Explore our Social Ventures

Wise Responder

Wiser Responder started out as SOPHIA Oxford, enabling businesses to incorporate key social indicators into sustainable business practices that improve the impact of their social investments and the lives of their employees.

SOPHIA Oxford has now created the social enterprise Wise Responder Inc. Wise Responder’s groundbreaking scientific methodology brings quantifiable metrics to where it’s most needed to financial institutions, investors and businesses.

Find out more about how this became OUI’s first social venture.

Greater Change C.I.C

Greater Change is a nonprofit enterprise that wants to contribute to policy change and see the end of homelessness for good.

Founder Alex McCallion was interviewed about Greater Change and where it will go next.

Nature-based Insights

Nature-based Insights applies the latest science to help businesses and financial institutions implement nature-based solutions with integrity.

They provide analytics on nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities to set, achieve, and monitor evidence-based targets for climate, nature, and its biodiversity.

Their mission is to ensure investments go towards nature-based solutions that are effective, net-zero aligned, ecologically sound, and socially just.

OpenClinical C.I.C

OpenClinical-based apps support care professionals to practise
in compliance with guidelines. Better compliance saves costs
and can save lives, but guidelines are complex. OPS manages the complexity. Only pathways for the individual case are presented, along with all valid decision options, and arguments for and against each option. This is “Transparent AI”, and is well accepted by clinicians and carers.

The 1928 Institute

A not-for-profit for researching and representing British Indians, analysing emerging events in the Indian sub-continent and within its diaspora and providing a platform for dialogue for the diaspora and to disrupt ‘echo chambers’.

OxProx

OxProx is a public database of the proxy voting records of institutional investors – mutual funds, index funds, pension funds, and others. Improved transparency and comprehensive data will improve investor accountability, voting outcomes, and business practices.

Founder Ian Robertson talks about OxProx