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12 Jun 2017 Investing for good: moving into the mainstream?

Katie Fish, London October 2016 Associate, and Francesca Spoerry, London April 2017 Associate, write about the upcoming Impact Investing Summit on 15th June 2017 organized by The Economist.Our current placementsHow did we go from working in a law...

01 Jun 2017 Pirates, purpose, and programming: the business of education

Anna Patton, London October 2014 Fellow, writes about four education organisations that spoke at our recent ‘Where purpose is driving business: education’ event.Talking about the UK education system isn’t very uplifting. Family income and where...

25 May 2017 What Can The Manchester Attack Teach Us About Purpose?

Although it may say Associate Director Business Intelligence on his card, my husband’s real job/vocation/raison d’etre is being a counter terrorism expert. Always has been since we worked for UK Intelligence.Which always makes for a strange mood...

12 Apr 2017 What good is a corporate experience? Tools to take to social enterprises

Martin Cosarinsky Campos, October 2016 Associate, writes about his career shift and some tools he took into his first 6 month of the On Purpose Associate Programme.It was during another, countless, KPI improvement for GSK that I started to think...

14 Mar 2017 Of Boxcars and Broken Drill-Bits

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14 Mar 2017 The art (or science) of measuring impact

Measuring impact in the social sector has long been a misunderstood and often underutilised concept. However it can no longer be ignored with the increasing prominence of social enterprises and the added scrutiny they bring. Impact analysis is...

14 Mar 2017 People On Purpose: Stephanie Hogg on sustainable fashion

Six years ago Stephanie Hogg set up the social enterprise NearFar, a sustainable fashion label based in Sierra Leone. Earlier this year she co-founded Gather&See an online boutique that sells ethical brands from around the world.

14 Mar 2017 France: the country with one million social investors

14 Mar 2017 Tools to launch, test and refine your ideas

In our latest blog post, Eimear Fitzsimons (April 2014 Associate) shows us how to build and test an idea in 24 hours

14 Mar 2017 Inclusive Business or Business as Usual?

14 Mar 2017 The Barefoot Revolution

Terra Plana uses innovative approaches to create “sustainable” shoes. Creating sustainability in manufacturing is often thought of as minimizing the “footprint” of production (if you have an aversion to cheap puns you should probably stop...

14 Mar 2017 Marketers Have Got Bright Days Ahead in Social Enterprise…

I was pleasantly surprised at the excellent OxfordJam gathering last month to see the interest amongst social enterprises of all shapes and sizes in a familiar topic — branding and marketing. Having spent the last few years at…