It's not just the job of investors to assess the capabilities of social enterprises seeking investments, the enterprises themselves also hold substantial power – they just don’t all realise it yet.
"No sector has a monopoly on saints or scallywags." Rodney Schwartz, CEO of leading social investment organisation ClearlySo, contemplates both the harm done and progress made by ex-bankers in the social investment sphere.
This weekend the Emerge conference brings together students, entrepreneurs and activists in Oxford. One of this year's speakers explains why he is so frustrated with social finance in the UK.
An informed attitude to risk could prove highly advantageous to enterprising charities willing to consider the potential impact social finance could create, argues Eddie Finch from UK chartered accountants Buzzacott.
In order to achieve the critical mass needed to address the world's biggest social and environmental challenges a new system must be built, writes John Elkington ahead of the UK's leading impact investment and social enterprise conference.
An evaluation of the Cabinet Office's Investment and Contract Readiness Fund reveals the fund has helped UK social ventures win £233m in private investment and contracts.
As enthusiasm about social investment, profit with purpose businesses and hybrid business structures gathers at rapid pace, Pauline Hinchion warns that the third sector is losing out.
The hero model is dead, long live collective impact. Co-founder of the SOCAP conference and long time disrupter Kevin Doyle Jones talks to Ellie Ward about hero worshipping, market taming and impact investment trends and challenges.
