Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Annual Report 2024 2025

The Schwab Foundation collaborates with its community, partners and the broader ecosystem to identify emerging themes that are crucial for the sector and society at large. By doing so, the foundation helps social innovators and their ecosystem shape the agenda for social innovation and provides a platform for innovators to present their solutions on cutting- edge issues such as AI, innovative finance and climate adaptation. This proactive and collective approach ensures that social innovation remains relevant and effective in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. Between July 2024 and June 2025, the foundation published thematic reports on topics such as collective social innovation, AI and social enterprise data. These reports have been widely recognized and have positioned the foundation and its global alliance as a premier platform for social innovation.AI for Social Innovation The AI for social innovation initiative is a collaborative project between social innovators and companies such as Microsoft, EY and SAP . It encourages dialogue between technology leaders and social innovators to inform the future development of AI, mobilizes resources for the impactful application of AI for impact and builds capacity in the social innovation ecosystem. The initiative’s first year, 2024, saw the launch of three reports, which reached tens of thousands of readers and are listed among the top 10% of Forum reports by readership. The workstream activities for 2025 were built on this earlier work to deepen the engagement initiated over the past year. In response to individual engagements with leading technology companies and social innovators alike, the workstream has commenced mapping out the process for 26Collective action on key issues for the sector 26 Schwab Foundation Annual Report 2024–2025