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ANALYSIS: What Trump 2.0 means for the global impact community The effects of Donald Trump’s return to head of the world’s biggest economy will be felt beyond US borders – and the president-elect’s values can appear at odds with the concept of doing business for good. Impact leaders from around the world share their worries, but point out too that there are reasons to be hopeful. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eeCfC2me The Global Impact Investing Network | Latimpacto | NESsT | B Lab | U.S. Impact Investing Alliance | Amit Bouri | Alberto Alemanno | The Good Lobby | Kirsten Dueck | María Carolina Suarez Visbal | Sarah Schwimmer | Toby Gazeley #impact #election #socent #impinv

NEW: You've heard of "nature-based solutions", but what actually *are* they? Who is paying for them, and why? How is their financing typically structured? Where are the big challenges and opportunities in this field? Our latest explainer goes deep into these questions and more, with expert insight and plenty of examples provided by our contributors from Finance Earth. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eiUfXKzi Will Parsons | Elizabeth Beall | Green Finance Institute | Aviva | Nattergal Ltd | Surrey Wildlife Trust | RSPB #naturebasedsolutions #naturefinance #biodiversity #biodiversitynetgain #climatecrisis #impactinvesting #blendedfinance

Our Events page will keep you up to date with all the most important #socialenterprise and #impactinvesting events coming up ?? https://lnkd.in/eHZ5BAsb Here's what's coming up soon: 25-30 November ICA Global Cooperative Conference 2024 International Cooperative Alliance 27-29 November Impact Week, including Pioneers Post editor Julie Pybus on a panel to discuss the role of journalism in the impact economy Impact Europe 27 November Scale Your Impact 27 November Social Protection in Africa: Experiences and Demands from the Informal Economy 28 November Impact Seminar Series Benelux Phenix Capital Group 4 December UK Social Enterprise Awards 2024 Social Enterprise UK 8 December IGNITE Amman: Investing in the future, featuring Pioneers Post associate editor?Anna Patton moderating a panel titled ‘Green Forward in Action: From Policy to Practice, Building a Green and Circular Economy in the Southern Neighbourhood’ Stichting SPARK

The Editor's Post: Trump 2.0: the fears and the facts for the impact economy | by Pioneers Post editor Julie Pybus Since Donald Trump’s victory in this month’s US presidential election was confirmed, the Pioneers Post team has been talking to our contacts in the impact community about how they feel, and how they believe ‘Trump 2.0’ will affect their work. It’s clear that there was an initial sense of despair (we’ve yet to find anyone who was celebrating – if you’re out there,?get in touch?and share your story), but – as we can always guarantee with our network – there are multiple viewpoints, and not all of them are bleak. Just hours after the election result, our associate editor Anna Patton was talking to delegates at the Partners for a New Economy conference in Brussels, Belgium, gathering?both pessimistic and optimistic takes?on the situation. Since then, our reporter Laura Joffre has canvassed views from across the world. Her?analysis, published this week, reveals not only concerns, but also insights into how Trump’s policies on everything from Ukraine to Latin America, from women’s rights to global trade deals, could affect impact investors and social entrepreneurs in the years to come. Most importantly, there’s a powerful call to unite against divisive and discriminatory rhetoric and push forward with the campaign for a fairer, greener world. One of the other outcomes of the US election result has been a massive exodus from the social network X, and an influx of millions of new users to one of the newer kids on the social network block, Bluesky. Media organisations and journalists are in a constant love-hate relationship with social networks. They can help amplify our stories and connect with our audiences but, at the same time, we’re always playing catch-up in an attempt to rise to the top of people’s feeds thanks to their constantly changing, mysterious algorithms. For us at Pioneers Post, X has become much less useful than it used to be. For now, we will maintain our presence on X, but we will be a lot less active than we were in the past. This week, we joined the hoards heading on to #Bluesky to see if it is indeed the sunny, positive online paradise that many believe – and, while we didn’t see many representatives of the impact investment and social enterprise communities there when we peeked around the door a few weeks ago, suddenly more and more are piling in. Interestingly, Bluesky is registered as a public benefit corporation with a mission to “develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralised public conversation”. Bluesky explains that “the public benefit corporation status allows us to pursue our mission above profit”, although, like OpenAI, it is registered in Delaware, USA, where the legislation appears to be particularly lenient and which some experts have pointed to as potentially problematic. You can read about this in our reporter?David Lyons’s analysis (link in comments).

This week in the Pioneers Post newsletter: ?? What Trump 2.0 means for the global impact community ? Opinion: Why we must unlock the potential of community-led energy ?? Interview: Kieron Boyle - ‘It’s a really hard job – but I’m in my happy place’ And more... Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gDibzaPq #socent #impactinvesting

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What happened in the #impact world this week? Find out in our top pick of the latest news: ?? Ben & Jerry's stirs things up ?? Triodos Bank commits to nature-based solutions ???? New figures from Australia on the scale of social enterprises from Social Traders Plus news from AVPN, Social Enterprise UK, Leafr, Catalyst 2030 and more. Don't miss out, read it now?? https://lnkd.in/eMVpjpiA

#SocialEnterpriseDay24 is an opportunity to recognise the strength of social enterprises operating under the most challenging circumstances. This year, we featured three social enterprises in the Middle East that manage to help people and planet while running a sustainable business – against the odds. Read their stories: https://lnkd.in/dPuY8Unc

To mark #SocialEnterpriseDay24, we look back at the remarkable story of how the Paris 2024 Olympics welcomed social enterprises into its supply chain. No less than 500 businesses from the social and solidarity economy delivered a total of 750 procurement contracts for the Games – learn how it happened: https://lnkd.in/eRdZf-K8 #socent #ESS

To celebrate #SocialEnterpriseDay24, today we're sharing the stories of the most inspiring social enterprises we've reported on this year. ?? To start with, follow our reporter David Lyons as he travels to a Scottish island to discover the work of award-winning social enterprise, Isle of Skye Ferry CIC, in the Good Stories #podcast: https://lnkd.in/e334-nnm #socent