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Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Thu, February 2, 2012
Editor's note: This post was written by Rob Wilson, Entrepreneur in Residence at Ashoka U.K.
As a young social entrepreneur, I am hugely excited to say that Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream company whose philosophy is about giving back to the community, is launching a competition with Ashoka to...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Thu, February 2, 2012
Here’s your chance to help change the way colleges and universities change the world. Join Ashoka U on February 7, 2012, for a #SocEntChat about Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education — a discussion about the most cutting-edge initiatives in the higher ed field and the...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Tue, January 31, 2012
Earlier this week, reports surfaced about an 11-year-old boy with autism, who was beaten up by a fellow student while waiting at the bus stop. The event was filmed on a student’s cell phone, as his peers egged on his attacker, and subsequently uploaded to Facebook.
It later emerged...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Mon, January 30, 2012
Middlebury College will be giving away a grant for every day of the year—in amounts ranging from $200 to $10,000—to support social entrepreneurship as it launches of its new Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Middlebury, the private liberal arts college nestled in Vermont’s Champlain Valley, was...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Mon, January 30, 2012
There is nothing more powerful than pattern-changing ideas in the hands of leading social entrepreneurs (as Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton reminds us). The greatest challenge in today’s rapidly changing world is figuring out how to scale-up these good ideas.
To discover disruptive innovations with great...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Thu, January 26, 2012
Ashoka Senior Fellow Dr. Sakena Yacoobi has been working to provide Afghans with basic human rights in the area of health care in a country torn apart by war for the better part of two decades. Since she founded The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) in 1996, the organization has touched the lives...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Wed, January 25, 2012
Editor's note: This post was written by Esha Chhabra, writer, columnist, social entrepreneur, and Change inSight contributor. When famine strikes, as it did last year in Somalia, international agencies begin asking for funds to feed starving and malnourished people. But where does the...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Tue, January 24, 2012
An interview with Jane Turner and Benhür Oral of Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Editor's note: This post was written by Brian McCollow, ASU student and member of the Ashoka U Live team.
If you think social entrepreneurship has to be taught as a stand-alone subject, you haven’t met Jane...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Tue, January 24, 2012
The Global Journal, a print and online publication covering the global issues and players shaping governance today, just released a list of the world’s best non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The first international ranking of its kind, the Journal’s list recognizes NGOs as significant agents...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Fri, January 20, 2012
Empathy. em·pa·thy [em-puh-thee]
It’s a beautiful word, derived from the suffix -em (meaning “to make into, to put into, to get into”) and -pathy (meaning “suffering”).
What I consider especially beautiful about this word is that, unlike “sympathy” (which translates literally to...
Submitted by Ashoka 30th Birthday on Tue, January 17, 2012
This story was submitted to the Ashoka 30th Birthday Card by Jon McPhedran Waitzer, who recently left Ashoka after two years of working to build the Ashoka Globalizer initiative.Given that my time at Ashoka has shaped my own narrative in profound ways, I feel like this little birthday card might be...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Wed, January 11, 2012
Editor's note: This post was written by Amy Holiday, senior at Tulane University and member of the Ashoka U Live Team
This is the first of a series of posts featuring Exchange participants discussing “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education.” This week we feature Laura White, a...
Submitted by Ashoka 30th Birthday on Wed, January 11, 2012
This story was submitted to the Ashoka 30th Birthday Card by 'Gbenga Sesan, founder of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, and an Ashoka Fellow from Nigeria since 2008. Nigeria has a reputation globally. In spite of its numerous resources - human, natural, etc - the world knows the story of...
Submitted by John Converse Townsend on Tue, January 10, 2012
This is your last chance to apply for the Ashoka U Exchange! The annual global gathering, hosted by Ashoka U and Arizona State University, will bring together cutting-edge innovators from higher education to transform the educational experience into a world-changing experience...
Submitted by Ashoka 30th Birthday on Mon, January 9, 2012
This story was submitted to the Ashoka 30th Birthday Card by Paula Cardenau, one of Ashoka's senior staff members in Latin America, who is also spearheading Ashoka's Social Business Initiative. Paula initially wrote this letter as an email to the Fellows and staff in Latin America on the occasion...
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