The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment appoints former UK minister to role, although social investment pioneer Ronald Cohen has emphasised he isn’t ‘hanging up his boots’ just yet.
New study by Global Steering Group for Impact Investment calls for a change in viewpoint from seeing slums and their inhabitants as a problem and instead acknowledging the potential to transform urban liabilities into assets.
Impact investing and COP26: GSG’s Cliff Prior warns of “substantial disruption”, while Impact Investing Institute’s Sarah Gordon says “siloing” social and environmental is still a big issue. Plus, an update from the G7 Impact Taskforce.
In an open letter to the participants of the GSG Impact Summit, Mehrdad Baghai, Sean Hinton, Jacqueline Novogratz, Alejandro Preusche and Shane Tedjarati confront a "powerful hidden disruption of our core beliefs, principles and values".
First he set about revolutionising investment in entrepreneurs. Then he brought us the impact investing task force and social investment bank. Now, Sir Ronald Cohen introduces perhaps his most important campaign yet.
Pioneers Post met two of the biggest global names in social impact to talk about purposeful economies, and why millennials might be a big sign of hope for the social impact movement.