A new framework from Social Investment Business and New Philanthropy Capital aims to help funders, policymakers and investors better understand what market infrastructure is required to grow the impact economy.
Will geopolitics push social enterprise to the bottom of the inbox? Will power be truly shared through devolution? Will progress made so far be forgotten? We asked leaders from across the impact community to share their perspective on the new PM.
OPINION: The UK's impact economy must seize the moment with the move of The Office for the Impact Economy to DCMS. Published today, a new proposal for how to define it from NPC and Social Investment Business should help.
INTERVIEW: The founding CEO of FASE knows what it means to do impact-first investing that works for social enterprises. As he takes on one of the most influential European impact investing roles, he shares his vision with Pioneers Post.
As Convergence publishes figures showing the blended finance market held strong in 2024, it predicts that US-led international assistance budget cuts will put smaller, high-impact deals most at risk.
B Lab’s revised standards for B Corps currently omit ‘Impact Business Models’, one of the certification’s most promising tools for recognising the businesses that make the most meaningful impact, says Anton Simanowitz.
In the week of the 40th anniversary of the Bradford City stadium disaster, King Charles is in Bradford to celebrate impact in the city. This week’s view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.
This week: UK trusts collaborate to back first Black female-founded social investor; Aunnie Patton Power aims to scale ‘innovative finance’; Tribe acquires Snowball – and B Corps feature in their own film series.
INTERVIEW: B Lab co-lead Sarah Schwimmer explains why new B Corp standards are more stringent, how the movement is facing up to Trump's threats and why it’s vital that all B Corps take collective action to transform capitalism.
The newly launched Arab Impact Network aims to build an inclusive movement of impact organisations and ‘change the region’s narrative from one of scarcity to opportunity’.
People displaced by conflict don’t have to be passive recipients of donations. Vadym Georgienko explains how a pilot of the ‘Citizen Token System’, which he designed, has enabled entrepreneurs in a town in western Ukraine to thrive.
Media advice for impact startups, AI's fragile balance between good and bad and breaking barriers for impact VC. This week’s view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.
