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What does it take for a leader's vision to reach its maximum potential?

Gonzalo Muñoz, Ashoka Fellow and son of Ximena Abogabir, also an Ashoka fellow, shared the following as a speech to an audience of media, business, public and citizen leaders. “The privileges you enjoy also carry a great responsibility toward those less fortunate.” As a child, this saying was a...

A chat with Rico Gonzalez, Ashoka Philippines Chairperson

Bill Drayton is fostering the “skill that society is desperate for” by raising a generation of supersocial entrepreneurs. All Bill Drayton wants to do is change the world—so, pretty simple. In 1980 he founded Ashoka, a global association of social entrepreneurs whose flagship program provides up to...

Taking on the social challenges of our time, be it treating diseases, hunger, climate change, or improving education is no small feat, and starting a social enterprise dedicated to solving these problems can be daunting. As Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, once said, "Social entrepreneurs are not...

This issue of Social Innovations Journal is devoted to articles by Ashoka that paint a rich portrait of how and what it takes for social entrepreneurs, identified by Ashoka as changemakers, to thrive and succeed in rapidly changing contexts. In the introductory and framing article, Ashoka President...

Bill Drayton is the originator of the term “social entrepreneur,” someone who seeks to drive large-scale ideas to tackle entrenched social problems – in a word, changemakers. The basic idea is that entrepreneurs can impact society, not just finance or an industry. Since coining the phrase in the...

The organization was named after the Indian emperor Ashoka, a good historical example of a social innovator. Since the organization’s main purpose is to develop a changemaking culture, looking for social innovators and helping them reach their full potential is one of its important functions. The...

New Learnings and Insights from the 2018 Global Fellows Study