Transforming through Trust

The report highlights how social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs are tackling systemic inequalities and environmental challenges, reporting a direct positive impact on 100 million people from the 2019-2022 cohorts.

• The 77 social innovators awarded between 2019 and 2022 have directly impacted an additional 100 million people, contributing to a cumulative total of 722 million lives improved by the Schwab Foundation's community over two decades.
• The impact of the 2019-2022 awardees is distributed across several key areas, with the highest numbers in improved healthcare and wellness (40,931,000) and improved child healthcare (18,050,000), followed by improved financial inclusion (15,356,258).
• Social innovators are increasingly utilizing technology to scale their impact; 70% of awardees use mobile technology for interventions, while artificial intelligence (AI) is used by 43% of those seeking to affect policy change.
• The report identifies a shift toward 'systems work,' which moves beyond delivering individual products to influencing resource flows, mindsets, and power dynamics across multiple actors in a system.
• Corporate Social Intrapreneurs act as internal agents of change within large companies to integrate social impact into core business models, such as the N7 program at Nike which has engaged 600,000 young people in 268 communities in the US and Canada.
• Public Social Intrapreneurs leverage policy and regulation to support the social innovation ecosystem, exemplified by the European Commission's Social Economy Action Plan which includes a €1 billion fund.
• The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need for collective action, leading to the formation of coalitions such as the COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs and the Migrants Resilience Collaborative.
• The report notes that while new inclusive funding models are emerging, overall funding models for social innovation are still lagging behind other sectors.

APA

World Economic Forum (2022). Transforming through Trust. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Transforming_through_Trust_2022.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Transforming through Trust. 2022. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Transforming_through_Trust_2022.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2022transforming, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Transforming through Trust}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2022}, month = jan, url = {https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Transforming_through_Trust_2022.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }