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Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Mon, April 11, 2011
Ashoka’s Youth Venture is thrilled to announce the launch of Technology for a Better World, a campaign sponsored by Best Buy’s Children Foundation identify and support fifty teams of young people age 13 to 18 in the United States in using technology...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Mon, April 4, 2011
Full Information Citizenship
This week in Miami, next week… the world!Try to imagine a world in which everyone has access to high-quality information – and is empowered to act on that information toward effective participation and changemaking....
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Fri, April 1, 2011
The Young Champions of Maternal Health have continued to contribute blogs on their progress implementing projects with Ashoka Fellows around the world. This month, the Young Champions share their insights into topics as diverse as making the most...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Fri, April 1, 2011
The final day of the Ashoka Globalizer Summit was a chance for participants to combine the conceptual ideas they learned on Day 1 (using open source and smart networks as strategies to scale) with the practical insights they gained from Day 2...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Sun, March 27, 2011
The key word(s) for Day 2 of the Globalizer Summit was “Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur.” The Fellows engaged in intimate one-on-one conversations with a select group of business leaders and experts to refine their strategies for scaling. Each...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Sat, March 26, 2011
The Globalizer Summit got off to a great start yesterday, with 80 participants focused on scaling social impact coming together to help create the architecture for the rapid spread of successful social solutions. We focused especially on new...
Submitted by Erin Fornoff on Mon, March 21, 2011
Mike Feerick, the Galway-based founder and CEO of ALISON – hailed as the next global leader in online interactive education will join leading business figures from the around the world next week at an event aimed at matching social innovations with...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Fri, March 18, 2011
The email below was recently sent to us by Ashoka Fellow Jerry White in celebration of landmark landmine legislation that was just passed in Israel. Jerry, like many of his Ashoka Fellow colleagues around the world, is actively changing policy...
Submitted by on Fri, March 18, 2011
After 18 months of blogging at the intersection of peace and social innovation, and leading a field-wide initiative on this subject, Ashoka Peace is excited to announce a new partnership with Peace Direct and its Insight on Conflict...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Tue, March 15, 2011
Did you know that Sargent Shriver, the dynamic force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, provided thought leadership for the creation of Ashoka as a member of the Ashoka Council? In fact, there have been many powerful points of intersection...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Mon, March 14, 2011
Entrepreneurs are different, but do they think differently than the rest of us?
EntrepreneursAs reported in Inc., a recent study by Saras Sarasvathy et al. compared the thought processes of corporate CEO’s and entrepreneurs. Asked to respond to...
Submitted by News & Knowledge on Mon, March 14, 2011
We're incredibly proud to announce our third cohort of News & Knowledge Fellows: 11 emerging media leaders from as many countries pursuing innovations that promise to powerfully inform, connect, and engage people. This brings to 30 the number of...
Submitted by News & Knowledge on Mon, March 14, 2011
Submitted on Mon, March 14, 2011
We're incredibly proud to announce our third cohort of News & Knowledge Fellows: 11 emerging media leaders from as many countries pursuing innovations that promise to powerfully inform, connect, and engage...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Thu, March 10, 2011
Ashoka is now live on eBay’s ground-breaking non-profit fundraising platform: eBay Giving Works. Have an old baseball mitt you’re about to sell? Looking for that perfect 1980’s lunch-box? Help make the vision of an Everyone A Changemaker™ world a...
Submitted by Erin Fornoff on Wed, March 9, 2011
Join Danish social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow Thorkil Sonne this Monday, 14th March, at 7pm in the Neill Hoey Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
Thorkil Sonne is the founder of Specialisterne and The Specialist People Foundation. Through these...
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