Cooler growth sign of a maturing market, according to the GIIN’s State And Size Of The Impact Investing Market 2026, while GIIN leaders suggest focus should turn to greater effectiveness.
We’ve asked leaders of the social enterprise and impact community about their takeaways on the Burnham government’s first budget. From homelessness to support for small businesses and community lenders, here’s what you need to know.
As protests grow around the world against the building of massive, environmentally destructive data centres to serve the ever growing demands of AI, one Australian social entrepreneur has developed a different type of AI data centre which meets his organisation’s social values.
Anara principal Mohamed Hussain talks to Pioneers Post about launching the region’s first early-stage impact VC fund, supporting investees in a febrile geopolitical context, and having clear roles in the region’s impact ecosystem.
AIBŌ won the Ford Family Foundation’s flagship event, which was hosted at Barclays Innovation Hub powered by Eagle Labs in Shoreditch on Tuesday 21 October. A £50,000 prize pot was shared between the six finalists.
Social enterprise Homes for Good takes its first step into London’s rental market, partnering with Crisis to launch Good Place Lettings. They aim to use the power of the private rented sector to alleviate homelessness.
The consensus text criticised for watering down corporate sustainability requirements had been approved by centre parties in committee last week, but MEPs narrowly rejected it in a plenary vote yesterday.
Commercial maps miss out huge swathes of land, leaving volunteer-powered, open-source maps to fill in the gaps. Getting that software and knowhow into the hands of local communities means they can boost their climate resilience – and their income.
It's time to face reality as EU corporate sustainbility laws are further undermined, why we're trying to avoid acronyms, and a few reasons to read our latest explainer. This week's view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.
This week: Skoll Foundation to relocate to Washington DC and 'reshape team'; business leaders campaign for sustainable economy ahead of COP30; US$500m ethical AI initiative launched.
EU parliament committee doubles down on the bloc’s sustainability simplification drive, hardening proposals in the controversial “Omnibus” package that have come under fire for diluting flagship corporate impact reporting regulation.
The Rural Social Enterprise Gathering 2025 will take place in Malaysia at the end of October, bringing together hundreds of social entrepreneurs to focus on the distinct challenges faced by communities outside the world’s urban areas. It will be about ‘sharing like family’, predicts one of the key speakers.
