Social Innovation
The social innovators empowering women worldwide
The social innovation sector has proven itself uniquely capable of empowering women leaders and changing the lives and welfare of all women.
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Social Innovation
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Social Innovation
From AI to peace, meet the finalists of the Schwab Foundation 2024 Social Innovation Awards
Every year the Schwab Foundation awards the most impactful social innovators from all over the world. Here are this year's nominees and the work they do.
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These maps show deforestation and much more across Latin America – here’s how they can help counter the climate crisis
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Social enterprises can play an important role in addressing social and environmental problems. But they need to be supported in order to be successful.
Global Cooperation
Uniting for change: the enablers and barriers to collective action
There's growing wisdom on what enables collective action and what could be barriers to it, having the right partners and goals are critical to its success.
Global Cooperation
Uniting for change: The imperative of collective action in a fragmented world
Effective collective action has the potential to drive policy change at local, national and international levels and spur the push to net zero.
How a women's cooperative in India is helping accelerate empowerment
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Civil Society
Refugees deserve compassion: a walk towards positive change
More than 110 million people are expected to be forcibly displaced by the end of 2023 and 45 million children will be at risk of starvation.
Education and Skills
This social entrepreneur has provided 225 million free books to low-income families
The number of books in a home is a remarkably good predictor of success in education and thus later in life. That matters — but educational equity is so much more than books, too.
9 ways young people are building the social and solidarity economy
The social and solidarity economy re-orients our economy to make sure it works for all of us. Here's how young people globally are making that happen.
Social Innovation
How 25 years of social innovation has transformed millions of lives
The world faces major technological, social, economic and geopolitical upheaval. That's why social innovation and those that practice it are so important.