Press & Media Kit

2010: MovingWorlds is Founded

Convinced that social enterprise represents the future of business, Co-Founders Mark and Derk formulated the beautiful question that would lead to the birth of MovingWorlds: What kind of support do social entrepreneurs on the ground really need to succeed? In 2010, MovingWorlds was officially registered as a Social Purpose Company, the Washington State equivalent of a "Benefit Corporation."

2014: Launch of Experteering Platform

After years of piloting, the MovingWorlds “Experteering” platform was launched to help social enterprises around the world connect with skilled professionals willing to volunteer their expertise. Since then, 1,800 projects have been completed in 122 countries, unleashing over $25 Million USD worth of pro-bono expertise.

2015+: Corporate Social Impact Programs Launch

As the social enterprise movement continued to grow, and the Experteering movement alongside it, multinational corporations asked us to help them scale their own corporate volunteering and social impact programs. We combined forces to build shared-value programs like Microsoft’s MySkills4Afrika, PayPal’s Nonprofit Experience Program, SAP’s Acceleration Collective, and more.

2017: Launch of MovingWorlds Institute Global Fellowship

To even better support our professional members, we launched the MovingWorlds Institute: a professional Global Fellowship that combines the learning of a certificate course, customized support of a career coach, real-world exposure of a consulting project, and global connections of a prestigious alumni network into a single 6-month program. Since then, our Global Fellowship community has grown to include more than 300 professionals from over 55 countries.

2020: Launch of S-GRID Social Enterprise Revenue Accelerator

To help social enterprises survive the pandemic and thrive on the other side, in July 2020 we partnered with SAP to launch The Sustainable Growth of Revenues for International Development Program (SGRID) to help social enterprises to create sustainable revenue streams by partnering with the corporate sector and connecting into global value chains.

2022: Launch of TRANSFORM Support Hub

In 2022, MovingWorlds, SAP, TRANSFORM, and Unilever partnered to merge their respective programs (including S-GRID), and re-launch as the TRANSFORM Support Hub: a global platform that connects social enterprises with corporates, peers, impact investors, learning content, and a network of pro bono professionals to deliver market-based solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Press Releases

May 25, 2022

July 9, 2020

World Economic Forum, May 2022

Restarting America Podcast, November 2020

CSR Wire, July 2020

The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast, July 2020

The Guardian, May 2019

CSRWire, May 2018

Badcredit.org, May 2019

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MovingWorlds Contributions & Thought Leadership

Pioneers Post, October 2023

ESG Needs a Shared Language

Stanford Social Innovation Review, October 2022

NextBillion, September 2022

World Economic Forum, September 2022

Quotes from MovingWorlds, its Partners and Advisors on July 2020 S-GRID Launch

What makes this moment in time so pivotal is that inequities and environmental degradation tend to increase after recessions. By investing in social enterprises today, we can help them be ready to integrate into the post-COVID recovery to better distribute wealth while using regenerative business models to address the ongoing environmental crisis.

-Mark Horoszowski, CEO and Co-Founder of MovingWorlds, SPC

Over the last 9 years, we’ve seen how essential communities of practice are to individuals and organizations intent on scaling impact. With S-GRID, we can help build the capacity of employees behind the social enterprises that will push business to be more sustainable and equitable for years to come. The program will give participants access to a community where they can discuss complex problems and design solutions, ensuring their ideas are truly scalable and world-changing.

-Cole Hoover, Director of the MovingWorlds Institute

S-GRID is the first program of its kind to help social enterprises build the skills, know-how, and connections needed to participate in global supply chains, and in a way they can truly deliver social impact. With the socio-economic implications of COVID-19 hitting social enterprises across the world especially hard, SAP is doubling down on its long-standing commitment to accelerating the social enterprise sector through access to talent, technology and markets. SAP has a powerful platform to help the private sector put their money where their purpose is and scale the social enterprise sector. Corporations today spend trillions of dollars - 3 trillion on SAP Ariba’s platform alone - related to sourcing and distribution chains. Imagine the positive impact that could be made through procurement spend if just a few percent is directed towards social-first organizations.

-Alexandra van der Ploeg, Head of SAP Corporate Social Responsibility

As a start-up we have participated in many accelerators but we are particularly keen to apply for S-GRID. We are excited by the prospect of whole team training but especially the potential to form strategic corporate partnerships. Building meaningful connections in the corporate sphere is a challenge faced by all small enterprises. As such, we are looking forward to exploring how S-GRID is able to accelerate and foster these connections so we can focus on what we do best - providing water to those at the forefront of the water crisis.

-Louise Bleach, Business Development Manager, Desolenator

We're applying to S-GRID so we can make a bigger impact. It's the only program that offers any and every member of our team training and support so that we can scale our sales and operations to effectively partner with the corporate sector. S-GRID has the potential to save us time and costs so that we can focus on our mission of cleaning the oceans, while also building a sustainable economy.

-Pete Ceglinski, CEO, Seabin

This solves a huge problem for social enterprises to scale - we need more knowledge, experience, and resources. Not just to partner with the international companies that everybody knows, but more importantly, to connect with all the organizations across a company's network that are part of these global supply chains. If corporations want to create change on the ground, they need to find a local solution to partner with and support, and S-GRID helps them do that.

-Henri Nyakarundi, Founder and CEO, A.R.E.D.

In VillageCapital’s accelerator programs, we prioritize 1-1 meetings between social entrepreneurs and corporate leaders because social enterprises often have great products but lack access to decision-makers in their sector's distribution/value chain, making it harder to scale to world-changing impact. S-GRID is an important program that will help solve this problem: assist social entrepreneurs in building the social capital they need to connect to corporate value chains.

-Allie Burns, CEO, VillageCapital

The S-GRID program fundamentally shifts how social enterprises are thinking about scale beyond the enterprise itself. There's an opportunity to enable corporations who are already shifting from a shareholder to stakeholder-view of capitalism to reconceptualize their value chains to incorporate more local social enterprises that are committed to doing good. Now that's impact at scale!

-Nate Wong, Interim Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, Georgetown University

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