Zamo Capital – the new company backed by Big Society Capital to scale up social investors – confirms its first deal, which will help Social and Sustainable Capital expand its team and raise more capital for its housing fund.
Numerous digital platforms have emerged as a go-to response to the Covid-19 crisis – building on conventional platform characteristics, but using alternative, more inclusive organisational models. Will they stick?
Some 72% of those responding to a survey by the Global Impact Investing Network said they were unlikely to decrease or were likely to increase the capital they had planned to commit this year. PLUS size of global market now estimated at $715bn.
Covid-19 restrictions could be the chance you never knew you needed to overhaul all those niggling issues in the ‘restaurant’ of your life. Katherine Burnard presents the Kitchen Nightmare episode that asks tough questions about your values.
Leading scientists at Imperial College London developing a Covid-19 vaccine have chosen a social enterprise structure for “maximum flexibility” and to remain affordable to the world’s poorest.
“Unprecedented times call for extraordinary solutions,” says US grantmaking giant, announcing $1bn social bond sale to fund a massive, anti Covid-19 grantmaking programme.
A Rio de Janeiro engineer – whose speedily-designed portable sinks allow workers and homeless people to wash their hands – on raising eyebrows as an all-female construction team and the 'rollercoaster of emotions' under Covid-19.
Covid-19 isn’t just affecting social businesses and charities – it’s also a concern for their investors, who may face reduced income and an uncertain pipeline. How can they best respond?
