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Have you ever started your new business? What have you learned? Even in the case of failure, you have paid into your competences and...
Mar 5
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A Letter to Players (of the Impact Ecosystem)
Dear Impact People, SocialFinanceLab, the platform, has made its debut! With something for every player of the impact business ecosystem,...
Nov 24, 2022
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SocialFinanceLab Sneak Peek
The SocialFinanceLab platform will launch in the coming months, but here's a window into what's to come... The platform features a...
Jul 26, 2022
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5 Steps to Measure Impact
First of all, let’s ask ourselves the question, why does it make sense to measure, quantify impact at all? Impact aims for system and...
Jul 18, 2022
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The Opportunity for "New" Impact Leadership in the UK
What is, what could and what should be the "new normal" in the UK? Any recent conversation regarding social finance is likely to include...
Jul 6, 2022
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Changing Ireland: My Big Idea
In Changing Ireland: My Big Idea, a TV show brought to us by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland and broadcast on Irelands main TV station RTE,...
Jun 29, 2022
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3 Pillars of Resilience in a Social Business
According to a United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and Social Enterprise UK study from 2021, social...
May 10, 2022
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Social Needs and Planting Seeds
The basics and benefits of social marketing and an example of the beauty it can promote What is Social Marketing and how can social...
Mar 15, 2022
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Banks. Do they have what you need?
We decided to have a look at what advice banks and other financial institutions offer for entrepreneurs. Here are a few insights that...
Feb 14, 2022
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Timing & Transparency in Fundraising
Knowing your community and your key strengths: A crowdfunding success. ESC zine was an Irish-based writing and visual art zine founded in...
Jan 18, 2022
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A Social Dilemma – the challenges of social entrepreneurship and sustainability
What does it take to set up a successful social enterprise? I have been lucky to sit down with Ally Elouise, owner of ‘Prom Ally’ to...
Dec 16, 2021
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Sustainable Funding Schemes #SocialFinanceLab
An absolutely essential, mandatory element of a sustainable business model is a stable funding scheme. In order to actually propose an...
Nov 29, 2021
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Must Have vs. Nice to Have
#AdviceForNewEntrepreneurs “Sometimes, we manage to push each other away without meaning it at all, in regards to attracting investments,...
Nov 22, 2021
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SocialFinanceLab @INSPIRE conference
Get insights into our SocialFinanceLab project from Iris, our project coordinator, who was invited to speak at the INSPIRE conference...
Oct 5, 2021
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Not a Lack of Funding
Lessons Learned from Alternative Finance Experts - A View from Spain Culture is an extremely complex concept to define. It is generally...
Aug 25, 2021
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Women as social entrepreneurs and why is it harder for them to obtain investments
An estimated 45% of the world's social entrepreneurs are female, according to the research. That's truly gender-balanced, especially when...
Jul 16, 2021
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Germany's Impact Venture Movement
SocialFinanceLab joins in to build a strong impact venture movement in Germany Social Entrepreneurship is on the agenda of the financial...
Jul 1, 2021
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4 Tips for Social Business
4 Tips for a Profitable Social Business, from an Expert It might be almost overwhelming– the initial idea, the launch, the amount of...
Jun 30, 2021
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Keeping it Straight: Social Business vs. NGO
The blurred line between a social business and a non-governmental organization (NGO): How to establish your value Social business is...
Jun 30, 2021
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A View from Germany - Focus Groups
Here in Germany, we recently had the pleasure of speaking with a couple of focus groups about social and alternative finance. The purpose...
Apr 22, 2021
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A View from the UK
One challenge that the SocialFinanceLab team faces is that start-up consultants are often not aware of what social enterprises are and...
Mar 10, 2021
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A View from Ireland
So far on our dive into the world of social enterprise funding we have learned so much. We have been tasked with researching the...
Feb 22, 2021
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First Transnational Project Meeting
Setting the goal, paving the way for the next steps and growing together as a team were the main objectives of the first SocialFinanceLab...
Jan 22, 2021
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SocialFinanceLab Introductory Meeting
As soon as we got the go from the German National Agency that SocialFinanceLab had been selected for the Erasmus+ co-funding, we held a...
Jan 7, 2021
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Erasmus Plus KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Project No: 2020-1-DE02-KA202-007564
Project title: Collaborate learning of alternative finances and funding for social entrepreneurs
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