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We have over 100 financial and in-kind supporters and partners of our work. They range from individuals to corporations to trusts and foundations.

Who are some of our major non-financial partners?

The Young Foundation has a formal partnership with the Bartlett School at UCL, and both Geoff Mulgan and Peter Hall are visiting professors at both UCL and LSE. The Young Foundation also runs an annual prize for young academics with the ESRC and regularly holds lectures at QMW, LSE and UCL. We also have relationships with ONS, LSE, Oxford, Harvard, and Cambridge.

For more information please contact Fancy Sinantha, Development Manager, on fancy.sinantha@youngfoundation.org or call 020 8980 6263.

What about partners of the Social Innovation eXchange (SIX) -- a network set up to help build the emerging field of social innovation.

SIX is governed by a steering group of 9 organisations active in social innovation. All organisations represent different fields, sectors and regions. SIX was instigated and is overseen by the Young Foundation, where the secretariat is based.

Chair - Diogo Vasconcelos, Portugal - Former Government Minister, now with Cisco

Members - The Young Foundation, UK; School for Social Entrepreneurs, UK; Australian Social Innovation Exchange, Australia and New Zealand; Business Innovation Brokers, Spain; MIK Co-op., Spain; Lien Foundation, Singapore; Sitawi, Brazil; Phillips Design, Holland; DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability), Italy.

SIX has over 400 members, including Centre for Social Innovation, Canada; Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna; Hope Institute, Korea; Euclid Network, Europe, Fuping Institute of Development, China; Monitor Institute, USA; Sustainable Everyday Project, Italy; Tallberg Foundation, Sweden; and many others.

SIX funders include the Macquarie Group Foundation, Philips Design, Cisco, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

For more information on SIX, please contact Louise Pulford, Social Innovation Exchange Co-ordinator.