Forty-four percent of nonprofit groups plan to hire more workers this year, up from only a third two years ago, according to a survey of more than 580 organizations by Nonprofit HR Solutions, a human resources consulting firm. Health nonprofits, followed by environmental and animal-welfare groups, were most likely to report plans to hire, according … Continue reading
Since the field is scattered and nascent, finding work in social enterprise is almost never a clear path from submitting an application to getting that interview and landing a job. The leap can be a daunting journey. Continue reading
The government’s controversial welfare to work initiative has suffered another blow after it emerged that a social enterprise firm hired to get the long-term jobless into employment has gone into liquidation, claiming banks refused to lend it money to stay afloat because they considered the work programme to be too financially risky. Eco Actif, a … Continue reading