The CEO of the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance speaks to Tim West about solving your own problems, how Africans turn “embarrassing” issues into entrepreneurial opportunities and how he came to realise his love and pride for Africa.
Good Stories podcast episode 6: With £1.3bn being pumped into one of Scotland's poorest areas, social enterprise The Granton Project is ensuring that local communities truly benefit. Our reporter David Lyons finds out more.
In our latest SE100 Social Business Coffee Break webinar, Homes for Good CEO Zoe Whyatt and NatWest Social and Community Capital bossVictoria Papworth share their experiences of taking on a top job and the lessons they’ve learned.
Youth centre closures have left too many of London’s young people without crucial networks of support. Sirlute founder JR Josephs aims to give those young people transferable skills they need to achieve their goals.
She hates small talk and has a taste for bold decisions: Ashoka’s Europe leader Marie Ringler talks about her journey from politician to social innovator, why the feeling of powerlessness is the biggest poison in the world, and more.
Join Pioneers Post reporter David Lyons at Kendal Mountain Festival, where some outdoor wear brands, including Patagonia, are pushing forward circular economy solutions to halt the industry’s damaging effects on the environment.
Cambridge Social Innovation Prizewinners Camilla Rigby and Rachel Mostyn, founders of Women’s Work Lab, say they want to build a team of women they’ve supported into work so strong they can hand the organisation over to its community.
What happens when it all goes wrong? In this episode, Dominic Llewellyn speaks about the personal impact of the sudden closure of Numbers for Good – in a story he hopes can “help others see how hard challenges can lead to new beginnings”.
For Cambridge Social Innovation Prizewinner Izzy Obeng, co-founder of Foundervine, the 2011 riots in her London community inspired a drive to change the system which perpetuated the economic status quo.
Offering flexible working can give social enterprises a competitive advantage in the race to recruit the best employees – even if they can’t offer the highest rates of pay and benefits. Our webinar examined how to make it work.
Join Pioneers Post reporter David Lyons in Oaxaca state, Mexico, as he learns about how NGO SiKanda is supporting informal waste pickers to professionalise, set up enterprises and improve their communities’ waste management.
Tim West and Liam Black invite purposeful business leaders to open up about their real-life issues in our new podcast series. First on the “couch”, Kerrie Jones, founding CEO of Orri, talks about the challenges of turning her vision into messy reality.
