EXPERT INSIGHT: Faith organisations holding billions of dollars of investment assets met in Paris for an inaugural conference last week and launched a new multi-faith network of investors and centre of excellence.
The Australian actor and philanthropist is putting his Hollywood star power behind Humanitix’s efforts to disrupt the ticket sales industry, aiming to grow the impact of the social enterprise five-fold.
EXPERT INSIGHT: New legislation puts social enterprises, co-operatives and other inclusive businesses at the centre of an economy that works for people, communities and the planet. And it’s part of a wider global conversation.
OPINION: Bonnie Chiu and Peter Ptashko have been to hundreds of conferences, yet still struggle to identify their value. Is there a more effective way to get capital moving for positive impact?
New data highlights the scale of the problem in British society and why social investors are well placed to address it, in first Better Society Index published this week.
Young social entrepreneurs are remarkably optimistic for the future. Is it naive, or can change really happen? This week's view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.
This week: AI firms’ ethics in the spotlight over US military contracts; Vogue and eBay’s vintage sale for social enterprise; and a new CEO for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Housing Trust Group.
‘I believe in revolution. I believe in devolution,’ says Coffee Afrik co-founder Abdirahim Hassan. He tells us how he took an east London cafe from a startup to a 32-project enterprise taking a groundbreaking approach to tackling deeply embedded trauma.
A benign and enabling AI, moving beyond GDP as a measure of success, and businesses embedding true-cost accounting – these should all be key attributes of Europe’s economy in 2040, according to a survey of young social entrepreneurs.
As the war in Ukraine continues, we remain committed to highlighting the social innovators who are finding solutions to some of its devastating impacts. This week's view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vitalii Diakov tells us about the journey that he and his wife took from Odesa to Dundee, and the social enterprise they founded.
A new study from Japan provides a refreshing perspective on impact investing – and a reality-check. Laura Joffre introduces this month's digest of impact investing news and analysis.
More than a fifth of Japanese consumers have heard of impact investing, with younger generations showing more interest in the practice, according to a new survey by the Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation.
