This week: Ice-cream co Ben & Jerry’s relations with parent company Unilever get frostier; UK’s CIC Regulator gets streamlined and social enterprise anger as NICs tax exemption denied.
This week: IA50 identifies boom in ‘institutional scale’ impact investment fund managers, first-of-its kind social enterprise loan fund launches in Australia, and discover the incoming Canadian PM’s position on impact investing.
This week: Syria’s first hackathon unites social innovators to support recovery; UK government backs social enterprise in public procurement rules shake-up; Alfanar’s MENA impact fund launch is “good news for impact investing”.
This week: impact investors unite against US foreign aid freeze; sustainability gets lukewarm embrace at Paris AI summit; concerns raised about UK government’s social investment advisory group members; and more.
This week: the financial fragility of Black-led social enterprises and charities in London, a bonanza of multiyear grant funding for creative enterprises in Scotland and a bumper harvest of payouts for employee-owned veg box firm Riverford.
This week: Irish social enterprises test accreditation, AVPN and Latimpacto collaborate, a criticism of the UK government’s view of civil society, and more.
This week: Why over half the world’s workers will need retraining by 2030, social entrepreneurs on the UK New Year’s Honours list, US$100m fund for climate adaptation for women launches, and more.
