INNOVATION FOCUS: Even with growing momentum behind using procurement for good, securing public sector contracts is elusive for most social enterprises. Can a startup help?
Social enterprises often work in isolation - but working with others can have its advantages. Jean Jarvis describes the benefits of matching her social enterprise with a housing group for the past four years.
Have charities neglected the question of rent for too long? Andrew Weston analyses the Right to Buy scheme and the housing association "identity crisis" in the UK.
For the past three years the teams at Allia and Canaccord Genuity have been engineering a new social investment machine that is opening up big bucks for charities and making social investment more appealing to mainstream investors.
