“This is my worm’s eye view… I’m crawling and I see everything, and it’s very clear.” Muhammad Yunus, Nobel peace prize winner and champion of microfinance, told Pioneers Post’s Anna Patton why university education gave him a “bird’s eye view” – and why his real education began when he got much closer to the ground. Read the full interview now 👇 https://buff.ly/4d6WkVY Grameen Bank | Yunus Centre | Yunus Social Business | Protect Yunus | The Nobel Prize #financialinclusion #microfinance #microcredit #socialbusiness #socialenterprise #nobelprize #education #capitalism
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Pioneers Post is the social enterprise magazine, delivering the news and setting the agenda for the new wave of social entrepreneurs, responsible business leaders and impact investors across the globe. We provide the news, knowledge and insight to help you do good business, better – and we are committed to using storytelling to create positive social impact. We publish online content, from written features, videos and podcasts, to a weekly newsletter with a round-up of the most important updates in the impact economy. Pioneers Post is itself a social enterprise with a legal structure that safeguard our social aims, and relies on subscriptions and content partnerships for our sustainability.
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Julie Pybus
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Julia Childs
Finance Manager at Fable Bureau Ltd
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BRAND NEW PODCAST: Good Stories Episode 1 – Isle of Skye Ferry CIC Join Pioneers Post reporter David Lyons in the Scottish Highlands as he voyages on an award-winning social business ferry. Read the story and listen to the full podcast👇 https://buff.ly/3WCwRgA ISLE OF SKYE FERRY COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY | Social Enterprise UK | Social Enterprise Scotland | Sheila Condie #podcast #tourism #leadership #impactfinance
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[Partner Post with Good Finance UK ] Lightning Reach is a financial support portal that makes it easy for people to find and apply for a wide range of personalised support (including grants, benefits, help with bills and other resources) in one place. They used #SocialInvestment through the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and others via the Growth Impact Fund to grow their team and build capacity, resulting in more support to people in financially vulnerable situations. Learn more about what they do and why, along with their experience of using repayable finance to grow and scale via this Good Finance UK case study 👉 https://lnkd.in/dfrVMWka
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The Editor's Post: Paris Olympics offers sporting chance to social enterprises | by Julie Pybus In the run-up to summer 2012, when the Olympic Games were hosted in London, those of us involved in the UK’s impact movement were incredibly busy putting forward arguments about why the Olympics organisers should consider awarding at least some of their thousands of delivery contracts (eventually totalling £7bn) to social enterprises. Social enterprises, we argued, could help deliver a more equitable, accessible, socially responsible and green Games, at the same time as providing top-notch products and services. Among others, ECT Charity, a community transport provider, led a consortium of operators across the country to deliver accessible shuttle services for disabled spectators. More than 100,000 journeys were made on 150 vehicles. GLL won the bids to operate two Olympics venues, the Aquatic Centre and the Multi-Use Arena, after the Games finished, as well as supporting the Olympics preparations in many different ways. As Laura Joffre reports this week, the organisers of this year’s Paris Olympics have gone a step further by actively encouraging and supporting organisations from the social and solidarity economy to bid for contracts. While criticisms have been aimed at the Olympics’ big corporate partners, such as Visa, for restricting how spectators can pay for their snacks, and Coca-cola for pouring drinks from single-use plastic bottles into visitors’ reusable cups, the social enterprise Olympics suppliers offer some more positive stories, including the fact that the athletes’ laundry is being washed by a social business which employs people with disabilities, and the stadium seats are made out of recycled plastic waste. Read in full on the Pioneers Post website: https://lnkd.in/eBrQtAT4 #socent #impact #socialimpact #Paris2024 #circulareconomy
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NEW: Good jobs: UK social enterprises offer better pay, opportunities and diversity than other employers The country’s social enterprises are providing jobs that contribute to creating a stronger, fairer economy, argues the latest Social Enterprise UK research. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e6Y9aECP Social Enterprise UK | Emily Darko | Dean Hochlaf #socent #impact #socialimpact #goodemployer
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This week in the Pioneers Post newsletter 📩 : 🏅 Paris 2024: How the Olympics welcomed social enterprises into its supply chain 🤔 Impact 101: What is an impact investment wholesaler? 💪 Good jobs: UK social enterprises offer better pay, opportunities and diversity than other employers And much more. Don't miss out, read it now: https://lnkd.in/exsdKk39 Subscribe here for weekly updates: https://lnkd.in/gDu24DK Social Enterprise UK | Dean Hochlaf | Emily Darko | Gila Norich | GSG Impact | Yunus Social Business | Les Canaux #socialenterprise #ESS #impact #impactinvesting #socent #Paris2024
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What happened in the impact world this week? Find out in our top pick of the latest news: 🌐 Are the UK’s new government ministers right for social enterprise? | Emily Darko | Social Enterprise UK 🌐 FT recognises growing importance of impact investment movement | The Global Impact Investing Network | Sapna Shah | Amit Bouri 🌐 Social Enterprise Awards Scotland shortlist announced | Social Enterprise Scotland 🌐 And more... Don't miss out, read now 👇 https://lnkd.in/erzDtYPM #impact #socent #impinv #socialimpact #socialenterprise #impactinvesting
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NEW: Paris 2024: How the Olympics welcomed social enterprises into its supply chain Paris 2024’s active strategy to support social enterprises to access contracts is hailed a success by organisers. And many hope a role in the global sporting spectacle could be a game-changer for the sector. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eRdZf-K8 Featuring Les Canaux | Yunus Centre | Muhammad Yunus | Vesto | Hawa au féminin | Moulinot Compost & Biogaz | Le Pavé® | ESS 2024 #socent #impact #socialenterprise #ESS #ESS2024 Pictures: Roxane Montaron – Solène Mollière / Les Canaux
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NEW: Opinion: Why investors want to see an ‘I’ in ESG ESG is due for a rebrand, says the Big Issue's Klara K.. Instead of the “tired controversy” over its relevance, the debate has now moved on to how to measure the impact of investment decisions on people’s real lives. https://buff.ly/4bZUh5i #ESG #impactinvestment #impactmeasurement
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How the green transition can be a success for all | Our latest Editor's Post by Laura Joffre We hear a lot about the just transition – a transition to a low-carbon, environmentally conscious economy that leaves no one behind. But many examples show that looking after the planet can do much better than that: it can help people move forwards. Our top feature this week brings you an example of how it’s done – and at scale. Social enterprise the Sea Ranger Service, which operates in the Netherlands and the UK, has identified two issues: the lack of services to look after marine ecosystems, and high youth unemployment in coastal communities. And it found that solving one problem could solve the other. By providing training to young people in jobs related to the protection of the ocean – from nature surveying to re-planting native species of seagrass – it equips them with the skills to work in the marine industry. Once fully trained, they are kept in paid positions for a period of time, enabling the business to deliver government contracts for marine conservation work, which public authorities are unable to fulfil on their own. Successful investment and an international franchise system will enable the model to be developed at scale: the Sea Ranger Service, which has employed 172 young people since its inception in 2018, aims to increase this number to 20,000 and restore one million hectares of ocean biodiversity by 2040. This story is a demonstration that solutions to social and environmental issues go hand in hand: the green transition must be a just transition, but if we're smart, there are solutions that can be a success for all. Three letters, so many problems Along the same lines, Klara K. criticises how the concept of “ESG” (“Environmental, Social and Governance”, used as shorthand for factors taken into account in sustainable business and finance), by its nature separates social and environmental impacts – which, as we see in the Sea Rangers example, doesn’t make sense. In an opinion piece this week, the managing director of Big Issue Impact Advisory argues that the “S” tends to be neglected, often because of the lack of clear metrics to address the complexity of social impact. She suggests starting to identify the issue before coming up with solutions, which can seem an obvious thing to do but is not always the case. Because if communities don’t feel the positive impact that business can have on their own problems, the “E” and “G” will be very difficult to sell. “If we fail to demonstrate the relationship between people and the planet to achieve sustainable growth, then we risk polarising the debate as a series of trade-offs rather than an inclusive opportunity for all,” Koslov writes. What do you think? Big Issue Invest | Hogan Lovells - HL BaSE | Wietse Van Der Werf #impact #justtransition #socent
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