In an alpine lodge on Whistler Mountain two men pondered "the snow leopard", an ambitious man from Ghana who made it to the Winter Olympics. Their idea was to set up a social enterprise that could inspire similar ambitions in others.
International homeless charity rebrands and switches to social enterprise model at launch event in London. Social entrepreneurship is on the agenda in the Philippines and singer Laura Mvula backs music charity.
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In Ixtapa, Mexico Ron and Marlys Boehm tell Pioneers Post's Tim West about discovering social business, the inspiration they have found and the challenges they have helped social entrepreneurs to face as founders of Boma Investments.
In the first in a series of Leadership Laid Bare interviews, Pioneers Post's founder and editor Tim West meets Martin Cook – would-be rock legend, corporate leader with a conscience and one of the pioneers behind the new EY Foundation.
Key steps to releasing $1 trillion into the social investment market were announced today as the G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investment, chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen, launched its concluding report.
One of the biggest challenges facing social entrepreneurs internationally is generating enough capital to scale up and increase their impact. Drew von Glahn talks about how the World Bank is seeking long-term solutions to this issue.
In a Pioneers Post exclusive the new Minister for Civil Society Brooks Newmark writes about his first two months in office, his passion for social enterprise and the UK's first Social Saturday.
The G8 social investment taskforce will report next week. At SOCAP, the world's biggest social invesment event, taskforce chair Sir Ronald Cohen says governments hold the key to helping social investment take off like venture capital.