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Tamil Nadu government unveil start-up and innovation fund
The Tamil Nadu government has unveiled a new start-up fund worth approximately £27,000,000 as part of the new Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation policy 2018-2023. The Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation policy, aims to provide an …
It’s not a game of choices
BuySocial currently markets itself as ‘aiming to build markets for social enterprises among the general public and private and public sectors’. But that’s not building a market, is it? It’s pushing against the existing markets, …
Entries are now open for the NatWest SE100 Index and Social Business Awards 2019
Entries are now open for the NatWest SE100 Index and Social Business Awards 2019. Pioneers Post have put together the NatWest SE100 to celebrate the growth, impact and resilience of UK social ventures, naming the …
The best investment is one that returns time
There is this belief in entrepreneurship, that you must work long hours to be successful. Successful people are often quoted that, especially in their early days, they worked over 84 hours per week with some …
Investing in Central and Eastern Europe could strengthen entire European economy
The Social Investment Leveraging Index, which was launched at the 14th EVPA conference in Warsaw, indicates that the average budget for venture philanthropy and social investment funds in 2017 was €10.7 million – nine per …
Corporate foundations consider risks and opportunities
DAFNE held its third European Corporate Foundations Knowledge Exchange, in association this year with Assifero, in Italy, hosted by Fondazione Sicilia. Over 70 delegates from 11 countries participated. This Knowledge Exchange will be remembered for its …
Impact investing: A foundation’s journey from a little to a lot
The Russell Family Foundation (TRFF) practices impact investing as a long game built on experiential learning, resilient risk-taking and the primacy of relationships. Contrary to the playbook of traditional investing, where the dominant values are …
BP Oman launches $5 million social investment programme
BP Oman has launched has a $5 millon dollar social investment programme in collaboration with Ministry of Oil and Gas and BP’s partner, Oman Oil Company for Explorations & Production (OOCEP). The programme will focus …
Venture philanthropy and social investment growing in Central Eastern Europe
The results of the EVPA ‘Investing for Impact Survey 2017/2018’, has shown an increase in the allocation of resources compared to the past in Central Eastern Europe, which reached seven per cent of the total …
Ten things that need to happen for social investment to thrive in Central and Eastern Europe
It has been 21 years since NESsT was launched in Budapest, Hungary. Our value proposition was that socially driven enterprises were a solution for the Centeal and Eastern European (CEE) region’s most critical social problems. …
