Advancing social entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide

Empowering social entrepreneurs and innovators. Connecting global networks. Amplifying impact.

Redefining Value

Traditional funding models are falling short in addressing today’s social and environmental challenges. This new report by the Schwab Foundation, in collaboration with SK Group and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, introduces a bold alternative: tradeable impact. By transforming verified social outcomes—such as improved education, health, or caregiving—into economic value, tradeable impact creates new financial incentives for social enterprises, businesses, investors and governments.

The Future is Collective

Today’s most pressing challenges – rising inequality, environmental crises and social fragmentation – are too complex for any single organisation to solve alone. Collective social innovation offers a new way forward, bringing together diverse stakeholders to create systemic change.

2025 Awardees

Celebrating 18 leaders from 15 organisations driving positive change worldwide.

A global network

The world is ready to transition towards a stakeholder economy, a system designed to create equitable benefits for people and the planet. However, many companies and governments are struggling with this transformation. We provide a platform to recognise, promote and advance proven social innovation solutions and accelerate the world’s transition to the more inclusive and sustainable economy.  We are driven by their vision of the world that puts people and planet first.

931 million lives

directly improved

120+ members

leading ecosystem organisations advancing social innovation

$1.25 billion

mobilised by surveyed awardees

$902 million

generated in revenue by the last three cohorts of awardees

28,000 jobs

directly created by those three last cohorts

Explore our impact

In partnership with the World Economic Forum, we're accelerating the world's transition to a stakeholder economy.

Social entrepreneurs and innovators are driving social and environmental progress

Since its inception in 1998, the Schwab Foundation has amplified entrepreneurs and innovators reimagining social and economic systems to be more inclusive of people and more sustainable for the planet. Their models put purpose before profit and have proven to be effective and economically viable where market or development approaches have failed.

Award categories

We seek to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society.

Advancing social entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide