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SIX Summer School 2019

Capacity Building

SIX Summer School 2019

Do you want to spend your summer with a community of like-minded, purpose-driven young leaders? Are you passionate about creating positive social ch…

Future trends for innovative cities

Innovative cities

Future trends for innovative cities

One of the reasons why I decided to run for Mayor was to pursue social innovation. Seoul has a population of 10 million, it’s a big metropolitan c…

Future-fit philanthropy: why philanthropic organisations will need foresight to leave lasting legacies of change

Future-fit philanthropy: why philanthropic organisations will need foresight to leave lasting legacies of change

All philanthropic organisations exist to change the world, or at least a part of it. They are distinguished by their level of ambition – and by th…

16 April 2019Louise Pulford & Cat Tully

Social Labs: enabling citizens to co-create and co-design innovations

Innovative cities

Social Labs: enabling citizens to co-create and co-design innovations

As cities grow in size and significance, they can become sites of complex social problems – but also hubs for exploring possible solutions. While…

11 January 2019Ada Wong

For a Fairer, More Inclusive Europe, Sign the #SIDeclaration

For a Fairer, More Inclusive Europe, Sign the #SIDeclaration

EU policymakers are negotiating Europe’s next long-term budget. Sign the #SIDeclaration today to tell them that Europe needs innovation to benefit…

17 October 2018Sophie Reynolds and Madeleine Gabriel (Nesta)

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Upcoming events

SIX Funders Node Retreat: Risk, legitimacy and philanthropy

12 — 15 September 2019

SIX Funders Retreat Node retreat: Social cohesion and the role for philanthropy

17 — 20 September 2019

Weekly round up - building a Green New Deal movement, down and out in Paris & more!

Reading Recommendations

Weekly round up - building a Green New Deal movement, down and out in Paris & more!

Each week, the SIX team will be sharing their favourite pieces of reading. The content will be organised thematically, and each piece will tie to wo…

Challenges of Social Innovation in Brazil

Scaling Innovation

Challenges of Social Innovation in Brazil

Fábio Deboni is the Executive Manager at the Sabin Institute. He currently is a co-manager of the Social Enterprise Theme Network of GIFE (Group of…

16 May 2019Fabio Deboni

Breakfast roundtable on future-fit philanthropy: summary of insights

Breakfast roundtable on future-fit philanthropy: summary of insights

Philanthropic foundations have traditionally given relatively little emphasis to foresight, but if they want to support untested or ‘frontier’ a…

Cities for the imagination

Innovative Cities

Cities for the imagination

As cities grow in size and significance, they can become sites of complex social problems – but also hubs for exploring possible solutions. While…

30 April 2019Gabriella Gomez-Mont

Weekly round-up- the Green New Deal, Airbnb invasion of Barcelona, UK social care & more!

Reading recommendation

Weekly round-up- the Green New Deal, Airbnb invasion of Barcelona, UK social care & more!

Each week, the SIX team will be sharing their favourite pieces of reading. The content will be organised thematically, and each piece will tie to wo…