Democracy

From powering coalitions to inspiring moral courage, love is a transformative force that belongs at the heart of philanthropy and impact. Throughout history, social change leaders have taught us that love is a crucial element for transformation. Join this session to hear from inspiring changemakers and innovators who center love in their leadership approach, and gain practical insights to infuse your own leadership with love—cultivating resilient and compassionate strategies for lasting social change.
Brianna Fruean
Activist
Pacific Climate Warriors
Christine Schuler Deschryver
DR Congo Director of V-DAY & Director, Co-Founder of City of Joy
Fernando Travesí
Executive Director
International Center for Transitional Justice
Tulaine Montgomery
CEO
New Profit, Inc.
About the Skoll World Forum
Each year, nearly 1,000 of the world’s most influential social entrepreneurs, key thought leaders, and strategic partners gather at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School to exchange ideas, solutions, and information. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

We need both changes in local land-use policy and increases in subsidies for low-income renters to respond to varying housing market conditions.

This policy brief highlights ways that a gender-responsive perspective can be fully incorporated into planning, policy design, and implementation models for education in emergencies (EiE) in Nigeria, so that governments…

The youth climate movement has been limited by a lack of systematic investment. Two young leaders examine ways philanthropy can support them.

The Biden administration’s focus on human rights as a foreign policy priority is a promising first step. And Biden’s chapter on gender equality in his foreign policy strategy sparks hope…

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we must lift up women as uniquely positioned to lead philanthropy in its efforts to strengthen democracy. This is strongly supported by…

Refugees from Ukraine could boost Europe’s economy, but countries receiving them will likely face significant costs in the short term.

Rural white voters have long enjoyed outsize power in American politics. They have inflated voting power in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House and the Electoral College. Although there is…

Society has a complicated relationship with adolescents. We want to protect them as children and yet launch them into adulthood. Adolescents face risks from testing out independence, navigating peer relationships,…

Comprehensive reparations are fundamental to realizing our highest democratic ideals.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread in the US, many immigrant families were reluctant to access safety net programs, including housing assistance. Fears around the expansion of both the public charge…

Many states exclude license-exempt home-based child care providers from the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which can leave millions of children in need vulnerable to increased food insecurity.