Business

Business Innovations & Initiatives

Turbo-charging D2C sales for an impact sanitation product

At Archipel&Co, we’ve been working on last mile sales and distribution and sanitation products and services for decades. We were thrilled at the opportunity to combine the two in supporting SATO by LIXIL to identify, prioritise and execute a channel strategy for market-based distribution and sales in Ghana. Explore the case study here. 
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Ben Jeffreys, ATEC, clean and safe cooking

Ben Jeffreys is a social impact pioneer – he is dedicating his life to bring clean cooking to everyone around the world. Ben believes that this is one of, if not the world’s biggest social and environmental challenge … and he has the statistics to back it up.
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Eric Meade, Reframing Poverty

Meet Eric Meade, social impact pioneer and deep thinker about what poverty really means. During this conversation be prepared to rethink what poverty means to you and to others. Discover ways to better understand poverty, how others might be experiencing poverty. Apply this understanding to make better decisions and deliver deeper poverty-alleviating impacts.
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Six ways social entrepreneurs can step up to help refugees

Half of refugees in the UK struggle to get employed. What can those of us working in the social impact space do to help them find meaningful work? In the recent WISE Ways to Lead webinar, hosted by Pioneers Post in partnership with NatWest, we heard from social enterprises working with refugees to answer just that. Read on for highlights, and watch the full discussion video.
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Business Fights Poverty Magazine

Across the world, a confluence of challenges— notably, COVID, conflict, and climate change—is driving a poverty tsunami that is already crashing into people’s lives. Inside this latest magazine, you will find articles about businesses are building breakwaters to protect the growing number of vulnerable people against the oncoming wave. Our magazines help you navigate the challenges of scaling your social impact and share some of the leading edge thinking on topics across the space.​ Download the latest issue and past issues by clicking on the buttons below.
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Supporting refugees through financial inclusion

On Monday, World Refugee Day marked the start of Refugee Week (20-26th June) – a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Read on to learn more about a partnership between Comic Relief and Jersey Overseas Aid which has helped support some of the two billion people who lack access to formal financial services.
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NaTakallam – where language learning meets social impact for refugees

Today, there are over 100 million forcibly displaced people in the world. NaTakallam, a social enterprise, is disrupting the way we typically think of humanitarianism, language learning and international development. By being the bridge to the private sector, NaTakallam provides vital work opportunities for refugees and conflict-affected individuals, including in Ukraine.
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Training Migrant Workers with Sandra Granath and Aleksandra Lasota

Aleksandra and Sandra share their leading thinking on how to best support migrant workers; what business need to do to adhere to the new EU directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence; and why training doesn’t need to stop when workers have differing languages or low literacy.
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Combating rural poverty through Inclusive Business

Every day, inclusive business companies overcome a myriad of challenges to improve the lives of the poor. Without sacrificing their financial sustainability, they empower people at the base of the economic pyramid to improve their livelihoods or access beneficial products and services.
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Tackling inequality – an integral component to long-term business success

As more and more boardrooms have sustainability at the top of their to do lists, Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), warns that if tackling inequality is not a key part of your plans, your sustainability efforts will fail, and your business will suffer.
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A Sustainable Business Guide with David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee

David Grayson, Mark Lee and Chris Coulter talk about their ‘Sustainable Business Handbook’ – the guide to practical action and developing sustainability strategy.
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How to social impact partner with Clive Allison and Nivedha RM

How to find your perfect social impact partner, and why partnering with social entrepreneurs is vital explain Clive Allison, Unilever and social entrepreneur Nivedha RM
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Mobile money with Ashley Onyango

Ashley explores the positive impacts of mobile money and examines the challenges that remain.
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Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez

Sustainability Strategy & Innovation with Mario Elias Gonzalez. Leading thinking to drive responsible and inclusive business deep into the core of companies.
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Why decolonizing philanthropy is important now more than ever and how to achieve it

The InteRoots Initiative believes that what is made for the community should be by the community. Communities should decide how to best represent and govern endeavors through community-based systems. InteRoots works as a partner to communities to offer support, financial empowerment and resources.
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Prioritising engaging with workers and other stakeholders for human rights

Ensuring corporate respect for human rights is fundamentally about people. To ensure that their actions to prevent and address human rights harm are effective, it is essential that companies engage with affected people and communities. Unfortunately, most companies are failing to undertake such stakeholder engagement.
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Engendering Regeneration for Supply Chains that Last

ICRW explain how food systems unleash women’s full potential to advance sustainable businesses and foster deeper resilience in the communities that nourish the world.
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Chocolate supply chains with Shawn Askinosie

How to build resilience chocolate supply chains? Social enterprise founder, ethical chocolate CEO: Shawn Askinosie shares his insights.
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The path to living wages for low-paid workers worldwide

Sector-wide action across supply chains is key to making living wages a reality for workers in low-income countries, says the Fairtrade Foundation’s Naomi Somerville-Large.
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Inclusive business models can help close the gender gap

Four lessons from GROW on how to sustain and scale inclusive business models to address the economic and the non-economic constraints women face.
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