From 12 women in one room to 7,000 in production units across Bangladesh, over the past decade Hathay Bunano has empowered Bangladeshi women from the country's most disadvantaged communities. Ellie Ward reports.
Big Lottery Fund, Big Society Capital and the Cabinet Office have teamed up to launch Access: The Foundation for Social Investment to provide £100m of support to assist social ventures struggling to access finance.
The multinational firm will support social ventures working to improve employability prospects for disadvantaged groups in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
There have been several high profile government outsourcing failures, so organisations that operate for social impact should be ministers' first point of call in the future, argues ClearlySo's Rod Schwartz in his latest column.
This week we bring you our pick of social innovation updates around the world, from California to Singapore, PLUS a special social innovation education digest featuring the universities of Vermont in the US and Nottingham in the UK.
With the launch of the UK Financial Inclusion Commission's final report, community finance has been at the forefront of debate this week. Sector leaders tell Pioneers Post that legislation must follow.
Led by a group of successful social entrepreneurs, including Michelle Morgan from Livity, the third Dirty Rotten Socials event at London’s House of St Barnabas discussed innovative business ideas with social impact at their core.
The Arts Impact Fund will offer loans from a pot of money backed by public, private and philanthropic investors for 'artistically excellent work' that also delivers social benefit.
"This book will lift your spirits and make you laugh," says one review of Liam Black's new book. We present the second extract from The Social Entrepreneur's A to Z which focuses on essential (sometimes forgotten) business basics.
