Four social impact projects reach into Nesta’s £25 million fund
Nesta, the UK’s charity for bringing innovative ideas to life, has announced four projects for its £25 million social impact fund, Nesta Impact Investments (NII). The four projects represent the first...
View ArticleEuropean companies get serious about social intrapreneurship
You may already be familiar with social intrapreneurship and have seen some examples of it in action. Now, a new project by CSR Europe, a membership-funded organization of European companies sharing...
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You could soon be swimming in a Paris subway station
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, one of six candidates running for mayor of Paris, hopes to transform the city’s deserted subway stations into social, sporting, and cultural spaces. Kosciusko-Morizet is the...
View ArticleGoodGym is applauded by Prime Minister Cameron, receives a Big Society Award
A social enterprise keeping people fit while getting them to support the community has been recognized today by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. GoodGym, whose members run to help elderly people with...
View ArticleSocial Investment Tax Relief gives UK investors a 30% break
Investors in the UK finally learn more details about the Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) since the government briefly addressed it last fall. Today, on Budget Day and as promised in a roadmap...
View ArticleWill the Social Investment Tax Relief inspire an L3C turnaround?
This is the situation we have at hand: in the US, you can no longer register a low-profit limited liability company (L3C), known as the legal structure for “hybrid” businesses or social enterprise, in...
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European Commission received a record 1,200 entries for the social innovation...
Last fall, the European Commission launched a second social innovation competition, asking Europeans to once again come up with ideas to tackle unemployment in the region. It announced today that over...
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Sentimoto puts wearable tech to good use
Sentimoto, a London-based startup and participant of the Bethnal Green Ventures accelerator, is creating “wearable sensors” for seniors. The idea is a watch-like device that can monitor a person’s...
View Article5 facts about social enterprise in Belgium
The head of social enterprises in Belgium tend to be male, above 40, and highly educated, at least according to Oksigen Lab, an incubator and research lab for social entrepreneurship based in Brussels....
View ArticleWhy Deloitte UK is choosing to work with social enterprises
Deloitte revealed today that it will be working with 12 new social enterprises in the third year of its Social Innovation Pioneers program. As with previous years, this group will get an estimated £1...
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