Interested and passionate applicants are invited to apply for the Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award or nominate a social entrepreneur.
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unpararelled platforms at the regional and global level to highlight and advance leading models of sustainable social innovation. It identifies a select community of social entrepreneurs and engages it in shaping global, regional and industry agendas that improve the state of the world in close collaboration with the other stakeholders of the World Economic Forum.
WORTH
- Selected winners will be included in the Schwab Foundation network of the social etrepreneurs. This includes access to a peer network of social entrepreneurs, special benefits such as pro-bono consulting services and scholarships to executive education courses at world-class institutions such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University and INSEAD
- The winners will be invited to the regional meetings of the World Economic Forum which are relevant to their work.
- They are highlighted as leading social entrepreneurs in a plenary session with heads of states and /or corporate leaders.
- Excellent finalists or winners under 40 will also be nominated to the Young Global Leaders Network of the World Economic Forum.
- World–class social entrepreneurs will be invited to join the global social entrepreneur community, which includes the possibility to be invited to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meetings in Davos and to contribute to the Global Agenda Councils of the Forum.
ELIGIBILITY
The Global Selection is open to all organizations Africa among others.
DEADLINE: 15th July, 2014
To apply and for more information visit here
