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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:
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This week in the Pioneers Post newsletter:

🔎 England’s blended finance wholesaler's independent review

🏔️ Davos 2026: Beyond Greenland and tariffs – the impact-focused discussions

☕ The Colombian enterprise using great coffee to do good

And more: https://t.co/kvZRzYyeT5

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🚨 Applications for the #SE100 Impact Pioneer Awards 2026 are now open!

Every year, Pioneers Post and @SocComCap celebrate the UK’s top social enterprises. What category will you enter?

You have until 15 February to apply: https://t.co/OhgtNiO2e2

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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 https://t.co/SXsZ2ho1wA

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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?

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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: https://t.co/PWrOpoW9bX

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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:
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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
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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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NEW: Finding catalytic capital: AVPN conference focuses on Asia’s big challenge

Read the full article: https://t.co/5WPsPy1wSx
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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

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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: https://t.co/gAPc0WAD5u

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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