News@Ashoka - December 2003

Contents

Fellow Collaborations Jump 87 Percent

Global Academy Presses Social-Business Ventures

CNN, AOL, and Ashoka Encourage Social Entrepreneurship Across Latin America Through Regular TV and Web Features

Ashoka's Endowments Celebrate 20 Years of Positive Returns and Two Additions: the Diane Phillips and Jan Schmidt Marmor Endowments

Ashoka Elects Its First Egyptian Fellows

Brazilian Fellow Wins Top U.N. Environment Award for Success in Reducing Multi-Billion Dollar Illegal Traffic in Wild Animals

A Letter from Lee Hamilton, Former Chair, House Foreign Affairs Committee

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Fellow Collaborations Jump 87 Percent

        During the last two years, the number of collaborations between Ashoka Fellows grew 87 percent —
Childline One collaboration brings India's 58-city free telephone helpline for street children to Southeast Asia.
four times the roughly 20 percent increase in the number of Fellows.


"Ashoka itself personifies its vision — it is highly inventive and entrepreneurial."
Michael Porter
Author of Competitive Advantage

        Ashoka President Sushmita Ghosh commented, "This is one of our most important performance measures. It is key because leading social entrepreneurs can help one another far more than we or anyone else can. Together, they are far more powerful than solo. Much of Ashoka's work, therefore, is focused on finding the best frameworks and providing the right supports to encourage collaboration."
        Collaborations range from Academy-led global joint undertakings (see e.g., the next article), through helping Fellows connect digitally, to local Fellows sharing information and contacts.
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Global Academy Presses Social-Business Ventures

         Social entrepreneurs from around the world, organized by Good development/business Ashoka's global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship, gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in October where they began building a common global agenda for promoting social-business ventures. Such ventures build profitable business opportunities directly into the pursuit of social objectives — thereby gaining revenues, independence, and an engine of replication.

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