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Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship March 25, 2025 Today’s most pressing challenges – rising inequality, environmental crises and social fragmentation – are too complex for any single organization to solve alone. Collective social innovation offers a new way forward, bringing together diverse stakeholders to create systemic change. This report, The Future is Collective: Advancing Collective…
The Chronicle of Philanthropy March 12, 2025 When Steve Ballmer stepped down as Microsoft’s CEO in 2014, with a $23 billion fortune at age 58, he began wearing lime-green golf shirts and insisted for a few months that his top priority was to enjoy retirement. His wife, Connie, nudged him to think about philanthropy, but…
Education First March 5, 2025 Education First is proud to facilitate the Commission on Purposeful Pathways, a time-bound initiative addressing one of education’s most critical challenges: helping all young people successfully transition from high school to fulfilling careers. Why this matters now Every high school student should have access to the opportunities they need to…
Dallas News February 24, 2025 Texas students are falling behind in math, threatening their ability to thrive in tomorrow’s economy, advocates warn. The state can only fill high-demand, high-paying jobs in health care, technology and construction with local students if leaders address Texas’ long-standing decline in the subject, they said. Roughly 80% of the state’s…
Cincinnati Business Courier October 31, 2024 The Cincinnati Business Courier has chosen the winners for the 2024 Women Who Mean Business Awards. The annual program, which started in 2016, honors Greater Cincinnati women whose accomplishments over the past year have had an outsized impact on their business and our community. Read full story >>
The Brookings Institution September 9, 2024 This compendium of essays expands on the conversation from a roundtable hosted by the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution on April 5, 2024. The event’s purpose was to generate a discussion on the role of international expertise and international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in a localization frame,…
The Chronicle of Philanthropy September 18, 2024 I know firsthand the transformative power of networks. My wife, Daphine Namara, and I are both nonprofit leaders from Uganda, driven by a shared passion to make a difference in our communities. Yet our journeys couldn’t be more different. Daphine, a medical doctor and health care entrepreneur, runs…
The EdRedesign Lab (EdRedesign) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has announced the launch of their new Fellowship for Cradle-to-Career Partnership Leaders, a tuition-free, 18-month visiting Fellowship for senior leaders working in the cradle-to-career place-based partnership field. The Fellowship is grounded in real-world applications across a variety of partnership models and was developed…
World Economic Forum This year, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has awarded 16 organizations for their social innovation. These organizations offer hope at a time when faith in leadership is in decline worldwide. They show how innovative approaches to deep-seated problems can deliver transformation in areas such as healthcare and education, finance and law, the empowerment…
Philanthropy News Digest Blue Meridian Partners has announced three place-based partnerships totaling $150 million in support of community-driven plans designed to break cycles of poverty. Made as part of the Place Matters portfolio, of which Ballmer Group is an anchor funder, the commitment was divided equally among Dallas, San Antonio, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, catalyzing regional and local funding totaling…
World Economic Forum Social innovators the world over are building trust through systemic solutions to the many challenges facing the world today. They positively impact our economic systems, societies and the environment. For 25 years, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has been at the forefront of bringing together the world’s leading social innovators across diverse…
Journal-News A national organization this week presented a local education trailblazer with its top award for his work in education and reducing gaps in academic achievement in Ohio and across the nation. Tom Lasley was recognized by StriveTogether with the Bill Henningsgaard Cradle to Career Champion award before 600 leaders from around the nation at…
