2015 Sankalp Global Forum: India's minister for science, technology and earth sciences has pedged "maximum support" to India's growing community of social entrepreneurs that are tackling inequality with innovative business models.
India's leading positive news platform The Better India, which acts as a catalyst for positive social change, has been named the Grand Prize winner at the 2015 Sankalp Awards in Delhi, India.
The 2015 Sankalp Global Forum is well underway in Delhi – putting policy makers, social entrepreneurs and impact investors in the spotlight and exploring innovative solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges.
From an insight into social investment activity in South Asia and the launch of a new UK charity retail bond, to UKIP's mysterious charitable donation and Russell Brand's social enterprise, here's our weekly innovation digest.
Dialogue about impact investment between developed and developing countries, and the need to invest in women are two key issues for debate at the Sankalp Forum in Delhi next week. We put five questions to Forum director Aparajita Agrawal.
Payment by results sounds straightforward, right? But if you get involved in one of these contracts you need to ditch traditional costing and pricing models for a new way of looking at things, warns consultant Nicolas Ponset.
Powering social change through years of commercial knowledge and excellent business acumen – two of the judges of the RBS SE100 2014 Growth Award explain why Goodwill Solutions CIC emerged victorious.
They may be small, but they're mighty: the first long-term analysis of the UK's social enterprise sector reveals explosion in tiny social enterprises – plus phenomenal growth figures.