about EdelGive with SIX
Established In 2008, Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) has been at the forefront of the global social innovation field for over a decade. We focused on accelerating learning and exchange across borders and sectors, in order to help organisations respond more quickly and more effectively to the complex societal challenges we face.
SIX evolved into EdelGive with SIX in 2025. EdelGive with SIX is a new collaboration with a new view that is truly global. We are combining the strengths of a strongly rooted philanthropic organisation, with an agile global innovation network. The Global North has established a long history of impact research, infrastructure and organization capacity building and funding mechanisms. The Global South, with its rapidly growing population and diverse context, is home to dynamic innovation and firsthand experience with many of the world’s most pressing challenges and solutions. By combining these, alongside our organisational competencies, our aim is to create a more balanced and effective approach to global problem-solving.
team members
So Jung Rim
So Jung is the Chief Operating Officer at EdelGive with SIX. So Jung has led the transnational learning exchange in an EU project, The European Social Innovation Alliance, aimed at building social innovation competence centres across Europe. She has developed key partnerships with Seoul City for a decade and has led EdelGive with SIX’s work in creating networks of universities embedding social innovation in Southeast Asia and Latin America. She also curated EdelGive with SIX’s flagship events such as The Unusual Suspects Festival and SIX Wayfinder. She has developed and led capacity building programmes including the Global Social Innovation Academy and other social innovation learning exchange programmes at EdelGive with SIX.
Within the SI-Mission Facility So leads Work package 3 on developing and servicing the SI Advisory and Investors Network.
Carly Wickham
Carly Wickham is the Chief Executive Officer of EdelGive with SIX, where she leads the organisation’s mission to build a global ecosystem for social innovation.
With many years working across innovation ecosystems, Carly brings deep experience in building partnerships, designing programs at scale, and stewarding transformation. She co-founded The Giving Department, a philanthropy consultancy now in its fifteenth year, and previously served as Head of Innovation Programmes at Capital Enterprise. There, she supported over 2,000 founders to scale their organisations, with particular focus on underrepresented founders.
Prior to Capital Enterprise, Carly played a pivotal role in Challenge Works, an organisation managing £200m+ in innovative Challenge Prize funds, Carly also serves as a Non-Executive Director for Innovate UK Loans, with oversight of a £250m loan portfolio. Carly believes connected people are the solution to the world’s problems, but only when we create the right conditions for genuine collaboration across difference can we deliver systemic change.
The SI-Mission-Facility is funded by the European
Commission (EC) through the Horizon Europe Programme
with Grant Agreement 101216478.
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