential women social entrepreneurs, Asian impact investments on the rise, Spain’s social impact wholesaler gets up and running, and more.
As the Assad regime in Syria fell, and while war continued to rage in Gaza, a Jordanian social entrepreneur shares how he’s encouraging young people to stay hopeful amid war and uncertainty – including with the ‘Robot Football Olympics’.
Social investors are under fire for not meeting the needs of the social entrepreneurs they seek to support. Could a collaborative apporach to the creation of impact funds be the solution?
UK social investment industry still ‘designed to favour social bankers, not social businesses’, concludes Social Enterprise UK’s ‘report card’ on the Adebowale Commission.
BRUSSELS BRIEFING: The new European commissioner for jobs – whose role includes oversight of the social economy – has been announced. Our correspondent in Brussels, Euclid's Toby Gazeley, looks at the latest news from the EU.
Will “ESGI” be the acronym of 2025? And will the UK government modify employer tax changes announced in its recent budget? This week’s view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.
This week: UN launches International Year of Co-operatives, gender-lens impact investing funds treble in past nine years, £150m of lending capital announced for UK underserved small business, and more.
One third of social enterprises were pessimistic about new government’s potential impact on their business even before announcement of employer National Insurance Contribution increases, according to new report.
