As 2016 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the year’s most noteworthy events and trends in the world of social enterprise and impact investing:
Social enterprises embrace the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 2016 saw a spate of social enterprises and impact investors adopting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the basis for their missions. A set of 17 global goals, such as “no poverty”, “zero hunger”, and “good health and well-being”, with a total of 169 targets for helping to ensure those objectives are reached, the SDGs were adopted by the UN in 2015.
Read more at: The Year In Social Enterprise And Impact Investing: 5 Happenings Of Note In 2016
