News and Views

  • Why are impact investors still ignoring their diversity blind spots?

    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?

  • Unlocking change: Pioneers Post kicks off journalism programme for 10 young trainees

    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.

  • Skoll Foundation commits $25m to compensate for Trump’s ‘inhumane’ spending cuts

    Founder Jeff Skoll launches emergency fund in response to US government ‘efficiencies’, while MacArthur Foundation president urges other funders to follow its lead in releasing more funds during Donald Trump’s presidency.

Bill Drayton Ashoka

Bill Drayton: Changemaking skills as vital as literacy

Making social innovation skills available to all would also help heal a fractured society, says Ashoka founder, as a new survey finds that 77% of social entrepreneurs are already collaborating widely – and many are 'activating' others to become changemakers.