Impact People

Nineteen young people from Torino, assembled by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, have now learned the basics of investing for impact. They are the Impact Generation. Now, their mandate is clear: establish a Youth Impact Agenda. They joined Ben at Impact Week to share their perspectives in this special live episode.

Courage. Vision. Resilience. Care. What does it take to make an impact when your context is crisis? We found out with this live recording at Impact Week in Torino, featuring Myrna Atalla (Executive Director, Alfanar), Gevorg Poghosyan (CEO, Impact Hub Yerevan) and Anna Gulevska-Chernysh (Chair, SILab Ukraine; Chair, Ukrainian Social Venture Fund). Stay tuned for more live episodes from Impact Week!  

Strengthening impact finance in Morocco: that’s one of happy smala’s key activities, as they just proved at their Impact Together! kick-off event. But what does that mean in practice? What is the role of crowdfunding? And what is a smala? Eric Asmar, happy smala’s CEO, has the answers. Join Eric for a conversation here – and at Impact Week, where he’ll be speaking at a panel on Resilient Cities. 

https://www.happysmala.com/ 

In part 2 of our special episode on EIB Institute’s Social Innovation Tournament, we have a winner! Several winners, in fact. Join us as we investigate what the SIT means for its finalists ("we're like a family"), featuring clips and interviews from the innovators behind Sophia Chatbot, Gribouilli,  BrainTrip and Fibsen.    

We’re back to the projects of Impact Together! and MENA’s impact people! Mariam AbdelKarim calls in from Cairo to talk about how Hivos helps build a green economy in the region; we discuss barriers, opportunities and an upcoming VC Summit where it’s all coming together. Plus, find out some top reasons to join Mariam and Ben at Impact Week!  

The EIB Institute’s Social Innovation Tournament was THE place to be for Europe’s impact entrepreneurs. Live from the event in Stockholm, Impact People presents a special 2-part episode on the thriving community that’s built up around SIT, delivering the tournament’s sounds and sensations directly to your earbuds. In part 1, we hear from alumni of the program, Hugo from Dreamwaves, Eefje from Cokido and De Stuyverij, and Rawaa from Resortecs -- plus, EIB Institute’s own Luisa Ferreira!  
 

What does impact investing have to do with the Apollo 14 moon mission? Find out on this very special episode of Impact People! Last week, at ImpactCity in the Hague, Europe’s leading impact funds gathered to join hands and join forces at an invite-only event: Capital Ideas. Lucky for us, Juli was on the guest list to gather perspectives, hear insights and share the microphone with the people behind the funds.

New season, new Impact People! For the next months, we’ll be talking to people from the Middle East and north Africa’s most impactful organisations: members of EVPA’s Impact Together! project. We kick things off with two guests from BuildPalestine, Besan Abu-Joudeh, CEO and Co-Founder, and Lama Amr, Executive Director. Join Besan and Lama at their summit event on 7-8 October!  

Learn more: https://buildpalestine.com/summit/ 

A totally fictional episode of Impact People. 

https://www.gamcare.org.uk/
https://www.begambleaware.org/self-exclusion 
https://safergamblinguk.org/ 

What makes a good impact neighbour? We set out to find out – live at the Impact in the Neighbourhood conference in Tbilisi, Georgia. This event marked a culmination point for many of the impact people previously featured on the podcast – a moment for unexpected connections and breakthrough moments, but also reflections on the state of impact throughout Europe’s east. And, with the perspectives of impact people from the Middle East and north Africa, we look ahead to the next season of Impact People.  

Learn more:

• https://www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/20230630/the-editors-post-neighbours-on-mission 
• https://collaborate4impact.org/  
• https://www.csrdg.ge/en  
• https://www.impactweek.eu/torino