Tagged - impact finance

This week: Ben & Jerry’s stirs things up, Triodos commits to nature-based solutions, new analysis of Australian social enterprise, and more.

ANALYSIS: The effects of Donald Trump’s return to head of the world’s biggest economy will be felt beyond US borders – and his values can appear at odds with the concept of doing business for good. Impact leaders from around the world share their worries – and reasons to be hopeful. 

Early evidence from Sumerian Foundation suggests social enterprises led by ethnically diverse founders, especially women, have a better repayment track record. What must impact investors change to build on this opportunity?

This week we reveal Scotland’s Social Enterprise of the Year, dive deep with whales and blended finance, highlight a change at the top of Big Issue Invest, and more.

'Makerspaces' in Liverpool that bring creativity to communities and provide hubs for budding artisans and entrepreneurs to flourish have become the first beneficiary of a brand new social investment fund ringfenced for the Liverpool City Region.

This week featuring Patagonia, AVPN, Catalyst 2030, Netflix, and more.

Pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors are now major actors in the global impact investing landscape, reveals the GIIN’s 2024 market sizing research.

This week: featuring Sir Ronald Cohen, an overview of the world’s impact investment wholesalers and new European research from the Euclid Network.

Treasury-hosted meeting of impact investors results in announcement of £550m to tackle the UK’s housing crisis and hopes of cross-departmental commitment to boosting the impact economy.