Schmidt Futures supports projects at the intersection of talent and technology, centred on specific, finite challenges that are connected to other efforts in the Schmidt philanthropic network.

A Band of Brothers is a nonprofit established by men committed to positive social change through personal development and community building. A Band of Brothers was a participant in our first UK Scale Accelerator  programme.

BeadforLife provide business training, programmes and support that enables women in Uganda who live in extreme poverty to become self-sustaining entrepreneurs thus, improving their livelihoods and well-being. One example is the Beading programme where fashionable fairtrade products are created in conjunction with business concepts such as accounting and quality control being taught.  We have worked with Bead for Life since August 2015 with the purpose of helping the organisation assess feasibility, develop a scale strategy and design a model for replicating their Street Business School (SBS), a programme that supports women to develop their capacity and business skills.

Books Beyond Words is a nonprofit working to empower people who can't read, or struggle with the written word, to cope with feelings. Their work is based on the Books Beyond Words series, compromised of books that help people to understand their world through pictures that tell stories about themes such as love and relationships, health, death and crime.

To support the books, Beyond Words offer a training service to help teach interested individuals how best to use the books, both in a one to one environment and in groups. The training can then lead to people setting up book clubs. Based on the current success of the books, training and book clubs Books Beyond Words are looking to expand their current reach across the UK and internationally, with a particular interest in scaling to the US.

We are working with the Beyond Words team to take their training and book clubs to scale, by designing a replication system that will sustain social impact and financial sustainability across the UK, while also identifying potential areas of adaption to take the model to the US in the future.

Code Club is a nationwide network of free volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children aged 9-12. Code Club have volunteers teaching coding at local venues with the volunteers being trained online. Code Club aims to be in every primary school in the UK and now has plans for international expansion.Internationally the network has grown organically with four countries becoming ‘established’, largely through having a motivated local individual.

We are working with Code Club to facilitate workshops around the sustainability of the offer to new countries. Specifically to explore how the relationships created can last to enable Code Club to grow stronger over time, reaching primary schools all over the world.

FoodCycle is a national UK nonprofit that combines volunteers, surplus food and spare kitchen spaces to create tasty, nutritious meals for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation. Funded by NESTA, we worked with FoodCycle to design and systemise the organisation for scale to 200 locations across the UK. Read more here.

Recognising the potential for collaboration, we proposed helping a group of Colombian-based social organisations replicate by creating a cohort of funders and grantees. We are working with Fundación Mario Santo Domingo - a leading Colombian foundation - as part of this cohort.

Recognising the potential for collaboration, we proposed helping a group of Colombian-based social organisations replicate by creating a cohort of funders and grantees. We are working with Fútbol Con Corazón - a leading Colombian social enterprise - as part of this cohort.

GroFin are the largest provider of medium term loans and specialised business support to small & medium-sized enterprises (SME) across Africa and the Middle East. Their investments generate employment, strengthen value chains and bring inclusive growth and improved living conditions. Currently in 15 countries, we collaborated with GroFin to develop a detailed plan to scale into many more countries.

The Human Development Research Foundation (HDRF) is nonprofit charitable trust which aims to assist governmental and non-governmental organisations in developing indigenous models of research and service for the optimal physical, mental and social well-being of Pakistanis.

We are working with HDRF to develop and pilot a plan to replicate their FaNs network which improves outcomes for children with intellectual and developmental disorders.

Lava Mae takes radical hospitality to the streets by repurposing retired transportation buses into showers and toilets on wheels to deliver hygiene and restore dignity among the homeless in San Francisco & Los Angeles. We worked with Lava Mae to concentrate its expansion efforts in light of the huge need and opportunity, as well as external pressure to scale up in multiple directions. Read more about how we’re partnering with Lava Mae.

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is one of the largest international family planning organisations in the world. Millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality family planning and reproductive healthcare.

We work with MSI in Zambia on their Diva Centres initiative which is a human centred design approach to encouraging adolescents to access sexual health services. We are helping MSI to think about how this programme can be scaled and made sustainable.

NSPCC is the UK’s leading children’s nonprofit fighting to end child abuse. We have partnered with NSPCC to replicate a number of their successful evidence-based programmes. Baby Steps is an example of one such programme, an antenatal education programme to help vulnerable parents cope with the pressures of a new baby. We worked with NSPCC to develop a social franchise model for mainstream delivery of Baby Steps.

The Nike Foundation invests in adolescent girls as powerful agents of change in the developing world and more so of eliminating poverty for themselves. We partnered with Nike Foundation’s Girl Hub to develop a concept for a Girl Effect Marketplace, connecting proven ventures with social implementers across the world.

PSI, the largest social franchise in the world, is a nonprofit organisation that seeks to increase the availability of health and population control products/services in low-income areas of the world. We worked with PSI in over 10 developing countries to improve their primary healthcare franchise network.

Regional and European Co-Operative for Social Industry (RECOSI) is an Irish nonprofit whose main objective is to develop the commercial activity of social enterprises in a meaningful and profitable way by combining the resources and expertise of both the social enterprises and commercial sector. We are working with RECOSI to help them develop a plan to replicate their social impact in the USA.

Recovery Cafe Seattle is a refuge for healing and hope, helping countless women and men traumatised by homelessness, addiction and other mental health challenges. Recovery Cafe Seattle provides a beautiful, safe, warm, drug and alcohol free space and loving community to anchor members in the sustained recovery needed to gain and maintain access to housing, social and health services, healthy relationships, education and employment. We are working with Recovery Cafe to bring this impactful service to more communities throughout the US.

SHINE is a nonprofit that changes the lives of young people by providing them with additional English & Maths support and creative learning opportunities after school, on Saturdays and in the school holidays. They develop and support programmes to help those from low-income families to attain the same educational opportunities as their wealthier peers.

We worked with Shine Trust to create a strategy for how they can scale their Shine on Saturday programme.

Sistema Biobolsa encourages food security, environmental stewardship and economic prosperity by providing small and medium sized farmers with high-quality, cost-effective biodigester systems. They call this “Sistema Biobolsa”—which converts livestock waste into organic fertilizer and renewable energy i.e. biogas for cooking, heat and electricity. They are dedicated to the well-being of small and medium-sized farmers, climate change mitigation and the harmony of rural communities with our planet.

We began working with Sistema Biobolsa in late 2015 to develop a global scale strategy and replication model, with a core focus on Nicaragua. The overall objective for Sistema Biobolsa is to scale the company’s impact in a financially sustainable way that maintains the highest product and service quality while ensuring the core social values of the business remain.

Street Doctors is a UK nonprofit who change the lives of high risk young people by giving them the skills they need to deliver life-saving first aid. Through the programme Street Doctors aim to increase the confidence and aspirations of youths, give them a sense of responsibility for their actions and help them to change their attitudes towards violence.

We facilitated an initial workshop with Street Doctors to consider their replication potential and are now providing ongoing support and advice to Street Doctors as they develop a replication model for international expansion.

Success for All Foundation seeks to break the cycle of failure with thoroughly researched, proven-to-work literacy programs. Partnering with pre-kindergarten to 8th grade schools across the United States of America, Success for All has helped millions of children to read, achieve and gain a new vision for their futures.

We are working with Success for All to develop a robust replication strategy and system for the Tutoring with Alphie (TwA) element of their programme. TwA is a computer-assisted small group tutoring model enabling paraprofessionals to work effectively with a larger number of students.

Tender is a UK nonprofit that uses theatre and the arts to engage young people in violence prevention, enabling them to recognise and avoid abuse and violence. We worked with Tender to develop a social franchise model enabling them to scale the delivery of their successful schools programme across the UK that delivers projects on topics such as sexual bullying to promote equality and respect.

UK Community Foundations (UKCF) is a network of community foundations across the UK, providing advice and support to their members and helping channel funding to where it’s needed most. We worked with UKCF to develop a strategy for replicating their grantees and conducted a series of training workshops.

Wilderness Schooling delivers the core curriculum (Maths, Science, English) using the outdoors as the classroom resource to help schools to meet the educational needs and wellbeing of children. In conjunction with support from Numbers for Good and Big Potential, we worked with Wilderness Schooling to create an ambitious yet realistic scale strategy.

World Health Partners (WHP) are an international non-profit that delivers healthcare including reproductive health services within a walkable distance in underserved communities in rural areas, in particular India and Western Kenya.  They aim to create a sustainable health system through preventing onset of illnesses and to ensure simple sicknesses do not deteriorate. We are working with WHP to develop a replication strategy for scale across India and beyond.

Youth Hostel Association (YHA) have been helping young people and schools, families and friends, travellers and individuals to have the unique opportunity to discover, explore and gain new experiences while providing youth hostels and other accommodation thus promoting their health, recreation and education. We worked with YHA to improve the functioning of their ‘Enterprise’ scheme, a network of independently owned hostels across the UK.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) aims to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries, thus contributing to poverty reduction. AfDB funded a series of workshops, facilitated by the Social Fund for Development in Egypt, in which we participated by introducing social and micro franchising to the Egyptian market.

Through events and workshops, we discussed case studies, illustrated best practices, outlined financing mechanisms and drove awareness about the benefits of social and micro franchising to the country’s key stakeholders in large micro finance institutions (MFIs), corporations and NGOs.

Argidius aims to help entrepreneurs to build profitable businesses and contribute to the sustainable development of their communities. They do so by improving the effectiveness and reach of small and medium enterprise capacity development services. We are working with Argidius to scale up mentoring programmes for small and medium enterprises across emerging economies with the aim of creating more jobs.

The Big Lottery Fund awards grants to UK organisations to help improve their communities. They are responsible for distributing 40 per cent of all funds raised for good causes by the National Lottery. We have partnered with The Big Lottery Fund on a number of projects from research into social replication, to events and training on scale up, to working with three of their grantees on the first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

They partner with organisations that work to advance the foundation’s overall mission and the strategic goals within programmes. Each programme has its own funding criteria, geographic scope, and requirements. The programmes are managed by dedicated staff with deep field expertise and networks.

Big Society Capital is an independent financial institution that helps to grow social investment in the UK. A special focus on providing homes to those in need, supporting communities to improve livelihoods and early action to prevent problems. We partnered with Big Society Capital to assess the viability of investing in franchised social enterprise. You can read the report here.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation work with partner organisations worldwide to tackle critical problems in specialised areas. It is part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include Spring Impact, The Center for Health Market Innovations, GlaxoSmithKline, Innovations in Healthcare (formerly The International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery), Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co, Merck Serono, Save the Children and T-HOPE at The University of Toronto.

The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) promotes the diffusion of programs, policies and practices that improve the quality and affordability of healthcare for the world’s poor. CHMI  is part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include Spring Impact, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, Innovations in Healthcare (formerly The International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery), Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co, Merck Serono, Save the Children and T-HOPE at The University of Toronto.

The City Bridge Trust provides grants to charitable projects working to benefit the inhabitants of Greater London. The City Bridge Trust supported our first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making organisations in the UK. The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation supported our first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a science-led global healthcare company with a mission to help people to do more, feel better and live longer. GSK  is part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include Spring Impact, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Center for Health Market Innovations, Innovations in Healthcare (formerly The International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery), Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co, Merck Serono, Save the Children and T-HOPE at The University of Toronto.

Garfield Weston is a family-founded, grant-making trust which has been supporting a charities across the UK for nearly 60 years. They support a broad range of industries including charities in education, environment, health, youth and more. Garfield Weston supported our first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

Innovations in Healthcare has a social mission of increasing global access to cost-effective and high-quality healthcare, and believes this achievement is a critical component to reducing healthcare delivery inequities in the world.

Innovations in Healthcare is part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include Spring Impact, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Center for Health Market Innovations, GlaxoSmithKline, Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co,Merck Serono, Save the Children and T-HOPE at The University of Toronto.

The Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales promotes practical approaches to long-term change and enables nonprofits to break or prevent the cycle of disadvantage. Through this process, it allows them to focus on those most in need. Lloyds Bank Charitable Foundation supported our first UK Scale Accelerator  programme.

Merck&Co and Merck Serono are separate pharmaceutical companies however both are part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include ICSF, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Center for Health Market Innovations, GlaxoSmithKline, Innovations in Healthcare (formerly The International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery), Novo Nordisk, Save the Children and T-HOPE at The University of Toronto.

Rapid Routes to Scale undertook the first ever global in-depth study to identify healthcare innovations in developing countries that have the potential to be replicated to increase accessibility to affordable medicine. Find out more here.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. Novo Nordisk is part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include ICSF, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Center for Health Market Innovations, GlaxoSmithKline,Innovations in Healthcare (formerly The International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery), Save the Children, Merck & Co,Merck Serono and T-HOPE at The University of Toronto.

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation aims to help people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, so that they can realise their potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives. They are especially proactive in improving opportunities and life chances for young people. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation supported our first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

The Rockefeller Foundation aims to improve the well-being of humanity around the world. We were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to create the first social franchise accelerator in South Africa. Working alongside partners at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Cape Town University Graduate School of Business and Franchising Plus, we helped four high profile organisations scale up including Ikamva Youth, Philani Child Health and Nutrition, U-Turn Homeless Ministries and Silulo Technologies.

Save the Children runs world-class programmes to save children’s lives and challenge world leaders to keep to their promises to give children a brighter future. Save the Children is part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include ICSF, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Center for Health Market Innovations, GlaxoSmithKline, Innovations in Healthcare (formerly The International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery), Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co, Merck Serono and T-HOPE at The University of Toronto.

The Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges through a variety of programmes with a key focus on major social & environmental issues linked to the energy sector. We worked with the Shell Foundation by supporting two of their social enterprise grantees; GroFin and Husk Power Systems.

Toronto Health Organisation Performance Evaluation (T-HOPE) is a research team composed of a diverse group of medical, management, and social science experts based at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Department of Family and Community Medicine.

T-HOPE is part of Rapid Routes to Scale; a unique group of stakeholders from the academic, social and private sectors, committed to ensuring people in low and middle income countries have better health by understanding how primary care can be scaled and acting upon it.

Members include ICSF, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Center for Health Market Innovations, GlaxoSmithKline,Innovations in Healthcare (formerly The International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery), Novo Nordisk, Merck & Co, Merck Serono and Save the Children. 

The Monument Trust provides grants to varied and geographically wide projects, including funding of the arts and heritage, health and social care, and criminal justice. The Monument Trust supported our first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

The Rayne Foundation helps and encourages inspiring individuals and organisations who can help build bridges within our complex world. The Rayne Foundation supported our first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust, which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK. The Tudor Trust supported our first UK Scale Accelerator programme.

USAID is the lead US Government agency that works to end extreme poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realise their potential. Through this it promotes a path to self-reliance and resilience.  USAID funds the nutrition, agriculture and economic development Yaajeende programme in Senegal. Yaajeende is recognised in international development circles for its unique ability to successfully integrate nutrition development with agricultural programmes on a large scale.

We have been working with Yaajeende since 2014 to grow a key part of the programme and develop it as a social enterprise that will generate its own income. The ultimate vision is to replicate the impact of CuliVert across Senegal and Africa, improving the health and financial livelihoods of millions.

Age UK Cheshire provides care and support services to elderly people including physical and mental health and be an active member of their community. This in turn empowers them to love later life. We worked with Age UK Cheshire to explore how their Men in Sheds programme could be scaled up.

Bikeworks is a London based non-profit social enterprise that uses cycling as a tool to tackle social and environmental challenges in the community. It aims to build a diverse cycling community, initiate capability of mechanical skills and supports businesses to be greener.

Groundswell is a nonprofit which works to tackle homelessness by working with homeless people and enable othem to take more control of their lives, have a greater influence on services, and therefore set a chain reaction of togetherness and opportunity. We worked with Groundswell to scale the impact of their Homeless Health Peer Advocacy Programme that partners former homeless with current homeless, to ensure health appointments are met.

From an organisation thought up and run from a bedroom by friends, Ikamva is now one of South Africa’s greatest success stories. In a country where only 70% students pass their final school exams and 24% achieve bachelor passes, ‘ikamvanites’ are surging ahead with 85% passing their final exams and 36% progressing to, and succeeding, at university.

Ikamva was a participant in a South African Scale Accelerator programme we delivered in conjunction with The Rockefeller Foundation, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Cape Town University and Franchising Plus.

Leonard Cheshire Disability is a nonprofit supporting disabled people in the UK and around the world to remain active members of society, fulfil their potential and establish their independence.  We specifically helped Leonard Cheshire to scale their CAN DO project: a volunteer programme for 16-35-year-olds across the UK.

Philani Child Health and Nutrition has a vision for a South Africa in which pregnancy is safe and every child can grow up healthy and well-nourished to fulfill his or her physical and mental potential. By recruiting ‘Mentor Mothers’ who have successfully raised healthy children themselves and supporting them to help other mothers to do the same, Philani are already changing the life chances of thousands of children in South Africa.

Philani was a participant in a South African Scale Accelerator programme we delivered in conjunction with The Rockefeller Foundation, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Cape Town University and Franchising Plus.

The Reader is an award winning UK social enterprise working to connecting people with great literature through shared reading. Furthermore, it pioneers the use of shared reading to improve well-being, reduce social isolation and build resilience across diverse communities.

RECLAIM is a social change organisation that challenges the homogeneity that exists in the leadership profiles across UK society and supports youths and the working class people.

Relate offers counselling and relationship services, helps to transcend barriers, alleviate the struggles people may face with loved ones with the outcome of vitalising these relationships, enabling them to thrive. Services for every type of relationship nationwide from marriage, LGBT, divorce and parenting.

Staying Put is a UK nonprofit which offers a range of services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse and aims to empower them to safely remain in their own home and community.

Safer Places is a nonprofit which provides a comprehensive range of services to adults and children affected by domestic and sexual abuse, not only offering safe accommodation (West Essex, Mid Essex, Hertfordshire and Southend) but helping victims to overcome these experiences and build a better future for themselves.

Silulo Ulutho Technologies have a social mission centred on bridging the digital divide through providing ICT services that are geographically and economically accessible. The organisation already have twenty six branches located in deprived areas of the Eastern and Western Capes of South Africa. Each café can serve 200-300 clients a day and Silulo have already trained over 12,000 students.

Silulo Ulutho Technologies was a participant in a South African Scale Accelerator programme we delivered in conjunction with The Rockefeller Foundation, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Cape Town University and Franchising Plus.

Vi-ability, based in North Wales, is a social enterprise working with young adults to transform struggling community sports clubs into viable, thriving businesses and hubs, using this as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and engaging youths into local communities. It provides opportunities to develop skills by offering training, work experience and qualifications in commercial sports management.

U-turn is leading the way in South Africa in addressing the root causes of homelessness. U-turn have developed a holistic model which addresses the motivational, skills and employment needs of its beneficiaries to take them on a journey from the soup kitchen to full-time regular employment and reconnecting with families and past lives.

U-Turn was a participant in a South African Scale Accelerator programme we delivered in conjunction with The Rockefeller Foundation, The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Cape Town University and Franchising Plus.

Impact Hub is a global network of people, places and programs that inspire, connect and enable impact. Impact Hubs offer a collaborative and supportive working environment, each tailored to help materialise people's visions for a better world. They are present in over 16 cities including London, Vienna & Singapore. We partner with Impact Hubs to deliver ‘how to’ scaling workshops to members.

Numbers for Good dedicate themselves to improving lives and the planet through delving across various sectors e.g. education, criminal justice by creating financial solutions that allow organisations to fund social and environmental projects. They also connect investors with opportunities for sustainable financial and social returns. We partner with Numbers for Good to co-deliver a number of projects.

The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) empowers and unifies people from all backgrounds to create positive social change through tackling urgent issues like poverty, inequality and more. They also run courses for social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and charity leaders that equip them with the tools needed for lasting change. We helped to develop SSE’s Social Franchising and Replication training programme and also partnered with SSE to deliver the our first UK Scale Accelerator programme, alongside The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP).

The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business is a catalyst for social impact and dialogue, searching for new solutions for emerging markets in Africa. A leading academic centre,  in collaboration with the GSB, it has integrated social innovation into the business school curriculum, established a wide community of practitioners and awarded over R6-million in scholarships to students from across Africa. We were funded by The Rockefeller Foundation to create the first social franchise accelerator in South Africa. To do so we partnered with the Bertha Centre and Franchising Plus to support four high profile organisations scale up including Ikamva Youth, Philani Child Health and Nutrition, U-Turn Homeless Ministries and Silulo Technologies.

The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) is an advisory social business to central and local governments, leading foundations and charities and private sector organisations that supports their clients' work to tackle some of the major societal challenges. They take a proactive and citizen-centred design approach to drive cross-sector engagement to deliver transformational change and enable clients to secure economic and social value. We partnered with TSIP to deliver the first UK Scale Accelerator programme alongside the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE).

Bond is a leading UK membership body for over 450 civil society organisations working in international development, providing support through funding, research, training and other services. Members are supported to eradicate social issues like poverty, inequality and injustice  We are a member of BOND.

The Skoll Foundation seeks to accelerate entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems by uniting social entrepreneurs with essential partners in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage, and large-scale social change.

At the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship delegates represent nearly 65 countries and participate in a range of interactive events in which they can openly share, collaborate, innovate, and, ultimately, advance social entrepreneurship. We attend each year, have presented at past events and are part of the wider Skoll community.

An initiative of the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a global network of organisations, of which we are part of, that propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. ANDE members provide critical financial, educational, and business support services to small and growing businesses (SGBs) based on the conviction that SGBs will create jobs, stimulate long-term economic growth, and produce environmental and social benefits.