Leading social innovator says Covid-19 offers “huge opportunity” for social entrepreneurs and impact investors to rebuild without being too stuck to past ways of working.
STARS OF SEWF2020: Makesense co-founder Christian Vanizette on growing its weekly volunteer base from 50 to 1,000 under Covid – and why the Social Enterprise World Forum is a chance to ‘recharge each other’s batteries of hope’.
England’s social enterprises have just one week to apply for emergency grants of up to £300,000, as the second round of the Social Enterprise Support Fund opens today.
Social investors go ‘back to grants’ with National Lottery-funded Social Enterprise Support Fund, which offers grants of up to £300,000 – and a deadline closing in just one week’s time.
A Rio de Janeiro engineer – whose speedily-designed portable sinks allow workers and homeless people to wash their hands – on raising eyebrows as an all-female construction team and the 'rollercoaster of emotions' under Covid-19.
Lockdown has one upside: it's easier than ever to rub shoulders with social entrepreneurs and impact investors from around the world – without even leaving your desk. Here are 10 to add to your schedule.
How do you allocate just the right amount of resources to measuring the effectiveness of a global development programme? Reflections from the Inclusive Business Action Network.
What does ‘investment-ready’ actually mean? At the Impact!Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi last month, representatives from four different impact funds shared their tips.
