Funded by the EU and SAP, €0.5m initiative aims to facilitate partnerships between big businesses and social enterprises across the continent, with backing of 23 founding partners including SEWF and Yunus Social Business.
Access to funding for diverse entrepreneurs is not a "pipeline problem", we hear at this week's Impact Shakers Summit in Brussels. Plus: new backers for Suzanne Biegel's legacy fund and why a UN resolution on the social economy matters.
Social innovators were celebrated and corporates committed to work with social enterprises – but as the rich and powerful gathered in Davos, Oxfam shared a dark picture of rising inequality and called for a wealth tax.
Social enterprise support organisations need to look past their competitiveness and collaborate to help emerging social enterprises more effectively, Social Procurement Festival attendees hear.
