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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
Claire Sibthorpe from the GSMA explores how progress in closing the mobile internet gender gap has stalled, with women 14% less likely than men to use mobile internet. She highlights key barriers including handset affordability and digital skills, and the $1.3 trillion GDP opportunity. Urgent, targeted action from stakeholders is needed to prevent women being left behind digitally.
In the nonprofit sector, the phrase “stronger together” has never been more relevant. As organizations face mounting challenges—from funding cuts to political uncertainty—there can be a tendency to turn inward. However, for purpose-driven organizations to thrive in the face of adversity, it will be essential for them to leverage this season of change as an opportunity to build and strengthen effective partnerships, thereby maximizing their impact.
Youth Business International (YBI), the global leader in youth entrepreneurship, is calling for urgent action to support high-growth potential youth-led businesses trapped in the “missing middle.” YBI’s new policy paper sets out strategies to de-risk youth entrepreneurship and unlock sustainable economic growth, job creation, and innovation — particularly among underrepresented youth, women, and businesses outside traditional tech hubs.
This report explores how refugee entrepreneurship can drive inclusive economic growth across Europe, highlighting the untapped potential of refugees as innovators, job creators, and contributors to local economies. Drawing on expert workshops, lived experience, and case studies from across the continent, it examines the systemic barriers refugee entrepreneurs face—from regulatory and financial hurdles to social and political exclusion. A practical resource for policymakers, businesses, and civil society actors committed to economic inclusion and resilience. With Visa and Business Fights Poverty.
2025
Online gender-based violence (GBV) is driving women-owned micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) offline, shrinking markets, profits and global economic growth. This MSME Day, we’re calling for the private sector to take urgent action to address this issue and create a more inclusive digital business world. Our new research with Intuit and the World Bank’s ‘Women, Business, and the Law’ project sheds light on how.
The EU Green Claims Directive (GCD) will outlaw false environmental claims, regulating consumer trust, truthful business and meaningful sustainability action. Credible sustainability systems will be vital in corporate adaptation to the GCD. Influencing companies’ claims work, they can create positive impacts for people and planet. In Part Two of ISEAL’s credibility series, Vidya Rangan, Policy and Engagement Director and Patrick Mallet, ISEAL’s Innovations Director, reveal why credible claims are so vital.
Despite making up the majority of the garment, footwear, and textile workforce, women are vastly underrepresented in leadership and technical roles. A new RISE report explores how businesses can unlock flexible, inclusive pathways for career advancement—boosting retention, equity, and resilience. From fair promotion systems to childcare support, the solutions are practical, scalable, and urgent.
In this episode, we welcome Social Impact Pioneer Josh Wheeler — founder of Be Broadcast, award-winning broadcast PR strategist, and one of the UK’s leading voices on reshaping how we talk about climate change and how to move the conversation from climate fear, stalling and inaction, to something everyone can take positive action on.
