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.
This week: ‘motherhood penalty’ beats back potential women social entrepreneurs, Asian impact investments on the rise, Spain’s social impact wholesaler gets up and running, and more.
This week: UN launches International Year of Co-operatives, gender-lens impact investing funds treble in past nine years, £150m of lending capital announced for UK underserved small business, and more.
This week COP29 paves way for “game-changing tool” to tackle the climate crisis, the UK government confirms no change for dormant assets allocation and the winners of the 2024 Social Enterprise NI Awards.
