How did Doc Edge film festival triple its audience in the middle of a pandemic? EHF Fellows, Alex Lee, and Dan Shanan set a great example of how to flourish in the switch to digital.

EHF Fellow, Jase Te Patu, has developed a programme that helps Kiwi kids find balance and overcome difficult emotions.

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, more than 72 million people around the world are deaf, and the World Health Organisation’s data of 450 million people (5% of the global population) live with some degree of hearing loss. It is projected that by 2050 over 900 million people (or one in every ten people) will have some degree of hearing loss. At this stage, there is no ‘one size fits all solution’ to accessibility.

Hello Future, founded by EHF Fellow Charlie Grosso led a global youth design thinking hack-a-thon for teens and refugees, introducing them to systems level thinking, empowering them to generate and implement solutions of their own design to ensure that we can reshape the world towards equity and inclusion.

EHF Cohort 6 Fellow, Rob Vickery, is an entrepreneur-turned-investor who is working to invest in great people who are solving hard problems that matter.

Over the course of the last few decades, research shows that entrepreneurial women produce higher net income with a lower capital input cost than men, across the board.

Open Collective is making money a little easier for everyone by bridging the gap between funders and the unincorporated groups that are changing our world for the better.

Young people growing up in the poverty-stricken tea plantations of Sri Lanka face limited prospects for a brighter future. The Tea Leaf Trust, led by EHF Fellow, Tim Pare, is helping these young people imagine new possibilities.

EHF Fellow, Adrien Gheur, wants to invigorate NZ’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

EHF Fellow, Anne-Marie Brook, and her colleagues are rolling out a first-of-its-kind global human rights monitoring system to ensure countries around the world are held to account for how they treat people.

EHF Fellows Bernadette Casey and Peter Thompson are working with the textile industry collaboratively around the world on ensuring not only are textiles reused, but are sustainably created in the first place.

The Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) is close to realising its audacious goal of bringing together 500 high impact global entrepreneurs to catalyse New Zealand’s economy and entrepreneurial community.

Harmaan Madon has a vision he is putting into action to solve one of the oldest, most challenging, potentially impactful yet unsexy problems in human history.

EHF Fellow Roger Dennis responded to the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake with bold innovation to create the world’s first Sensing City. Now, as New Zealand rebuilds its economy post-COVID, Roger is once again paving the way with a vision for a New New Zealand.

Bex De Prospo joined EHF in Cohort 2 as a co-founder of an ambitious business called Anteater, aiming to mainstream low emission insect proteins in our diet, starting with high end restaurants.

EHF Fellow Mikko Perez is giving people in emerging markets access to financial services that can significantly improve their lives.