Camelback Ventures

Camelback Ventures aims to diversify social innovation, by giving underrepresented, early-stage entrepreneurs access to the tools they need to be successful. Camelback was built with the notion that genius is equally distributed across communities, but access to funding and start-up mentoring is often limited in communities of color and with women. Camelback provides entrepreneurs with greater access to resources.

 Camelback Ventures awards its fellows with 1:1 coaching, capital (start up funding, up to $40,000) and access to investors and networks (connections). Camelback Fellows, most of whom identify as people of color and/ or female, work in communities across the country.  

Camelback fellows have built social organizations that have impacted the lives of tens of thousands of young people across the country. Camelback fellows have built STEM-based social mobile games, a charter school network in New Orleans, a mobile app to help recognize strong academic performance, and a platform to help universities track and develop at risk scholarship students. Camelback Fellows have collectively gone on to raise over $14 million in funding. For three years in a row, 3 or more Camelback Fellows have been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30. 

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Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Born out of the World Economic Forum, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the regional and global level to highlight and advance leading models of sustainable social innovation. 

The Schwab Foundation identifies and selects the world’s leading community of social innovators – entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs – and engages them in shaping global, regional and industry agendas that improve the state of the world in close collaboration with other leaders in business and government. 

The Schwab Foundation has a community of 400 social innovators who are transforming society and making the world a better place for us all.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum was established in 1971 as a non-profit, impartial, independent international institution for public-private cooperation. 

The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It connects communities of leaders around global issues through high-level meetings, research, initiatives and digital networks. 

Activities are shaped by a unique institutional culture founded on the stakeholder theory, which asserts that an organization is accountable to all parts of society. The institution carefully blends and balances the best of many kinds of organizations, from both the public and private sectors, international organizations and academic institutions.

Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does while bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive changes to propel progress.

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Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. 

To achieve this mission, they give thousands of grants annually to groups and individuals in over 120 countries that work on promoting tolerance, transparency, and open debate. The Open Society Foundations also engage in strategic human rights litigation and impact investing, while incubating new ideas and engaging directly with governments and policymakers through advocacy to advance positive change.  

The Open Society Foundations seek to shape public policies that assure greater political, legal, and economic fairness and safeguard fundamental rights. They build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information while placing a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.

The Open Society Foundations were founded by George Soros, one of the world’s foremost philanthropists, who since 1984 has given away $32 billion of a personal fortune made in the financial markets. 

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Danone

Danone is a leading multi-local food and beverage company building on health-focused and fast-growing categories in 3 businesses: Essential Dairy & Plant-Based products, Waters and Specialized Nutrition. With its ‘One Planet. One Health’ frame of action, which considers the health of people and the planet as intimately interconnected, Danone aims to inspire healthier and more sustainable eating and drinking practices. To accelerate this food revolution and create superior, sustainable, profitable value for all its stakeholders, Danone has defined nine 2030 Goals, and paved the way as the first listed company to adopt the “Entreprise à Mission” status in France. 

With a purpose to bring health through food to as many people as possible, and corresponding social, societal and environmental objectives set out in its articles of association, Danone commits to operating in an efficient, responsible and inclusive manner, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. By 2025, Danone aims to become one of the first multinational companies to obtain B CorpTM certification. 

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Ashoka

Ashoka is an international citizen-sector organization whose mission is to build an Everyone a Changemaker World. 

An Everyone a Changemaker World is one that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and self-identify as a driver of change. 

Ashoka is the world’s leading community of over 3,500 social entrepreneurs. It champions the most important new social change ideas and supports the innovators behind them by helping them get started, grow, collaborate and reshape whole systems.

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Mathilde Lorenzi

Hearth Summit Lead at The Wellbeing Project

Madrid,
Spain

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Mathilde is French and lives in Madrid. She studied Business and Politics in Edhec Business School and in Science Po Paris University.

She started her career in marketing and communication before moving to politics, to being an entrepreneur and finally to become a conference organizer.

She is the author of two books, one related to it mylk, the Frozen Yogurt business she launched with her sister in Paris in 2010 (Frozen Yogurt; Marabout, 2013) and the second one related to Les Respirations, the conference dedicated to Air Quality that she created in Paris in 2014 and then ran in 2015 and 2016 (La bataille de l’air. Enjeux économiques de la qualite de l’air; Descartes & Cie, 2015).

She joined The Wellbeing Project in 2020 as Lead for The Wellbeing Summit for Social change. Together with her amazing team she created and produced the first edition of the summit which happenend in Bilbao in June 2022 and is now fully dedicated to organize the second one.

In her free time, Mathilde is the happy mother of three little kids, she loves art, travelling and horse-back riding.