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We're an online magazine for innovators, entrepreneurs, investors & advisors building a better world through good business – and a social enterprise ourselves.
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From September 2025, we’re focusing our efforts on building our community and facilitating conversations on LinkedIn, so our posts on X will be less frequent. Find us on Linkedin here: https://t.co/vSgqfd5svD
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Pioneers Post | 10,946 followers on LinkedIn. The Social Enterprise Magazine | Pioneers Post is the social enterprise magazine, delivering the news and setting the agenda for the new wave of social...
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❗ The transition to #impacteconomies is real – but the #EU must hold its ground. GSG Impact Chair @NickHurdUK warns in @PioneersPost that despite #politicalpushback, the shift toward #economies valuing people & planet is already✅underway
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OPINION: There’s a message blowing across the Atlantic that the business of investment is to maximise return, and considering people and planet is woke nonsense. This argument is outdated, says GSG...
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NEW: Innovators are creating new markets to make nature investable and mobilise much-needed private investment for the planet. Can forward-thinking finance overcome fears – of financial risk, greenwashing & more – in time to prevent ecosystem collapse? https://t.co/exHpkO6BIb
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This week in the PP newsletter: 📉 Global VC investments in impact startups fall to lowest level since 2017 🇹🇼 Taiwan’s innovation energy fires up Social Enterprise World Forum 2025 🌄 Beyond VC: How can Europe get fit for an impactful future? And more: https://t.co/ImMtRDQxkv
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What happened in the #impact world this week? 🩺 UK healthcare social enterprises outperform NHS averages 📚 Four social outcomes funds launch in Africa to improve access to education 🚢 How ships could soon be powered by algae ... and more:
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This week: UK pensions bill amendment aims to clarify fiduciary duty to unlock funding, four social outcomes funds launch in Africa, how ships could soon be powered by algae – and more.
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Opinion: Climate adaptation solutions remain under-invested despite the massive opportunities they offer. Impact investors must lead the way by combining both their capital and their influencing power to reframe climate adaptation as the smart thing to do: https://t.co/vqXhNwqjFD
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Climate adaptation solutions remain under-invested despite the massive opportunities they offer. Impact investors must lead the way by combining both their capital and their influencing power to...
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Impact assets under management keep growing but yearly investment volume drops, as impact investors report economic headwinds, reveals the GIIN's latest investor survey: https://t.co/DXh8dtpbWs
@theGIIN #impact
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Impact assets under management keep growing but yearly investment volume drops as impact investors report economic headwinds – while they move towards 'safe' investments in mature companies and...
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What happened in the #impact world this week? Our pick of the latest: 🤖 Musk’s xAI secretly drops benefit corporation status 🇯🇵 Japan’s first Orange Bond unlocks US$100m for women and girls 🍦 Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits ice cream company And more: https://t.co/dPEMkso2yV
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This week: Musk’s xAI secretly drops benefit corporation status, Japan’s first Orange Bond unlocks US$100m for women and girls, coalition calls for impact recognition in EU regulation, and more.
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NEW: Finding catalytic capital: AVPN conference focuses on Asia’s big challenge Read the full article: https://t.co/5WPsPy1wSx
@avpn_asia #AVPN2025
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In the wake of foreign aid cuts, and in its drive to become a world leader in impact investing, Asia needs to find its own sources of catalytic capital to attract more private investment to impact....
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NEW: Hong Kong can be a ‘super connector’ for impact investing – financial secretary at AVPN conference Read the full story: https://t.co/mwnnu3Xi1P
#AVPN2025 #AVPNGlobalConference2025 @avpn_asia
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Paul Chan says Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to channel capital for good, while Naina Subberwal Batra opens the AVPN annual conference with a call for Asia’s impact community to take the lead in...
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What happened in the #impact world this week? 😮 Net Zero Banking Alliance stops operations after mass exodus ✅ UnLtd shifts its endowment investment strategy 🎞️ Impact film 'Underseen' is available to the public And more... Read now:
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This week: Net Zero Banking Alliance stops operations after mass exodus, UnLtd shifts its endowment investment strategy, impact film Underseen available to the public, and more…
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NEW: Social Enterprise Scotland's latest census shows sharp drop in optimism among the country's 6,000 social enterprises since 2021 – in the face of inflation, rising wages and supply chain issues. Full story: https://t.co/Pi2dR4dyOl
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Gentrification or regeneration? The Edinburgh social enterprise helping one of Scotland's poorest areas navigate a £1.3bn regeneration programme. 🎙️ Listen to the Good Stories podcast episode 6 to find out more: https://t.co/VJsXdeC4Hp
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Dr Chih Hoong Sin welcomes the UK government’s launch of the world’s biggest outcomes fund. But, he warns, we should focus on how it can best optimise impact, learning lessons from other projects around the world. Read more: https://t.co/QJpQN0FjT2
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🎙️ ‘A decent CEO sticks around when things are hard’ – June O’Sullivan, CEO of the London Early Years Foundation Listen to the latest episode of the Good Leaders podcast here: https://t.co/1qoqZHG9yi
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In our latest SE100 Social Business Coffee Break webinar, Zoë Whyatt, CEO of Homes for Good, and Victoria Papworth, CEO of NatWest Social & Community Capital, shared their experiences of taking over leadership of established organisations. Find out more: https://t.co/8pDN0Yio5C
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Don't miss your chance! Ignite 2025, a competition run by the Ford Family Foundation, is now accepting applications to find the best and brightest young social entrepreneurs emerging from UK universities. Find out more:
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Ignite 2025, a competition run by the Ford Family Foundation, is now accepting applications to find the best and brightest young social entrepreneurs emerging from UK universities.
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NEW: Against a shifting geopolitical context, there are not only challenges, but opportunities for the impact community in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ahead of Latimpacto’s fourth annual conference, we explore delegates' top talking points: https://t.co/Na3fBO7Fro
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Against a shifting geopolitical context, there are not only challenges, but opportunities for the impact community in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ahead of Latimpacto’s fourth annual conference,...
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New: Our deep dive into hundreds of #SE100 applications reveals the number of social enterprises with DEI strategies has been steadily growing over the past five years, despite fresh challenges hitting their turnover and impact growth. Find out more:
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The number of social enterprises with equity, diversity and inclusion strategies has been steadily growing over the past five years, despite fresh challenges hitting their turnover and impact growth,...
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