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Prizes

Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards

Status

Usually opens in March and April and May

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
Not published

No cash prize. Awardees receive multi-year membership of the World Economic Forum communities and access to Davos and other WEF platforms.

Funder

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (World Economic Forum)

private · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — Annual nomination and application cycle, historically opening in the spring with awardees announced ahead of the WEF Annual Meeting

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Established social enterprises with demonstrated impact at scale. For-profit, nonprofit and hybrid models are eligible.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.schwabfound.org/awards/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.schwabfound.org

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