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How can impact investing claim to drive systemic change when its leadership mirrors the same patriarchal and exclusionary structures it seeks to dismantle – and how can we start changing this?
From tracking underwater creatures to optimising crop yields, many entrepreneurs now use AI to tackle environmental challenges. But, with much uncertainty – and concerns about AI’s negative impact – they’re entering unknown waters.
Ten young education advocates from around the world have begun a six-month programme in journalistic storytelling, delivered by Pioneers Post on behalf of global children’s charity Theirworld.
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.
International cosmetics company LUSH has opened its biggest shop to date on London’s Oxford Street. Pioneers Post talks to founder Mark Constantine and son Simon about ethical supply chains and driving social change through business.
Former CEO of the Big Society Network Paul Twivy has blamed the intiative's failure on a "series of broken promises" made by government in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
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".
Big Society Capital's Matt Robinson calls for the next UK government to conduct a social outcomes based spending review in 2015 to help make taxpayers' money go further and reduce health inequality throughout the country.
Unity Trust Bank is on track to hit its three-year lending target of £100m by the end of 2015, according to its new Social Impact report, and aims "to become the go to bank for the civil society" in the UK.
Social impact is about more than numbers and words on a page – it’s about asking big questions and finding answers, writes Dave Masom in his exploration of social impact measurement.
