HOW WE WORK
Our approach to seeking solutions to the world’s most pressing problems has social entrepreneurs at its center. Why? Because these extraordinary leaders and their organizations are creating innovative models to drive equilibrium change—the disruption of social, economic, and political forces that enable inequality, injustice, and other thorny social and environmental problems to persist. By disrupting the status quo, social entrepreneurs open up the space for solutions to take root, scale, and become the foundation of profound social transformation and a more peaceful and prosperous world.
Social transformation is never the work of a single actor. It is almost always the result of powerful connection and collaboration between innovators, agitators, thought leaders, and those who hold levers of power in business and government.
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship was launched to provide a space to help forge those connections and morph them into real partnerships and impact.
The Skoll Foundation cultivates an ecosystem approach to driving equilibrium change, supporting and creating the conditions for social entrepreneurs’ innovations and models for change to flourish by:
- Investing in those innovations and models when they are ripe to deliver outsized impact and drive large-scale change to create a completely new, more just and equitable equilibrium.
- Building networks, collaborations, and partnerships to help scale the impact of social entrepreneurs.
- Leveraging media and storytelling to drive awareness, learning, and greater impact.