ChangemakerXchange - Global community of young social innovators

Highlights

Changemakers for Democracy
in 2024

This 12-month Fellowship will support up to 15 Europe-based practitioners and representatives of innovations, movements and collectives working on democratic renewal and new economic paradigms.

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Changemakers for the Planet
at COP28

Thanks to the support of our program partners at Apple and SAP, we have provided stipends for changemaker participants from the Changemakers for the Planet programme to ensure there are no financial barriers to their attendance at COP28. Additionally, we connect them to the local ecosystem and offer platforms to showcase their impactful work and stories.

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Rise Challenge
2023 - 2024

This programme provides support for promising young people ages 15-17, including need-based scholarships, mentorship, networking, access to career development opportunities, and the potential for additional funding as Rise Global Winners work toward solving humanity’s most pressing problems.

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What we do

Changemakers

At the heart of ChangemakerXchange is a community of 1000 changemakers from across the world working on a vast range of social and environmental issues. They join the community via 5-day summits which foster lasting connections, nurture wellbeing, and enable peer-learning and meaningful collaborations. We then provide members with ongoing activities, so that they may create, sustain and scale their positive

Facilitators for Change

We believe that great facilitation is like software for driving collaborative social change. We trained over 60 of our community members and 200 leaders from global organisations in transformative and participatory facilitation so they can design and run programs for groups of any size and create truly empowering

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The Possibilists

We are also a convening platform for the social innovation ecosystem. The Possibilists is a scientific research effort and a global alliance to explore the lives, impact and needs of young changemakers. It also runs collective action programs to accelerate solutions that improve the conditions for changemaking. Because where others see competition, we see

Testimonials

It’s a magical and transformative experience that helped me sharpen the impact of my venture and has influenced me positively in terms of spirit and wellbeing.

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Maxie Matthiessen, Founder of FEMNA Health

CXC summit is a life transforming experience every leader should go through. I made friends, partners and learnt so much from brilliant minds of the network.