The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has launched a working group to look at tax incentives and social investment to stimulate the social investment market ahead of the...
A new social investment fund that allows philanthropists to ‘perpetually invest’ in creating more robust charities was launched by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) on Monday.
A new report outlines lessons learned from the development of the world's first Social Impact Bond (SIB) created to fund interventions at Peterborough Prison and cut re-offending. The report is based on interviews with...
In its first co-investment, the Private Equity Foundation (PEF) has joined forces with private equity firm Cinven to give follow-on funding to PEF portfolio charity...
Two new charitable investments by the Private Equity Foundation (PEF) have taken the venture philanthropy fund’s total investment in Germany to €400,000 (£365,000).
More than $750m (£517m) will be pumped into small- and medium-sized businesses in the developing world, to reduce poverty by a new group of foundations and for-profit social venture funds, it...
As the recession begins to bite deeper into the public consciousness, and government, economists and business debate ways to tackle the economic crisis, Philanthropy UK highlights an emerging, promising financial...