CAN have recently conducted a survey trying to identify difficulties that social entrepreneurs have in running their organisations. No prizes for guessing what the number one concern was...
Having worked in senior roles for two very different companies in the last 15 years, we thought Andrew Croft, chief executive of CAN, would be able to offer a few pearls of wisdom about running a successful organisation. Turns out we were right.
Going about its business relatively quietly for the past decade, CAN’s recent announcement of a £50m social investment fund sounded a fanfare that things were changing. As chief exec Andrew Croft tells us, there’s a lot more positive noise to come.
CAN-ny investments in the London property market have provided equity for the proposed launch of a new fund intended to allow social ventures to purchase their own assets.
