Tagged - impact finance

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.

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.

This week: Bill’s Gates to close in 20 years; Char Love joins House of Hackney to stand up for nature; OpenAI’s public benefit corporation restructure confirmed – and more.

As Trump’s USA takes its eye off social impact, Europe’s venture capitalists stand at a decisive moment in history, concluded discussions at the latest FASE Impact Fire Talk. But capital strategies must evolve to unleash VCs’ true transformative power.

In the wake of the UK’s latest development aid cuts, Gilad Tanay says that the way the money is spent must be fixed. The answer lies in adopting ‘impact forecasting’, he argues.

This week: WEF’s Klaus and Hilde Schwab face whistleblower allegations; Triodos breaks from Net Zero Banking Alliance; OpenAI aims to expand its philanthropic reach and impact – and more.

How can impact investing claim to drive systemic change when its leadership mirrors the same patriarchal and exclusionary structures it seeks to dismantle – and how can we start changing this?

This week: Ashoka’s Bill Drayton awarded ‘global treasure’ status by Skoll, how Ukraine’s social entrepreneurs defy the rockets, the least popular SDG for impact investors revealed, and more.