An Unreasonable Partnership
November 8, 2011
Since Volans co-founders John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan published The Power of Unreasonable People in 2008, social and environmental entrepreneurs have continued... More...
FQ Star Spotlight: Ushahidi
October 24, 2011
The FQ Report recognizes Ushahidi as a superstar – shining brilliant and energizing all around them. Ushahidi, meaning ‘testimony’ in Swahili, uses open-source software and... More...
Rewarding Londoners for behaviour change
October 18, 2011
Recyclebank and Transport for London today announced what we think is an exciting new scheme that will incentivise Londoners to cycle and walk... More...
Social OPEX expands
September 8, 2011
Social OPEX is a leadership development programme, co-developed by Allianz and Volans, that seeks to transfer business skills to high-impact social enterprises, helping... More...
Interview with founder of Patients Know Best
September 6, 2011
Patients Know Best is a young, but steadily growing social enterprise based in Cambridge, UK that is bringing innovation to the UK’s healthcare... More...
Driving social innovation in the classroom
September 5, 2011
The private sector can drive social innovation, and Hewlett Packard continues to prove it. As Gabi Zedlmayer, VP of the Office of Global Social... More...
Blue Planet Goes Barefoot
July 27, 2011
Barefoot College, founded by Volans advisory Board member Bunker Roy, is one of the winners of this year’s Blue Planet Prize—which is in its twentieth... More...
Volans Joins Designers Accord
June 15, 2011
We are delighted to have joined the Designers Accord, as a Corporate Adopter. Adopters of the Designers Accord commit to five guidelines that... More...
Geoffrey West on unified field theory of scaling
May 29, 2011
Time and again, I hear people saying that Twitter only brings them dross, but time and again I find it brings a real haul of... More...
Muhammad Yunus’ new form of capitalism
May 25, 2011
Professor Mohammad Yunus spoke yesterday morning at a NESTA event attended by a number of curious and concerned folk involved in London’s social entrepreneurship... More...
