News and Views

Business and finance came together to back the blue economy at the UN Ocean Conference last week – but with the US conspicuously absent, their commitments may be in vain.

This week: discover the ‘first professor for the impact economy’, survey reveals young changemakers risk online backlash and financial struggles, global universities ranked according to positive impact – and much more.

Momentum grows among companies and investors to back a sustainable “blue economy” – while governments turn to the private sector to mobilise capital towards the most underfunded SDG at international gathering in Nice last week.

OBEs, CBEs and MBEs awarded to UK impact leaders and social entrepreneurs for their public service.

This week: Church of England prepares for controversy over reparations fund; catalytic EU funding creates three Eastern European impact funds; Hey Girls’ Celia Hodson’s next move; DEI nosedive; a new funders platform for Asia, and more.

Six organisations focused on making positive impacts to the environment revealed as Ashden Award winners at the ceremony’s 25th anniversary. 

Sir Ronald Cohen, the impact investing pioneer, is pre-launching an artificial intelligence avatar which discusses his ideas and reflections. We put it to the test.

Why social enterprise ticketing platform Humanitix is reshaping events accessibility: this week’s view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.

This week: ‘not-for-profit’ actor Michael Sheen recognised by Time magazine, GIIN focuses on Japan’s ‘inspiring’ momentum for impact investing, and B Corps continue to rise.