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In 1967, a physician and nurse named Cicely Saunders founded St. Christopher’s Hospice to demonstrate her vision for how to care for patients at the end of their lives. Under her stewardship, St. Christopher’s became a center for innovation and excellent care, but also for education and research...

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

A friend recently asked me advice related to an organization where she’s on the Board. The organization targets at-risk teens to develop healthier lifestyle practices, develop confidence and become more independent. My friend joined because she believed in the cause, their innovative methodologies...

People often ask me why I started working with Ashoka and why I have I stayed with Ashoka for the last eight years. I tell the story of how during my late teens and twenties I worked in Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and other parts of the world where I saw extreme poverty. I remember playing with...

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and the rate of change accelerates, new organizational models are fundamental to an organization’s ability to remain competitive and relevant. When organizations empower fluid and open teams with distributed accountability and decision-making, the...

On April 18, 2010 Bill Drayton and Ashoka were awarded the Essl Social Prize in Vienna, Austria. The Essl Social Prize was founded in 2008 by Austrian business entrepreneur Martin Essl and his wife Gerda. It is the largest cash prize in the social sector, awarding EUR 1 million to one groundbreaking...

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...