Annual Report 2024 2025

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship At the Schwab Foundation, we champion the individuals and organizations who are rewriting the rules of social impact. By scaling up proven innovations and fostering collaboration across sectors, we are accelerating the transition to a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable global economy. François Bonnici, Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship In partnership with the Forum, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship convenes a global community of 500 pioneering social entrepreneurs and innovators. It believes in the power of these people to create systemic change and drive the transition to a stakeholder economy, and seeks to accelerate social innovation for a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive world by providing a platform to recognize, promote and advance proven social innovation solutions. The foundation’s priorities focus on four key areas: community development through its annual awards, mobilizing private-sector support, developing policy insights and helping to reinforce the social innovation ecosystem. Every year, the foundation develops its community of social entrepreneurs and innovators through the Schwab Foundation Awards. These recognize outstanding individuals and organizations in four categories: social entrepreneurs, corporate social innovators, public social innovators and collective social innovators. The Schwab Foundation mobilizes the private sector to support social innovation, create partnerships and encourage companies to adopt social innovation principles. This is achieved through initiatives like the Rise Ahead Pledge, the Corporate Leadership Council and the Corporate Social Innovation Compass. The foundation offers policy insights, data and best practices to advance the social innovation agenda globally. It plays a vital role in supporting the development and adoption of social economy policies. Key initiatives in this area include the Policy Leadership Council on the Social Economy and The State of Social Enterprise report. The Schwab Foundation is dedicated to reinforcing the social innovation ecosystem. It does so by elevating proven innovators, advocating for critical emerging issues that drive economies and societies, such as AI (AI for Impact: Strengthening AI Ecosystems for Social Innovation), innovative finance (Beyond Compliance: Embedding Impact through Innovative Finance) and climate adaptation (Unlocking the Social Economy: Towards Equity in the Green and Digital Transitions). Among its highlights during the reporting period were the meetings it organized for its Collective Social Innovation awardees in Geneva, Switzerland and Bengaluru, India. These meetings aimed to maximize collective action on complicated global issues, bringing together more than 40 organizations from 20 countries to share strategies. The foundation welcomed 42 social entrepreneurs and innovators to the Annual Meeting 2025 and announced the 2025 Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators of the Year. The 18 new awardees came from 15 organizations working to transform healthcare and education, create livelihoods for economically marginalized communities, protect nature and drive systemic change. Annual Report 2024-2025 Our Organization63