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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?

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October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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New feature from us at @pioneerspost.bsky.social - this time on how #openmapping - plus drones, AI and community engagement - can help people better prepare for and respond to climate disasters.

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Mapping a fairer future: The open-source movement that's mobilising for climate resilience
Huge swathes of the planet barely appear on commercial maps, leaving open-source maps – built and updated by volunteers around the world – to fill in the gaps. Now, the nonprofit Humanitarian OpenStre...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Too many climate-affected communities are missing from commercial maps.

In @pioneerspost.bsky.social’s latest Earth Fixers, HOT shows how open, community-led data fuels local climate resilience.

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October 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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: www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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⭐ Spotlight series from @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social

Discover how Granton Project CIC used social investment from Firstport to help fund the redevelopment of a site in one of Edinburgh's most underserved communities.

🎬 Full case study video here >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlTX...
Spotlight Case Study: Granton Project CIC - The Pitt
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October 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If Keir Starmer wants to ‘deliver, deliver, deliver’, UK social investors can make Westminster’s money go further, argues Big Issue Invest’s new boss

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If Keir Starmer wants to ‘deliver, deliver, deliver’, UK social investors can make Westminster’s money go further, argues Big Issue Invest’s new boss
OPINION: As one of the UK's pioneer social investors, Big Issue Invest, celebrates its 20th birthday, new managing director Holger Westphely and original co-founder Nigel Kershaw say the concept is pr...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This week in the Pioneers Post newsletter ✉️

🇬🇧 UK social investors can make Westminster’s money go further, argues Big Issue Invest’s new boss

🏫 What are social outcomes partnerships?

🇲🇾 Connecting isolated enterprises to unlock development

And more...

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October 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Opportunities for social impact organisations from @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social 👇

🎤 Readdressing imbalance community event, watch on demand

📌 News of a new grant

🤓 How to register for their next e-Learning cohorts

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October 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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:

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Opinion: Why impact investors should share the good news about climate adaptation opportunities
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 refra...
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October 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Impact assets under management keep growing but yearly investment volume drops, as impact investors report economic headwinds, reveals the GIIN's latest investor survey:

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Global volume of capital invested in impact deals in 2024 falls by 30% compared with previous year – GIIN survey
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 develo...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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What is social impact, why does it matter, and how can you measure it? @goodfinanceuk.bsky.social breaks it down in this video, covering what impact means, why it’s vital, and how to get started.

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How do you measure social impact?
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October 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: Ahead of Impact Week in Malmö, Leslie Johnston talks about how the impact community needs to work with ‘unlikely allies’ if it is to tackle today’s tough challenges – and why impact investors need to listen to the voices of social innovators on the ground:

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‘We need all hands on deck’ – Impact Europe chair on how the impact community can shine a light in dark times
Ahead of Impact Week in Malmö, Leslie Johnston talks about how the impact community needs to work with ‘unlikely allies’ if it is to tackle today’s existential challenges – and why impact investors ne...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
From September 2025, we’re focusing our efforts on building our community and facilitating conversations on LinkedIn, so our posts on Bluesky will be less frequent.

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September 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What happened in the #impact world this week? Our pick of the latest news:

🤖 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…

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The Impact World this Week: 19 September 2025
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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September 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
NEW: Finding catalytic capital: AVPN conference focuses on Asia’s big challenge

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Finding catalytic capital: AVPN conference focuses on Asia’s big challenge
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. Wh...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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⭐ Spotlight series from
@goodfinanceuk.bsky.social

Discover how Granton Project CIC used social investment from Firstport to help fund the redevelopment of a site in one of Edinburgh's most underserved communities.

🎬 Full case study video here >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlTX...
Spotlight Case Study: Granton Project CIC - The Pitt
YouTube video by Good Finance
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September 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
NEW: Trailblazing family office co-founder – and former child actor – Liesel Pritzker Simmons on why more impact investors should wade into the “muddy” world of politics – and why there’s one topic no one wants to talk about.

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September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
North American & European investors are some of the biggest providers of impact capital to Asia, impeding the continent’s ambitions to become an impact investing leader.

Laura Joffre explores the solutions in this week's Editor's Post: www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...
September 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In this week's newsletter ✉️

🌏 Hong Kong can be ‘super connector’ for impact investing - AVPN conference

🇬🇧 ‘Affordable and procurement-ready’ impact accreditation launched

✍ ‘End complicity in Gaza genocide’, 1,000+ business leaders tell UK government

Read it now: createsend.com/t/j-216AFA72...
September 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
In the impact world this week:

🍻 Palestinian beer hits UK shops thanks to social enterprise partnership

🌏 AVPN 2026 host city announced

🍦 Ice cream pioneers call upon Unilever to ‘free Ben and Jerry’s’

And more...

Read it now: www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New accreditation, launched by the The Better Business Network, aims to reduce barriers for small businesses in the UK to prove their impact while aligning with government net zero and social value policies.

Find out more: www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...
September 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM