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Pollinate Energy to open Kolkata office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
Pollinate Energy, a social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, is expanding its operations into Kolkata, its third city in India. Alexie Seller, national manager - business development and operations ...

Australian, NZ social enterprises top B Corp list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... top 10% of all certified B Corps based on an assessment of the company's impact. Three Sista's, a Queensland social enterprise that will provide accommodation to people in Cairns and Indigenous people from Cape York who travel to Cairns for health services ...

School for Social Entrepreneurs holds NDIS training

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015  |  NEWS
The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) has launched an accelerator program to educate social enterprises for the changes that will come with the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). NDIS is being implemented across Australia ...

NAB launches Impact Investment Grant Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
National Australia Bank (NAB) has launched its AU$1 million Impact Investment Grants Program. Corinne Proske, head of community finance and development, NAB The fund will support the development of social enterprises - for-profit businesses that are ...

Westpac commits to recruiting 400 Indigenous university interns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... Foundation in 2012, which provided a "financial boost necessary to aid its early and steady growth into a maturing social enterprise," the bank said. See Also: Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

Foresters Community Finance appoint new CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
Foresters Community Finance has hired Ashley Hood as its new CEO. Hood has more than 25 years' experience in the banking in the banking industry, and has held senior executive roles in the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as well as executive director roles ...

SEFA finances three social enterprise projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Social Enterprise Finance Australia (SEFA) has made three new loans to social enterprises in Queensland and New South Wales, bringing their total loan book up to AU$7.5 million. Ben Gales, SEFA CEO The three loans were made to MiHaven Property Fund ...

Advisory Board's bold strategy to increase impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
Building impact investing in Australia will take leadership, action, and policy, according to an Australian report contributing to a global project to increase capacity in the market. graphic courtesy of Impact Investing Australia In conjunction with ...

Pollinate Energy to partner with Powershop

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
Pollinate Energy, a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, is establishing a partnership with Victorian energy retailer Powershop that will see the retailer donate $50 to Pollinate ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... businesses work for social ends. Currently, given the relatively short timescale of the formal social investment/social enterprise movement, there is not enough data to define general modalities of success, but Addarii pointed to several case studies ...