As protests grow around the world against the building of massive, environmentally destructive data centres to serve the ever growing demands of AI, one Australian social entrepreneur has developed a different type of AI data centre which meets his organisation’s social values.
Impact assets under management in Spain grew by more than 50% between 2023 and 2025, shows fresh research which was previewed at this week’s annual ‘Camino al Impacto’ event in Madrid.
OPINION: Hopes are up for the sector as prime minister Andy Burnham’s refreshed political priorities have made ministers more receptive to the message of the social enterprise community, writes Social Enterprise UK’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul.
Social Enterprise World Forum’s Social Investment Manifesto calls for a reframing of social investment, as social enterprises remain excluded from investment opportunities in a market still split between profit maximisation and philanthropy.
Speaking alongside Mary Robinson at the Skoll World Forum 2025, the world’s youngest Nobel prizewinner warns that women’s rights everywhere could be vulnerable to attack by oppressive regimes.
Black-led social enterprises and charities are in crisis, and Bayo Adelaja is tired of watching it happen. The answer, she says, isn’t more mentorship or roundtables, but those with power taking action now.
Community development financial institutions have a long history in the US, and the country was admired by others for the success of its CDFI sector. Will a Trump order weaken this legacy?
Campaigners shocked as one of the US president’s latest executive orders could slash work of community development financial institutions, which offer capital to underserved entrepreneurs and businesses.
This week: Ice-cream co Ben & Jerry’s relations with parent company Unilever get frostier; UK’s CIC Regulator gets streamlined and social enterprise anger as NICs tax exemption denied.
This year’s COP30 in Brazil brings the climate change debate to the heart of the Amazon. But unless the language – and attitude – barrier is bridged, the conversation risks excluding the people who can help rebuild a sustainable planet.
