News and Views

  • B Lab suspends new B Corp accreditations for companies operating in Russia and Belarus

    Organisation behind B Corp certification issues moratorium on companies operating in Russia or Belarus, saying situation raises “very significant questions” for good business movement, and that other crises deserved similar attention.

  • ‘We’re sleepwalking back into business as usual’, Social Procurement Festival attendees warned

    Social Procurement Festival: Social Enterprise UK’s Andrew O’Brien urges businesses to take on the “real challenge” of changing how they operate, while Social Value UK’s Catherine Manning lays out what good social value practice means. 

  • Laudes Foundation’s Leslie Johnston named chair of EVPA

    Leslie Johnston, previously the first executive director of the C&A Foundation, will replace Steven Serneels at the helm of the European network of investors for impact.
     

  • Better terms, better impact – but can impact-linked finance overcome a chicken-and-egg situation?

    How to incentivise social entrepreneurs to make even more impact? How to protect impact businesses against mission drift? Impact-linked finance, the youngest kid in the impact investing family, offers some solutions.

  • Opinion: Ask kids which problem they'll solve, not which career they'll choose

    The changemaking bug often starts early in life – and the earlier the start, the bigger the ambition, according to Ashoka research. All the more important for adults to be ‘non-controlling allies’ who encourage the innovators of the future.