Billions of dollars are now invested to create social impact as well as financial return. But with powerful new players such as Goldman Sachs and the Ford Foundation striding into this maturing market, will the sector’s original values be lost?
A new database, launched today at SOCAP17 in San Francisco, aims to help social entrepreneurs all over the world find the support and finance they need to grow their businesses.
Social investors and organisations seeking social investment often struggle to find each other. An award-winning match-making service has seen 200 successful deals across the Asia-Pacific so far this year.
More than 1 million Scottish people have benefited from social investment over the past year, according to an annual impact report by Social Investment Scotland.
Government ministers and leaders from across the Asia-Pacific will push forward social enterprise and impact investment following a meeting at the Social Enterprise World Forum 2017.
The latest figures released from the social investment wholesaler show a growing market, with the amount of deals done up on 2015. The average size of a deal has also risen.
Kilmarnock in New Zealand employs 80 people with intellectual disabilities, delivers commercial contracts for big businesses and is about to launch its own training academy. But just a few years ago the organisation was at breaking point.
