Business Fights Poverty
A business-led collaboration network focused on social impact comprised of a global community passionate about building an equitable and resilient future. Business Fights Poverty believes in the power of business to help improve the lives, livelihoods and learning opportunities of the most vulnerable people and communities.
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OVERVIEW
Business fights poverty facilitates collaboration between companies to access the insights and relationships they need to unlock new opportunities for business to have a positive social impact. Business Fights Poverty has been a UK B Corporation since September 2015, with an overall B impact score of 111.7, compared to the median impact score of 50.9 (as of 2022).
Business fights poverty believe that collaboration is crucial in building an equitable and resilient future, and have therefore created spaces for collaboration to facilitate outcomes for the 35,000+ members of the community including:
- Convenings – To share latest thinking
- Circles – Topic focused peer circles for wisdom and support
- Collaborations – Fast paced discussions for action and solutions
- Collective insights – Regular articles, reports and tools for thought leadership
- Communications – Leveraging the platform to advocate topic-focused issues and spread awareness
Business fights poverty partners with businesses and has individual members who include corporate executives, entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, investors, donor agency staff, policy officials, non-government organisation staff, academics and students.
Business fights poverty provides an array of learning resources including events, podcasts, videos, articles, and reports on dozens of topics, including enterprise, environment, finance and investment, gender equality, governance and transparency, inclusive business, refugees and migrations and sustainable development goals (SDGs).
MISSION STATEMENT
Community vision:
Our vision is of an active global community of pioneers pushing the boundaries of how business can fight poverty, empowered by the connections they make and ideas they generate here on Business Fights Poverty.
FUNDING SOURCES
Business Fights Poverty is funded by various partners and sponsors, that fund specific collaborations and events. A full list of partners and sponsors can be found here.