Nesta plans to develop social finance market

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector Online, 8 May 2008

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts has announced the start of a new programme to develop a social finance market.

The project, which forms part of Nesta’s Challenge social innovation programme, will look into ways of bringing risk capital to the market and explore methods by which sustainable equity funds could attract new investors. The Nesta project will build on the idea that the role of small investors has been...

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