Echoing Green

"Being able to say, 'When I was 16, I was working on MIT's open-source software infrastructure,' that's a really great foot in the door." This back-to-school season, in addition to settling into their new classes and coursework, the Atlanta-area students

Echoing Green has selected eighteen of the world's most promising social entrepreneurs as its latest cohort of Fellows.

"It feels a little bit like political theater, 'We're doing something to save the children!' But what are you actually doing; how are you going to do it?" Although her full assessment is more nuanced, to 2025 Fellow Avriel Epps, the recent flurry of socia

"The world goes in cycles and circles, and there's not really a linear end. It just continues on." With Juneteenth this week-and in the coming weeks, the United States' 250th anniversary-Brittney Shelby Sessoms '25 is fittingly the first feature of our ne

The Echoing Green community was hard to miss at last month's 2026 Skoll World Forum (SWF). On April 21-24, the Skoll Foundation again gathered top social impact and innovation leaders in Oxford, England, where, over the course of the three-day event, more

Echoing Green has invested $475,000 across 11 organizations led by alumni of our Fellowship program, marking the ninth cycle of follow-on funding. This latest investment provides Fellows unrestricted capital as they further develop, scale, and break new g

"But this week, I was not alone," is how Fellow Dr. Maria Uloko '25, founder of VULVAi, described feeling at Echoing Green's 2026 All Fellows Convening (AFC), held February 9-12 in Mexico City. With past iterations hosted in cities like Accra, Ghana and M

This report highlights the 40 Finalists for the Echoing Green Fellowship, as well as insights about talent across the field of social innovation. From democratic backsliding to climate change, accelerating global issues pose daunting challenges for all of

Global issues such as democratic backsliding in the United States, climate change, and more pose daunting challenges for all of us. Yet, it's times like these when transformative leaders step up to do their best work. Adept at pushing the status quo, soci

"I think Echoing Green saw in a lot of us a tolerance for discomfort and ambiguity. We weren't attached to a specific solution-we were attached to staying with the problem, even when progress was slow, politically messy, or financially uncertain," says Dr