Month: January 2018
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Announcing our first round Connect Fund grants! These successful grant awards focussed on shared initiatives to fill gaps in market architecture. The quality of applications was very high, with a range of approaches to data sharing, skill development, capacity building, networks and development of new standards. The Connect Fund received ...
What’s the big problem?
Charities and social enterprises require small amounts of affordable finance to allow them to create more social impact, particularly as they develop ways to earn income. Despite having been set up for this purpose, many social investment intermediaries struggle to provide this type of finance. Why is this? The social ...
Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah
Underpinning the Connect Fund is the ambition to accelerate change by creating a learning community that can work together to advance solutions to shared challenges. The first round of Connect Fund grants support collaboration between existing intermediaries and will strengthen the market to foster innovation, to develop a market that ...