Partnering with the Bertha Centre for the program’s ongoing development and delivery are the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, and the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo. Frances Westley, Chair in Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo. The program was initiated and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, and the program’s unique design and pilot phase were lead by Dr. The program challenges traditional notions of social entrepreneurship by focusing on system entrepreneurship-the goal is not just to help systems improve and adapt, but to fundamentally alter the systems that create problems in the first place. The Rockefeller Foundation Global Fellowship Program on Social Innovation is designed to strengthen the capacity of leaders from the social or ecological sectors who are working to transform the systems we live in-political, economic, legal, educational, environmental, and cultural. The fellowship brings together 21 social innovators from around the world for four intensive learning modules over the course of a year. Partners & Alliances Partners & AlliancesĬAPE TOWN-The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business has joined an international partnership to convene the second annual Rockefeller Foundation Global Fellowship Program on Social Innovation. We are a philanthropic foundation that promotes the well being of humanity by finding and scaling solutions that advance opportunity and reverse the climate crisis.
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