# Collective Social Innovation

Today’s most pressing challenges – rising inequality, environmental crises and social fragmentation – are too complex for any single organisation to solve alone. Collective social innovation offers a new way forward, bringing together diverse stakeholders to create systemic change.


## The Future of Innovation is Collective

This cover story from the Stanford Social Innovation Review's Summer 2025 issue explores how collective approaches are reshaping innovation. It reveals the unique values, structures, and practices that power successful collaborative efforts, offering essential insights for anyone working to address today's most urgent social issues.

[Read the article](https://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective-action-approach-social-innovation)


## The Future is Collective: Advancing Collective Social Innovation to Address Society’s Biggest Challenges

Developed by the Schwab Foundation in collaboration with our community of collective social innovators, this report explores how social innovation can unite diverse stakeholders for large-scale social change. It highlights the values, strategies and organizing models that enable multistakeholder collaborations to thrive. Through case studies – explored in greater depth in the companion report, The Future is Collective: Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation – it demonstrates how collective social innovators are rethinking collaboration amid global crises.

[Read the report](https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Future_is_Collective_Advancing_Collective_Social_Innovation_to_Address_Societys_Biggest_Challenges_2025.pdf)


## Articles on collective social innovation

Explore how organisations and individuals are coming together for a common cause.


### The future of innovation is collective but only if we reimagine how we work together

By S. D. Shibulal and François Bonnici

[Read](https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/09/the-future-of-innovation-is-collective-but-only-if-we-reimagine-how-we-work-together/)


### Bridging Divides: Rethinking Collaboration amid Global Crises

By François Bonnici

[Read](https://businessfightspoverty.org/bridging-divides-rethinking-collaboration-amid-global-crises/)


### Unleashing the power of collective social innovation to tackle complex issues around the world

By Sophia Otoo and Cynthia Rayner

[Read](https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/04/collective-social-innovation/)


### How to successfully orchestrate collective action

By Khushboo Awasthi, Tasso Azevedo and Danya Pastuszek

[Read](https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/05/successfully-orchestrate-collective-action/)


### Unified advocacy: The untapped elixir for advancing social change

By Khushboo Awasthi Kumari and Luv Kumar

[Read](https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/09/unified-advocacy-social-change/)