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A survey on social finance (Sep. ‘21), commissioned by DCU and responded to by almost 200 social enterprises across Ireland, revealed a number of interesting findings. One such outcome was that half of the respondents source their finance directly from the...

Social Impact Bonds are a relatively recent innovation, circa 2007. They are financial instruments designed to use private, public, philanthropic funds or a combination of these to finance work to help solve complex social problems. It is important to note that SIBs...

On Thursday 2nd June 2022, leaders of social enterprises and support organisations, government representatives and social finance experts all met in Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin, to discuss the future of Social Finance in Ireland.  As part of the ‘Financing Social...

And the awareness of how they differ is becoming increasingly important as the Not for Profit sector looks towards sustainability and ongoing success. In September 2021, responses provided to a survey on Social Finance (commissioned by Dublin City University)...

Social impact bonds are an innovative financial instrument that puts private funds to work to help solve social problems. It represents a monetary influx for social projects and gives investors an opportunity to support social issues and turn a profit all at the same...

We are delighted to invite you to participate in a short workshop and follow up on Thursday 5th May from 16:00 until 17:15.  We have been working hard on our Social Finance project and believe we have something that might be of interest to you. This 'model social...

In conjunction with SocialFinance.ie, Community Finance Ireland will host three information workshops to equip your organisation with all the tips necessary to make a successful application for Social Finance with us.These 45 minute sessions will be hosted...

We are busy lining up some workshops in the coming weeks starting this Friday 5th November with a packed out 'Organisational structure, form status and potential relationships with group structure' We still have two workshops coming up on the 12th and 26th November:...

In July 2020, the EU’s Taxonomy Regulation entered into force. This is a classification system which establishes a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities: climate change mitigation/adaptation, transition to a circular economy etc. This created a...