About
Social innovation creates new solutions (products, services, markets, models, processes) for a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous society by addressing social and environmental needs more efficiently and effectively than current policies and businesses.
The Center for Social Innovation develops and shares research, learning content, and educational programs that help leaders in business, government, and civil society navigate the challenges of initiating and implementing social innovation. Through these core activities, we convene entrepreneurs, executives, investors, philanthropists, researchers, and other change agents to accelerate the speed, scale, and effectiveness of social innovations across the spectrum of capital that address the key social and environmental challenges of our time.
Our focus is on impact management: how asset owners (investors, banks, entrepreneurs, corporates, or family offices) articulate their impact objectives, what problems they want to solve, who they want to reach, where they want to invest, and what risks they want to take.
At the Center for Social Innovation we:
Our programs
Driving Innovation Finance for Impact
The Driving Innovative Finance for Humanitarian Impact program builds organizational capability to lead innovative finance initiatives in the humanitarian and development space. Participants identify an advanced high-impact humanitarian and/or development challenge and gain all the necessary tools and skills to further their project successfully and co-create an innovative finance solution to serve those most in need.