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The world of art needs more social enterprise, and the world of social enterprise needs more art. Ever since the World Economic Forum’s Cultural Leaders network and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship launched the Centred-Self<\/a> collaboration earlier this year<\/a>, it struck us that both fields have only just scratched the surface of how interacting with one other could lead world-changing breakthroughs.<\/p>\n

The Schwab Foundation’s community of leading social innovators and the Forum’s Cultural leaders’ network can serve as role models who are leveraging the power of creativity and storytelling to address the world’s greatest problems.<\/p>\n

Here are five initiatives from the Schwab Foundation community and the Forum’s Cultural Leaders network that showcase how arts and culture serve as a force for social change.<\/p>

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This is an excerpt from the article <\/em>How arts and culture can serve as a force for social change<\/a> <\/strong>by Pavitra Raja and Linda Peterhans.<\/em><\/p>\n

This article is a part of a special series on the connection between inner well-being and social change, in partnership with The Wellbeing Project<\/a>, Stanford Social Innovation Review<\/a>, Schwab Foundation<\/a> at the World Economic Forum<\/a>, and Skoll Foundation<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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