The Dream Big South Yorkshire Fund brings together multiple partners in a first-of-its-kind joint effort. We speak to Key Fund and Save the Children to explore their ambitions for the fund and the wider market.
EcoPeace Middle East aims to deliver stability to the region through private investment in climate security projects, but the organisation's directors believe impact investors are too risk-averse to support its work.
Five years after India and China forced COP26 to soften to “phase down” on coal, climate change activists at the AVPN conference say the fight has quietly moved to adaptation money – but the storms battering Asia's coastlines aren't waiting.
In Delhi for the first time, Asia's largest philanthropy and impact investment network, AVPN, says that despite the region's 1,000+ billionaires, its biggest challenge is the lack of Asian money.
After the Scottish government announces a new social economy strategy, and a potential £10m social impact partnerships fund, Social Enterprise Scotland chief calls for targeted funding for different business models.
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The Dream Big South Yorkshire Fund brings together multiple partners in a first-of-its-kind joint effort. We speak to Key Fund and Save the Children to explore their ambitions for the fund and the wider market.
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INTERVIEW: The OECD's Priscilla Boiardi on why philanthropy isn't replacing vanishing aid money, and why the countries with the least data may be giving the most. Interview from the AVPN global conference.
EcoPeace Middle East aims to deliver stability to the region through private investment in climate security projects, but the organisation's directors believe impact investors are too risk-averse to support its work.
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Five years after India and China forced COP26 to soften to “phase down” on coal, climate change activists at the AVPN conference say the fight has quietly moved to adaptation money – but the storms battering Asia's coastlines aren't waiting.
