Funders are risk-averse, say social entrepreneurs

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 9 April 2008

Sector funders are too worried about risk, social entrepreneurs told Conservative front bench MPs Greg Clark and Francis Maude.

They made the charge at a forum organised by social enterprise support organisation Can Mezzanine to discuss issues such as business support, loan funds and the delivery of social services. Social entrepreneurs told the Tory politicians that existing social financiers needed to be more daring in their investments. Clark, the...

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