Latimpacto delegates urged to embrace risks to tackle urgent challenges in Latin America, following two days of getting stuck in with community initiatives at an event that aimed to be more “disruptive party” than traditional conference.
Pioneers Post’s Anna Patton joins more than 300 ‘impact minds’ at this week’s inaugural Latimpacto event in Colombia. It's worlds away from the online-only connections of the pandemic, she discovers.
In Latin America, women are pushing forward key agendas including gender-lens and nature-positive investing. We spoke to three of them to find out what the rest of us can learn from the region – and how women entrepreneurs could be better supported.
The UK is weary of social impact bonds. But, says Dr Chih Hoong Sin, exciting innovations in other parts of the world should inspire the country of their birth to take a fresh look at what they can achieve.
Mission-driven businesses in Latin America, Spain and Portugal need a “new institutional architecture”: laws, regulation and policies that help them to flourish without stifling growth, according to new research by the UN and partners.
New case study-based research on “investing for impact” in Latin America and the Caribbean aims to spark more innovative investments with a greater capacity for risk in the region.
How did enterprise support organisations working in the global South keep small and social businesses up and running in a tumultuous year? Lessons from Ghana, Latin America and beyond.
Impact investment in Latin America should accelerate with speed and forcefulness, says Mexico’s Rodrigo Villar. The region’s social entrepreneurs have enormous potential, but urgent social and environmental problems to solve.
Bringing more capital to impact is crucial now, and there are four steps the impact investing community can take to make it happen, says the founder and president of Spain's Social Nest Foundation.
