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This week: What Canada’s first state of social enterprise survey in 10 years reveals, UK impact leaders celebrated in King’s Birthday Awards, 50 Europeans impact startups to watch announced, and more.

This week: Sir Ronald Cohen’s social investment solution for UK child poverty, Kresse Wesling bags $100k Cartier impact award, Mirova merger – and more.

This week: IA50 identifies boom in ‘institutional scale’ impact investment fund managers, first-of-its kind social enterprise loan fund launches in Australia, and discover the incoming Canadian PM’s position on impact investing.

This week: US ‘denounces’ the SDGs; UK B Corps boom; Tony’s Chocolonely left bitter by European Commission, and more.

This week featuring the latest on the UN’s Social and Solidarity Economy resolution, UK PM Keir Starmer’s commitment to social enterprises, and what young people know about B Corps.

IMPACT 101: Famous examples include the UK's Better Society Capital, Ghana's Ci-Gaba and Inovacao Social in Portugal, but what do social or impact investment wholesalers actually do and how do they work?

A year after the C$755m Social Finance Fund’s launch, optimism about its transformative potential is tempered by concerns about the exclusion of underserved communities during discussions at the Social Finance Forum.

New research aims to bust myths about social enterprises in Canada, as sector leader condemns lack of government backing.

Two common refrains – hoping for the day when “every business is a social enterprise”, and claiming that social entrepreneurship “is a verb, not a noun” – sound positive. In fact, they hold us back from true progress, says the Trico Charitable Foundation boss.