Appetite for social investment is growing – last year the market was valued at £1.9 billion.[1] Yet access to affordable finance remains an issue for social ventures looking for less than £250,000. Our solution launched last week – the UnLtd Impact Fund....
Manyang Reath Kher’s earliest memories are of war, dead bodies, and of his own uncle trying to save his life. At age three Manyang became a refugee of the Sudanese civil war. He is one of The Lost Boys, a group of 20,000 boys who were displaced and orphaned....
Social procurement occurs in many formats and models, but most commonly it is achieved through adding a social value component to purchasing and procurement criteria and including a community benefit agreement within major development and infrastructure investments....
I’m a girl on a mission to have less plastic in my life and to make it easy for others to do the same. Why? Since it lasts forever, I worry about future generations choking on all the plastic that we are thoughtlessly discarding. I’ve already seen it happening the...
Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned as an organization development practitioner is how to get out of my own way. This means being aware of and managing behaviors that hold us back from fulfilling our intention. An important part of my work as an...
While so much attention given to developing the business, technology, and leadership skills needed to succeed as a social entrepreneur, team building is less often touched upon. The irony is that it’s the quality of the relationships with the people we work with that...
