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Impact conferences are an opportunity to discover perspectives from around the world. This month, Pioneers Post was in India and Brazil to bring you the latest on the conversations that matter for social entrepreneurs and impact investors.

Wealthy families can fund unproven ideas and absorb failure in ways governments and big foundations can't. A Bridgepan Group study of the world's richest families finds Asia's giving is tightly bound to the businesses and governments around it.

INTERVIEW: Ronnie Screwvala built and sold a media empire. Now he's applying the same operating discipline to poverty, arguing that most Indian philanthropy still doesn't know how to let go.

In an exclusive interview, AVPN's CEO explains why she won't announce a Bangkok financing coalition until the funders are lined up, why Asian philanthropists won't say the word "gender", and why her own country stopped listening to its neighbours.

Five years after India and China forced COP26 to soften to “phase down” on coal, climate change activists at the AVPN conference say the fight has quietly moved to adaptation money – but the storms battering Asia's coastlines aren't waiting.

In Delhi for the first time, Asia's largest philanthropy and impact investment network, AVPN, says that despite the region's 1,000+ billionaires, its biggest challenge is the lack of Asian money.

As social investment network AVPN turns 10, its first Asian boss explains how she's translating the foreign concept of venture philanthropy, why the “cloak of joint decision-making” is so powerful – and why she was an unlikely candidate for CEO.

Social entrepreneurs in South East Asia face significant barriers to growth – and so do many small businesses owners. New research highlights how governments, investors and others can give social enterprises a better chance of taking off.