Corporate Impact

Corporate Impact: Transforming Lives and Reducing Poverty

Aline Sara

Creating Work Opportunities for Refugees, with Aline Sara

Meet Social Impact Pioneer, Aline Sara, Co-Founder and CEO of NaTakallam, the award-winning social enterprise transforming how businesses and individuals engage with refugees and conflict-affected communities.
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Staying Ambitious with AI: 5 Lessons for Responsible Social Impact

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform social impact, but only if it is deployed responsibly. Drawing on Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article explores five practical lessons for using AI to strengthen lives, livelihoods and learning through inclusive design, trusted partnerships, strong governance and human-centred implementation.
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From Engagement to Action: 5 Ways to Activate Internal Stakeholders on Social Impact

Moving internal stakeholders from awareness to action is one of the biggest challenges facing social impact professionals. Drawing on insights from Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article outlines five practical strategies for building trust, creating relevance and activating sustained internal engagement to embed social impact across business strategy and operations.
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Moving Beyond Projects: How Corporate–NGO Partnerships Can Build Systems Collaboration

As global crises intensify and aid declines, corporate–NGO partnerships must evolve beyond project-based funding. Drawing on Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article outlines six practical lessons for building financially resilient, locally led and systems-focused partnerships that create lasting social impact while strengthening business resilience.
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Unlocking More Impact from Limited Capital: 5 Lessons on Catalytic and Recyclable Finance

As social impact budgets tighten, businesses are exploring catalytic and recyclable finance to achieve greater impact with limited capital. Drawing on Business Fights Poverty’s latest Insight Paper, this article shares five practical lessons to help companies use grants, blended finance and impact investing more strategically to build resilient, long-term social and environmental outcomes.
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Responsible Business

How the TISFD Framework Supports Businesses and Investors to Manage People-Related Risks and Opportunities

As inequalities remain high and persistent globally, the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) is inviting stakeholders to participate in the development of its draft framework, which aims to help businesses and investors to better understand the risks and opportunities arising from inequalities and other social issues.
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Your mission is clear, your messaging isn't

Your Mission is Clear. Your Messaging Isn’t

Many social impact organisations assume that a strong mission is enough to attract support. In reality, growth depends on understanding and responding to audience needs. This article explores how listening, audience insight and feedback loops help impact brands communicate more effectively, build trust and reach the people they were created to serve.
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Catalytic Finance

Staying Ambitious: Practical Steps for Businesses to Unlock Recyclable and Catalytic Social Impact Finance This paper explores how businesses can use catalytic and recyclable
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Internal Stakeholder Activation

Staying Ambitious: Moving internal business stakeholders from engagement to action – practical insights from social impact professionals This paper explores how social impact professionals
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Corporate NGO Partnerhips

Staying Ambitious: How Corporate-NGO Partnerships Can Move Towards Systems Collaboration This paper explores how corporate-NGO partnerships can evolve beyond traditional project-based approaches to deliver
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Ian Leader

Brokering Partnerships and Collaboration with Ian Leader

Listen in to Ian Leader, Social Impact Pioneer, cross-sector strategist and founder of Local Works. Ian shares his experience in building partnerships that really work, between business, community and government.
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Ulrich Assouah

AI Literacy and Local Humanitarian Leadership in Cameroon

In this interview, we hear from Ulrich Assouah, Managing Director of IFP Humanitarian Studies, based in Douala, Cameroon. With a background in humanitarian leadership development, organisational governance, and capacity building for local NGOs and young professionals across Africa and fragile contexts, Ulrich brings a practitioner’s lens to the question of AI’s role in locally led humanitarian action.
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innovative corporate social impact

When Budgets Tighten, Corporate Innovators Invest More in Social Impact. Here’s Why.

Across the corporate social impact community, budgets are tightening and many companies have gone quiet on commitments. New research from Project ROI, aggregating 640+ peer-reviewed studies, shows the opposite move: high-performing companies invest more in CSR during downturns. Here’s the data, and what it means for corporate leaders and their nonprofit partners.
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Hesham Elzeftawi - Cross Cultural Learning

What Can Business Gain from Cross Cultural Learning with Hesham Elzeftawi

Social Impact Pioneer Hesham Elzeftawi, shares his journey developing deep understanding and appreciation for cross-cultural learning.
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Dignity in healthcare

Dignity Is a Business Strategy

Dignity is more than compassion, it is a business strategy. Drawing on experiences in Haiti and healthcare, this article explores how designing for human dignity improves trust, engagement and outcomes. From patient care to workforce participation, organisations that prioritise the human experience can strengthen retention, reduce inequality and create more resilient, impactful systems.
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purpose drive leadership

Why Purpose-Driven Leadership Starts With You

Purpose-driven leadership starts with personal clarity. This article argues that leaders must define their own values before building organisations for social impact. Without this internal work, strategies lack direction and authenticity. By aligning personal purpose with organisational goals, leaders can create more resilient, trusted and effective businesses that deliver lasting impact.
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antifragility business strategy

From Resilience to Antifragility: What Nature Can Teach Us About Staying Ambitious in a Time of Constraint

Business Fights Poverty and Learn Biomimicry come together to explore how nature offers a powerful lens for going beyond resilience, helping organisations not just withstand adversity but grow stronger because of it.
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Michelle Grogg

Inside the Mars Impact Fund with Michelle Grogg

Social Impact Pioneer Michelle Grogg is the Executive Director of the Mars Impact Fund. Listen in as Michelle shares her insights on why Mars can do more with an Impact Fund now. She shares her experiences on how businesses can drive meaningful social impact at scale and how delivering impact through both business operations and targeted investment is a vital way to make limited resources go further.
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women farmers supply chains

Partnering for Impact: Five Lessons for Organisations Ready to Champion Women Farmers

Strong partnerships are essential to building resilient, climate-smart supply chains. Drawing on ofi and GIZ’s multi-year collaboration, this article shares five practical lessons for empowering women farmers at scale. From aligning around shared challenges to designing inclusive, long-term programmes, it shows how partnership can unlock livelihoods, strengthen value chains and drive measurable impact.
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Why Lean Startup Fails Impact Ventures – and What to Do About It

Why do so many impact ventures fail to scale sustainably? The Billions Burned webinar series explores how Lean Startup and patient capital models can undermine long-term success in “build to hold” ventures. It argues that structural cost-to-value barriers – not lack of effort or money – drive failure, and highlights the need for new innovation frameworks that prioritise profitability, resilience and real-world impact.
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What do we mean by "Corporate Impact"?

Corporate impacts can transform lives and reduce poverty significantly through targeted programs and partnerships that foster economic growth

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