SE Forum

A team announcement, a big welcome and strong optimism

It’s with sadness but also strong optimism that we’re writing this month’s letter. We are saying goodbye to Nicklas who is stepping down as the Executive Director of SE Forum due to personal circumstances. However, we’re also saying welcome to Thomas Kanestad as our new Interim Executive Director. Thomas comes with highly relevant experience from…

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Nicklas Wallberg SE Forum

Board members, insights and a fun travel companion

April is the month for Annual Meetings. This year was particularly interesting as we welcomed four new board members to SE Forum, all with strong experience spanning corporate law to the Sustainable Development Goals. Combined with the Swedish Government’s new strategy for the social entrepreneurship sector, it’s been a motivating month.   This new line-up…

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Nicklas Wallberg SE Forum

March brought us 16 Fellows, Joe Biden and a Swedish super diplomat

March marked a new adventure for SE Forum where we’ve teamed up with the leading US NGO Seeds of Peace delivering a unique fellowship aimed at using the power of social entrepreneurship and innovation to solve conflict. The crescendo, yet only the beginning of the partnership journey, was an engaging evening where the Swedish super…

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Nicklas Wallberg SE Forum

February was filled with discussions and preparations (and lots of snow!)

February has been an intense month for us. Usually the start of the year can have less of an urgency attached to it, but this year it’s been different. We’ve looked at the Swedish ecosystem for social entrepreneurs and next week we’ll kick off a partnership we’ve been working on for a long time with…

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SE Forum SpellAfrica

Fighting a dark month with African sunshine and plans for the year ahead

January in Sweden is a dark month, and this year was no exception. Therefore, it was suiting that our colleagues Tove and Svitlana went to sunny Nigeria to follow up on our alumni at just that time. The power of Vitamin D is not to be underestimated. Us who stayed in Sweden, sun-less, focused on…

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Zoom out 2017 and zoom in 2018

Sometimes you need to zoom out in order to zoom in. That’s what I’ll do in this 2018’s first ED letter in an effort to share reflections from our international work and how that is influencing our strategies moving forward in a national, international and internal way. Ready? Here we go. International reflections I’ve had…

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Gaining momentum and growing the social entrepreneurship ecosystem

We’re almost at the end of 2017 and can look back at a great year where we have, amongst other things, been putting energy into a deeper understanding of the Swedish social entrepreneurship ecosystem. Researching, writing and analysing how to play a part of a systematic change where the number of financially sustainable social enterprises…

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Athena Empowers SE Forum Malaysia

October – a humbling and exciting experience

This month has focused on the understanding of the context of the sector we operate in and preparing for things to come. We’ve travelled to Malaysia, visited social entrepreneurs, researched the Swedish sector and had visitors from afar places like Mexico. In Malaysia, our colleague Fiona presented our work and how entrepreneurs are making a difference in…

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Nicklas Wallberg SE Forum accelerator

A month of action, reflection and future thinking

Wow, what a month! We’ve had delegations from Latvia and Belarus here to examine social innovation in Sweden, and we’ve also welcomed a group of young leaders from South Asia to discuss social entrepreneurship and how we see positive change happening in the world. Lastly, and certainly most intense, has been the final part of…

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Nicklas Wallberg Unleash mentor

In the name of good business and the SDGs

September is when Sweden is back at work at full tilt after the summer break. The focus is intense and I like the anticipation of opportunities and ideas it brings. The same goes for us at SE Forum where our focus currently is on the final part of the SE Outreach Accelerator program. When I…

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