Ashoka Founder and CEO Bill Drayton awarded honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Yale University on May 25, 2009.

Ashokas FEC is promoting a new way of thinking about housing, healthcare and small producers, one that seeks to enable business-social alliances to develop products, distribution channels and financing solutions to better serve these under-served markets. Learn more at http://www.ashoka.org/fec

Four days. Four teams from four universities. Forty+ Changemakers. And that was only the beginning: watch, and welcome aboard.

A short video highlighting Ashoka Fellows leveraging technology to achieve greater impact in Africa.

Ashoka's Full Economic Citizenship initiative is helping prevent the diseases of poverty by improving access to infrastructure, accurate diagnosis, effective drugs, and frontline care in addition to demonstrating how a health ecosystem using a franchise model will provide rural and peri-urban dwellers with convenient, "last-mile" healthcare.

A short welcome message to Ashoka's ever-growing community of changemakers! Song: "Swing Set" by Paper Moon Music made available through Blue Scout Music