For the past three years the teams at Allia and Canaccord Genuity have been engineering a new social investment machine that is opening up big bucks for charities and making social investment more appealing to mainstream investors.
The time is ripe for social investment to take off. If it doesn't now, will it ever? Abi Rotheroe analyses the economic outlook and urges social ventures and their potential investors to make the most of the current state of interest rates.
Pioneers Post has teamed up with the Social Investment Business to present a collection of stories that explore how social ventures across the UK are using investment readiness grants to increase their impact and realise their BIG potential.
If you want to "transform lives in a way that hasn’t been achieved before, you need the disruption that social investment creates," says Jeremy Swain from Thames Reach. He talks investment readiness and SIBs with Ellie Ward.
The way in which foundations are run must radically change argues CEO of The Social Investment Consultancy Jake Hayman, who has had it with the foundations that "turn social leaders into perpetual beggars".
The 2015 Sankalp Global Forum is well underway in Delhi – putting policy makers, social entrepreneurs and impact investors in the spotlight and exploring innovative solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges.
The Real Lettings Property Fund is tackling homelessness in a different way. It has provided secure tenancies in its own properties for 240 of London's homeless people to date, and has now closed to new investors.
Dialogue about impact investment between developed and developing countries, and the need to invest in women are two key issues for debate at the Sankalp Forum in Delhi next week. We put five questions to Forum director Aparajita Agrawal.
Specialist fund manager Bridges Ventures is backing the first social impact bond in the world specifically designed to help people with long-term health conditions including diabetes and heart disabilities.
