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  • What is place-based impact investing?

    IMPACT 101: Place-based impact investing doesn't just mean investing in a particular city, region or rural area – so what does it mean? And why are pension funds, local authorities and asset managers getting involved?

  • Impact-linked compensation: How to move from kids’ shoes to a grown-up model

    Success in the venture capital world has long been rewarded with a share of profits called ‘carried interest’. In the impact investing market, fund managers are trialling ‘impact carry’. After testing it out, what do fund managers and investors think?

  • ‘Yesable propositions’: how to negotiate for social change

    If you want someone to change their behaviour, consider how to frame a proposal that is in their interests as well as yours. It’s a life-changing approach that can be a fundamental principle for social entrepreneurs.

  • Start small, but start somewhere meaningful: How to be brilliant at reporting your impact

    Don’t be scared to report on things that aren’t perfect, make reporting central to your work and ask difficult questions. Expert advice for social enterprises and other impact-focused organisations from our webinar on impact reporting.

  • Social enterprise and impact investing events in 2024 and beyond

    Ready to network, learn and get inspired? Don't book your diary without the Pioneers Post roundup of social impact events coming soon – for social entrepreneurs, impact investors and all those working within the global impact economy.

  • Pioneers Post Business School: How to do good business, better

    The tools and insight you need to do good business, better. Get expert advice, practical insight and frontline examples on key business management topics from our network of social business practitioners and advisors. 

What has the Charity Commission ever done for us?

In his latest Nicholls & Dimes column, Jeremy Nicholls applies Monty Python’s analysis of the Roman Empire to current challenges of reporting performance on ESG and corporate impact – and concludes that charities already have the answer.

Jeremy Nicholls
Victim First programme by Catch 22

Six hard-earned lessons on social enterprise mergers

Social business Catch22 – itself the product of a merger between two organisations – has announced a string of tie-ups in recent years, including at least one that didn't quite go to plan. CEO Chris Wright shares what he’s learned from the experience. 

Anna Patton