She hates small talk and has a taste for bold decisions: Ashoka’s Europe leader Marie Ringler talks about her journey from politician to social innovator, why the feeling of powerlessness is the biggest poison in the world, and more.
Cambridge Social Innovation Prizewinners Camilla Rigby and Rachel Mostyn, founders of Women’s Work Lab, say they want to build a team of women they’ve supported into work so strong they can hand the organisation over to its community.
Join Pioneers Post reporter David Lyons at Kendal Mountain Festival, where some outdoor wear brands, including Patagonia, are pushing forward circular economy solutions to halt the industry’s damaging effects on the environment.
Earlier this year the SROI Network – soon to be Social Value UK – brought together individuals from the social enterprise, charity and corporate sectors in Milan, Italy to discuss the importance of true, honest impact measurement.
What does responsible capitalism look like and how can the social investment market be scaled to create more impact? These were some of the big issues up for debate at Good Deals 2014 – the UK's leading social investment conference.
Catch up on the action at last week's RBS SE100 Awards which celebrated the most resilient, fastest growing and innovative social enterprises in the UK.
Tim West, Pioneers Post's founder and editor, talks to M’Hammed Abbad Andaloussi in Mexico about running an NGO like a business and encouraging entrepreneurship in young people.
Iqbal Wahhab OBE is a successful restaurateur with a commitment to creating social value through business. He called in the expertise of Sarah Forster to determine just how social his profitable Borough Market restaurant is.
Against a backdrop of towering sky scrapers and bright lights, thousands of people from across the globe working with, in and around social enterprise gathered in Seoul, South Korea today, for day one of the Social Enterprise World Forum.
Different opinions, experiences and expert insight created a hotbed of ideas around how to start a movement at the second Dirty Rotten Social hosted at the House of St. Barnabas.
This week hundreds of social innovators will congregate in Mexico for the next Opportunity Collaboration gathering. At last year's event Pioneers Post's founding editor Tim West caught up with Tunisian social pioneer Leila Ben-Gacem.
Andy Lower wants to see extreme poverty eradicated in his lifetime and believes the answer to this complex global issue lies in the forces of markets. Pioneers Post's founding editor Tim West catched up with him in Ixtapa, Mexico.
