News and Views

  • WISE100 Women in Social Enterprise Awards 2024 open for nominations

    Your chance to nominate the UK's leading women in social impact, with five awards to be announced at our WISE100 celebration, including a new Equality & Empowerment Champion. Nominate by midnight, Sunday 14 January 2024! 

  • Why don't DFIs provide the funding that early-stage entrepreneurs so desperately need?

    Development finance institutions say they invest where others will not. Yet they've set up investment standards that all but guarantee that their dollars flow to megafunds and big, profitable companies that don't really need their help. 

  • 2024 must be “pivotal year of change” for investment in emerging economies, says the Impact Taskforce

    Report from Nick Hurd-led group of leaders says development finance institutions need to find more effective ways to mobilise private capital for impact in emerging economies if world is to meet SDGs.

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The Editors' Post: Staying out of trouble

Resilient, inspiring social enterprises in Johannesburg and in The Hague; impact accelerator blind spots; and an Indian perspective on financing disaster resilience. This week's view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.