The Brisbane hosts of the 2022 Social Enterprise World Forum aim to attract 2,500 in-person visitors plus another 100,000 online at global event next September.
In spite of the challenges of organising a global event during a pandemic, the 2021 Social Enterprise World Forum attracted more than 3,000 participants and is hailed as a success by organisers.
At the Social Enterprise World Forum 2021, Doughnut Economics Action Lab’s Erinch Sahan urges the social enterprise movement to stop seeing itself as existing on the margins.
“We’re all neurally diverse, some of us just stand out more,” says Auticon's Garth Johnson – who's showing that hiring people on the autism spectrum is good for business. Now, he just needs to convince more employers of the “autism advantage”.
Global social enterprise movement plans to deliver statement to 2021 UN Climate Change Conference emphasising its solutions to climate change, following discussions at Social Enterprise World Forum Policy Forum this week.
Covid-19 forced last year’s Social Enterprise World Forum – one of the biggest global gatherings for social entrepreneurs – entirely online. But SEWF founder Gerry Higgins says there's still hope for some face-to-face gatherings this year.
Although this year's Social Enterprise World Forum was online-only, it didn't stop the delegates making the most of the musical finale with disco-funk legend and philanthropist Nile Rodgers. The wrap film shows the highlights.
Throwing money at a problem won't work – instead you need to invest in young people who are solving their own communities’ challenges, said disco-funk guitarist Nile Rodgers in the final session of the Social Enterprise World Forum.
