Social Innovation in Action 2025
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Acknowledgements
The Schwab Foundation recognizes the
incredible group of social entrepreneurs and
innovators in our community, along with their
teams, for all their pioneering work around the
world, their support for each other and the
Foundation, and their persistence and progress
in the service of others and the planet.
We would like to thank the Schwab Foundation
Board, which has steered the organization over
the years, and our partners who support the
Foundation, in particular Bayer Foundation,
Bertelsmann Foundation, Deloitte, EY, Frey
Charitable Foundation, GHR Foundation, Goldman Sachs Foundation, Motsepe
Foundation, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP
and SK Group’s Center for Social Value
Enhancement Studies.
Finally, we recognize the Schwab Foundation
team, François Bonnici, Gwendoline De Ganay,
Adam Gavin, Danson Gichini, Katerina Hoskova,
Veerle Klijn, Maria Inés Martin, Daniel Nowack,
Christa Odinga-Svanteson, Adedoyin Omidiran,
Sophia Otoo, Goy Phumtim, Jill Rademacher,
Sophia Simmons and Trang Vergan, who work
tirelessly to make this community’s impact visible,
and support and integrate all its work.Australia
Mehrdad Baghai
High Resolves
Jane Hunt
The Front Project
Mikaela Jade
Indigital
Bangladesh
A. H. Md. Maqsood Sinha
Waste Concern
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zoran Puljic
Mozaik Foundation
Lejla Radoncic
Bosnian Handicrafts
Brazil
Tasso Azevedo
MapBiomas
Rodrigo Baggio
RECODE
Adriana Barbosa
Preta Hub
Gisela Solymos
CREN - Centre of Nutritional
Recovery and Education
Vera R. Cordeiro
The Dara Institute
Valmir Gabriel Ortega
Belterra Agroflorestas
Claudio Padua
IPE - Instituto de
Pesquisas Ecológicas
Suzana Padua
IPE - Instituto de
Pesquisas Ecológicas Eugenio Scannavino
Saúde e Alegría
Sabine Zink Bolonhini
SAS Group
Cambodia
Sébastien Marot
Friends-International
Pierre Tami
Shift360
Canada
Adam Kahane
Reos Partners
Janet Longmore
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT)
Danya Pastuszek
Tamarack Institute for
Community Engagement
Colombia
Catalina Cock Duque
Fundacion Mi Sangre
Yves Moury
Fundación Capital - FundaK
Czech Republic
Petra Vitousova
Bily Kruh Bezpeci
Denmark
Thorkil Sonne
Specialisterne Foundation
Egypt
Helmy Abouleish
Sekem Group
Sameh Ghaly
Together Association for
Development and EnvironmentLaila Iskandar
CID Consulting
France
Corinne Bazina
La Fresque du Climat
Germany
Jürgen Griesbeck
Common Goal
Andreas Heinecke
Dialogue Social Enterprise
Harald Nusser
Merck
Markus H. Seidel
Off Road Kids Foundation
Rose Volz-Schmidt
wellcome
Ghana
Abraham Baffoe
Africa Sustainable
Commodities Initiative
Mawuse Christina Gyisun
Sommalife
Global
Madeleine Ballard
Community Health
Impact Coalition
India
Ved Mitra Arya
Responsible Coalition for
Resilient Communities
Khushboo Awasthi Kumari
Punjab Education Collective
Shuchin Bajaj
Ujala Cygnus Healthcare
Services Report methodology
For this report, we collected and analysed data from a variety of sources, ensuring
we heard from a representative sample of our community and gaining valuable
insights into the collective progress of the wider community. The data collected
consisted of:
109
social entrepreneurs and
innovators from across
the world completed our
community’s annual survey63
awardees from the
three most recent
cohorts contributed
data through the award
application process438
demographic and
operational data points
from across the entire
community, such as
gender and age We are grateful to all the social innovators and their teams who
contributed to, and are profiled in, this report:
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