Publication insights As the field of social innovation evolves, the Schwab Foundation works collaboratively with its community, partners and the broader ecosystem in the foundation’s Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship to identify emerging themes arising in the social sector and on the global agenda. This work provides social entrepreneurs and innovators with a platform to present solutions on cutting-edge issues, influencing the agenda of stakeholders, while highlighting that social innovation remains a highly effective tool in addressing the most pressing challenges of our time. We invite you to discover the insights that have emerged from the work we published during the past year. Social innovation at intersection of climate and healthAI for Social Impact Inclusive health, sustainable agriculture and climate change are interconnected, requiring collective action for sustainability and justice. During the Annual Meeting 2024, the Schwab Foundation, in partnership with Bayer Foundation, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation, Impact Hub and Impact Intelligence, published an open dataset based on 2.5 million data points from Latin America and the Asia-Pacific, highlighting the role of social innovation at the intersection of climate change, food systems and inclusive healthcare. The dataset enables impact investors and other stakeholders to identify geographies where issue areas ripe for social innovation lack investment – from access to water and sanitation to food security. The report launched by the Foundation at the World Health Summit 2024 underscores its commitment to mobilizing funders for social innovation in climate and health – priority areas for 2025. Social entrepreneurs and innovators play a crucial role in addressing the complex relationship between inclusive health, sustainable agriculture and climate change. Their efforts foster partnerships and collaboration to develop ecologically sustainable, economically efficient and socially just environments. This insight report, which explores the social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific, highlights opportunities for private-sector investment and outlines how governments can support these efforts through policies and regulations that protect displaced and vulnerable populations.During the 2023 Schwab Foundation Summit, a diverse group of social entrepreneurs and innovators highlighted their enthusiasm and concerns about the potential impact of AI on their work and the social innovation sector at large. Based on these discussions, the Schwab Foundation launched the AI for Social Innovation initiative in October 2023 with the support of Microsoft and contributions from EY. The initiative is a collaborative project between social entrepreneurs and innovators, intermediaries and leading global companies such as Microsoft, EY and SAP with the overarching objectives to increase awareness and promote the ethical adoption of AI by social entrepreneurs and innovators. As part of its core activities, the initiative encourages dialogue between technology leaders and social entrepreneurs and 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. As part of its work, the initiative launched a series of reports in 2024. The first report presented a global landscape study based on a dataset of 300 social entrepreneurs and innovators, providing insights into how, where and in what impact areas social entrepreneurs and innovators are currently using AI. The second report introduced the “PRISM Framework,” which draws on the lived experiences and best practices of ecosystem organizations and social innovators to present a structured pathway through which social entrepreneurs and innovators can access and deploy the technology on their AI journey. The framework provides pathways for social entrepreneurs and innovators to adopt AI for their own organizations, while protecting their impact mission and addressing ethical considerations. Since its release in June 2024, the report’s insights have reached more than 58,000 social media users around the world. The third report in the series, published in September 2024, explored the landscape of private, public and ecosystem support and collaboration around AI for impact. Based on research, surveys and expert interviews, this report highlights the gap in financial and non-financial resources available to social entrepreneurs and innovators and other impact enterprises using AI. It also prescribes recommendations and success factors for leading technology companies and other ecosystem players to scale their support for responsible and impactful AI applications. Following this report series, the Schwab Foundation team is now focusing on resource mobilization in support of social entrepreneurs and innovators and enabling a dialogue between social entrepreneurs and innovators and technology leaders through a series that launched in November 2024 and runs into the first half of 2025. Scan to read the reports Scan to read the report Credit: Nutrivida 25 Schwab Foundation 2025 Awardees and Impact Report Schwab Foundation 2025 Awardees and Impact Report 24

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