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Explore our issue-based resource kits with downloadable, co-created learning resources. Everything you need to inform your organisation’s social impact strategy and stay ahead of emerging social impact trends.
How Can We Build Partnerships for Green and Inclusive Growth?
This Resource Kit includes practical tools for businesses to build Partnerships for Green and Inclusive Growth, unlock the benefits of integrating social and environmental goals, and enhance supply chain resilience through collaborative efforts for sustainability and improved nutrition.
Building future fit partnerships for green and inclusive growth
A Report on collaborations for sustainable development, featuring frameworks and case studies to address poverty, inequality, and climate change. Developed with the FCDO and Business Fights Poverty.
Green and Inclusive Partnership Examples
This provides a snapshot of partnership action relevant to green and inclusive growth. It describes over 50 different initiatives, spanning food and agriculture, fintech, fast-moving consumer goods, energy and infrastructure, and health.
Partnering for Green and Inclusive Growth with FCDO
Watch the Fireside Chat with the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to explore a new vision for how businesses can partner for green and inclusive growth.
Supply Chain and Farmer Resiliency
An Insights Paper Insights from the Mars-Tanager Mint Partnership in India, linking supply chain strength to farmer resilience through sustainable, farmer-centered interventions.
How Business Can Unlock the Benefits of Integrating Social and Environmental Goals
Watch this hybrid workshop with Mars Inc to learn from the latest research on the business case for integrating social and environmental strategies into business strategy.
Acting Together for More Nutritious Food
This article, by Christina Tewes-Gradl, Richard Gilbert, and Jane Nelson, explores key opportunities to enhance food fortification efforts, emphasizing collaboration and policy advocacy to tackle global micronutrient deficiencies.
The View on Partnership from Global South Business Leaders
These Spotlight Interviews provide insights from business leaders on how partnerships can drive social and environmental impact, focusing on trust, shared goals, and adaptability to achieve scalable solutions in areas like sustainability and social innovation.
How Can Businesses Tackle the Poverty Tsunami?
This Resource Kit, supported by Pearson, includes practical tools for businesses to support the lives, livelihoods and access to learning of the most vulnerable people and communities affected by the poverty tsunami.
A briefing paper exploring the current confluence of challenges and the role businesses can and should play: Facing the Poverty Tsunami Briefing paper
A report demonstrating a new perspective on how paying living wages benefits companies, workers and society: The Case for Living Wages report
Learn from a panel of experts in this live webinar: How can businesses tackle the new wave of poverty?
Learn from a panel of experts and members of the BFP community in this live workshop: How do we work together to tackle multidimensional poverty?
Insights from our live workshop: How do we work together to tackle multidimensional poverty?
How does paying living wages improve business performance and tackle poverty?
This Resource Kit on living wages offers a multifaceted exploration of the concept, benefits, and implementation strategies of living wages globally. It serves as an essential guide for businesses, policymakers, and individuals interested in understanding and advocating for living wages.
A report demonstrating a new perspective on how paying living wages benefits companies, workers and society: The Case for Living Wages report
Learn from a panel of experts in this live Fireside Chat: How do we build a living wage movement?
Insight from our Written Discussion: The business case for paying living wages, and how business can implement it across their value chains?
More Poverty Resources
Digital inclusion depends as much on people and partnerships as it does on technology. Drawing on experiences from Romania, this article explores why locally adapted programmes, trusted partnerships and continuous learning are essential for helping communities build digital confidence and ensuring social impact initiatives remain relevant, resilient and effective over time.
Meet Social Impact Pioneer Joe Scantlebury, President and CEO of Living Cities. From representing children in the juvenile justice and dependency care systems to helping shape civil rights and equity advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Joe shares his journey. If you’re looking for inspiration and a can-do boost, this podcast is for you.
Women-led micro and small enterprises are already delivering climate solutions, yet receive only a fraction of global climate finance. This article explores how redesigning climate finance, procurement and investment can unlock the potential of women-led businesses to strengthen resilience, reduce emissions and accelerate an inclusive, locally driven climate transition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
