Submitted by UMD Bloggers on Sun, 2009-03-01 20:56.
Over the past month, we have made great progress with both the Symposium, "A New Way of Doing Business" and "Transform Your World" a Film Festival for Social Good. In the eyes of the administration we are officially recognized as the student group "Terp Changemakers" and we are starting the wheels in motion on our curricular goals. The new Center for Social Value Creation will also be launching it's website March 2nd!
We'll link up to the website asap but click for more content on exactly what will be going on at "A New Way of Doing Business" March 26th.
Submitted by UMD Bloggers on Sat, 2008-12-27 14:01.
Our journey thus far on the University of Maryland College Park campus with the Changemaker Initiative, has felt like an extended Christmas Eve. Every moment since the "Incubator Weekend" has been in anticipation of what will come next. And although even the best laid plans sometimes falter, this spring should be like an extended Christmas Day.
Submitted by University Team on Tue, 2008-12-16 10:32.
Attention campus change agents! Want to give back to the world, but find yourself a little pressed for cash this season? In need of Christmas gift ideas? Or perhaps in light of the financial crisis, you've decided a Christmas "hello" will have to suffice. You're in luck; you can do all three. For $35, you can become an Ashoka member. In addition to regular communications from Ashoka, you'll get a one-year subscription to GOOD and 8 "Be the Change" postcards to send out to all the special changemakers in your life.
Submitted by JHU Bloggers on Sat, 2008-12-13 15:59.
Greetings from windy Baltimore! As the semester wraps up and students everywhere burrow deep into the library for some delightful studying sessions, the Hopkins Social Innovations Partnership (HOP-SIP) Team continues to move forward in its quest to transform JHU into a Changemaker Campus. Since our initial team gathering at the Ashoka Changemaker Incubator in October, there have been many developments at both the university and national level that have been a cause for excitement.
Submitted by University Team on Tue, 2008-12-09 18:48.
This past week, we hosted a workshop with Scott Sherman, the founder of the Transformative Action Institute, and his colleague, Shan, now finishing up his degree at UC-Santa Cruz. At its core, transformative action is about exposing injustice, and offering a better vision for the future: one that wins over adversaries and fosters meaningful collaboration.
Submitted by Cornell Bloggers on Mon, 2008-12-01 15:45.
It's been almost a month since the Ashoka Changemaker Incubator, and things back on campus are starting to take off! After the initial adjustment back to reality from our inspirational weekend at Camp Horizons, the Cornell Changemakers met with the extended group to reflect back on the weekend and plan our next steps. The one thing we vowed to each other during that first meeting was that we wouldn't let the fire that was created during The Incubator get put out by the daily grind of life back on campus.
