Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2023
Nilus Founder & CEO Ady Beitler has been awarded as a Social Innovator of the Year 2023 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at World Economic Forum.
“Al Nilus we are effectivly aliviating hunger, by lowering the cost of access to healthy food and groceries for low income people who live in food desserts. We do it by developing techonology that allows us to combine purchase orders of many families at the same time in one community,” explained Ady Beitler.
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship announced today 16 awardees for social innovation in 2023 including a list of outstanding founders and chief executive officers, multinational and regional business leaders, government leaders and recognized experts selected in recognition of their innovative approach and potential for global
impact.
The world is at a critical juncture as economies and livelihoods are battered by multiple overlapping crises, from war in Ukraine to climate change and the fallout of COVID-19. Yet again, it is the most vulnerable populations that are being hit the hardest. Better ways to tackle exclusion, inequality and ongoing environmental damage are urgently needed to restore trust and rebuild societal systems.
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship’s 16 award winning organizations for social innovation in 2023 represent a beacon of hope in these difficult times. By providing practical and scalable solutions to deep-rooted problems, they are demonstrating that change is possible, and they are achieving remarkable transformations through innovative cooperation.
Their work is providing a lifeline for those most at risk from traumatic disruption in today’s fragmented world — especially young people, women, and minority groups.
“The Social Innovators of the Year 2023 represent a generation of social and environmental change leaders who demonstrate that innovative models of cooperation and action across sectors are critical to making progress on the complex challenges we face,” said Hilde Schwab, Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Accelerating models of social innovation
This year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting marks the 25th anniversary of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. In 1998 Hilde Schwab, together with her husband Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, created the foundation to support new models for social change, combining values and dedication with the best business principles to create a more just, sustainable and equitable world.
Today, the foundation has a thriving community of over 450 global social entrepreneurs that has impacted the lives of nearly 1 billion people in 190 countries. The entrepreneurs offer access to healthcare, education, housing, finance, digital skills and advocacy networks resulting in job creation economic opportunity, improved health and stability.
Because they set explicit social objectives and their operations are underpinned by the principles of equity and justice, they can tackle intractable issues that are overlooked by mainstream capitalism. Their model of inclusive governance — involving bottom-up input from groups who face barriers because of gender, race, ability or economic class — gives them an agility that stands in marked contrast to the “helicopter” approach of many of today’s large institutions and companies.
“Complex problems cannot be tackled by single organizations, and this year’s Schwab Foundation awardees show new models of collaborating across sectors using innovative technology, human networks and shared resources and knowledge. Many social innovators have a long history of working in collaboration with others. The ambition now is in creating systemic change through collective efforts,” said François Bonnici, Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
About Nilus
Nilus is a techonolgy company incubated in the Harvard Innovation Labs. It has delivered over 35000 times in food desserts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mexico City and now is expanding into Peru in association with the United Nations World Food Programme.
They are effectively lowering the cost of access to healthy food for low income peolple between 25–30%, they have saved the environment over 6500 tons of Co2 equivalent because they rescue food that is at risk of being wasted. and accessed a population of over half a million people over the 3 years that they have been operating.
More information: https://www.nilus.co/en-US
