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Awards
- NGO Advisor ranks the World Best Social Good Organizations
- NGO Advisor | 2021
- Ashoka Receives Transformative Investment to Advance Equity and Support Changemakers Globally
- Global Newswire (Intrado) | 2021
Article of Note
- Opinion | Everyone a Changemaker - The New York Times
- David Brooks | September 2018
Press Releases
- T-Mobile and the T-Mobile Foundation Announce Winners of the 2022 Changemaker Challenge
- Bloomberg, USA | May 2022
- Ashoka Releases the "Unlonely Planet 2022" Report
- Ashoka, USA | February 2022
- Ashoka and the Brookings Institute Launch "Valuing Homes in Black Communities" Challenge
- Brookings, USA | October 2021
- Five Ashoka Young Changemakers Receive Prestigious 'Diana Award'
- Mphasis, India | August 2021
Select Articles from Around the World**
- Putting immigrants at the heart of the transformation of immigration systems
- Maison de l'Innovation Sociale | September 2022
- Flat-packed social purpose: how Ikea’s ‘impact integrity’ clicks into place
- Pioneers Post, Sweden | June 2022
- New breed of American Leader
- The Harvard Gazette, USA | May 2022
- What I Want My Kids to Learn About American Racism
- New York Times, USA | May 2022
- Ashoka launches the “Everyone A Changemaker” Movement, AYC Program in Nigeria
- Various Media Outlets, Nigeria | May 9-13, 2022
- New appraising techniques could ensure fairness, innovators say
- WUSA 9, USA | May 2022
- Social entrepreneur Markus Raivio has been chosen as Finland’s first Ashoka Fellow
- Nørd News, The Nordics | April 2022
- Paris : avec Ta voix compte, place aux jeunes pour la présidentielle (Paris: With the program "Ta Voix Compte" the place for youth is for the presidential)
- Le Parisien, France | March 2022
- Helena Singer, da Ashoka: “O que os jovens precisam é que as pessoas os escutem e levem a sério as iniciativas que eles estão criando”
- DRAFT, Brazil | March 2022
- Ashoka Global Survey: Changemaker Identity Helps Sustain Lifelong Work
- Pioneers Post, UK | February 2022
- Luciana delle Donne di Made in carcere: “L’economia del futuro è donarsi al prossimo” – Dove eravamo rimasti #3
- Italia Che Cambia, Italy | February 2022
- Hamse Warfa makes US History as 1st Somali American Presidential Appointee
- ABC News, USA | January 2022
- Can Faith Power Social Change?
- Yale Insights, USA | January 2022
- How to Teach Empathy to Kids
- Quartz, USA | December 2021
- Una nueva veterinaria se incorpora al grupo asesor de la OMS sobre nuevos patógenos
- Diario Veterinario, Spain | November 2021
- Ashoka, Worldreader Celebrate Young Talent on the International Day of the Girl of the Child
- CIO Africa, Nigeria | October 2021
- Our Foster Care System is Fundamentally Broken: I will never forget that that I could have lived with people who loved me
- New York Times Opinion, USA | September 2021
- Five Ashoka Young Changemakers From India Supported by Mphasis F1 Foundation Receive the Prestigious Diana Award
- The Week, India | August 2021
- Meet Akarsh Shroff, a BITS Pilani student whose NGO in Bengaluru helped thousands of rural students access education
- India Express, India | July 2021
- The Cleaner Turned Chef Helping to Feed Thousands of People
- Ghana Talks Business, Ghana | July 2021
- Young women of Egypt prepare to change the world
- The Social Enterprise Magazine - Pioneers Post, Middle East | July 2021
- Bill Drayton: "Un mundo tan desigual es profundamente disfuncional y poco ético"
- Red/Acción, Argentina | July 2021
- All the Waters Bad: In McDowell County you have to get creative to find drinking Water
- NBC, United States | June 2021
- JP Morgan Calling for Reforms to Stop Racial Bias in Housing
- CNN, United States | June 2021
- Fighters' Gym: People with Cerebral Palsy Disabilities are no longer alone
- Italia Che Cambria, Italy | June 2021
- System of Argentine Doctor that offers quality and affordable healthcare for the most vulnerable
- CNN, Argentina | June 2021
- Deutsche Bank and Ashoka launch female social entrepreneurs program
- ESGN, Singapore | May 2021
- Brief But Spectacular: David Bornstein
- PBS News Hour, North America | May 2021
- Where Age is Just a Number
- New India Express, India | April 2021
- One-of-a-kind Audemars Piguet Black Panther watch sells for $5.2 million
- Esquire, Middle East | April, 2021
- One of Four Brazilian Girls Doesn't have access to pads (In Portuguese)
- Folha de S.Paolo, Brazil | March 2021
- Changing the World is the New Literacy
- UOL, Brazil | March 2021
- Olga Bocarejo: Creator of a Bank that Exchanges Waste for Food
- UNDP Columbia, Colombia | March 2021
- Tren Digital Memperkuat Aksi Sosial Anak Muda
- Kompas, Indonesia | February, 2021
- How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change
- New Yorker, USA | February, 2021
- Chu Hoang Son var först i världen med kaffesneakers
- Coffee Sneaker, Sweden/Finland | January, 2021
- Ils veulent faire du chômage une expérience constructive
- Figaro | January, 2021
- A Greek Scientist Among National Geographic Explorers
- X-Pat, Athens | January, 2021
- Qué es el emprendimiento social y por qué es el futuro
- Vogue, Spain | September, 2020
**(Feel free to also explore the latest stories about changemakers worldwide)
Publications and Books
- International Models of Changemaker Education
- Rowman & Littlefield | July 2022
- The Unlonely Planet 2022: How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker World
- Ashoka | February 2022
- Vol. 11 (2022): Global Trends in Social Entrepreneurship: Developments in a COVID-19 World
- Social Innovation Journalism | January 18, 2022
- Vol. 10 (2021): Transformative Social Innovations: Cross Sector Collaborations and Partnerships
- Social Innovation Journalism | December 1, 2021
- Changemaker Playbook: The New Physics of Leadership in a World of Explosive Change
- Henry de Sio | March 2021
- Issue 52 | From Social Entrepreneurship to Everyone a Changemaker – 40 Years of Social Innovation
- Social Innovation Journalism | November 28, 2018
- Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World, by Beverly Schwartz
- Jossey-Bass | February 2012
- How to Change the World, by David Bornstein
- Oxford University Press | September 2007
Podcasts
- "Self-belief, positivity and collaboration: how to deliver systemic change – Garvita Gulhati, Founder, Why Waste?"
- Garvita Gulhati | May 2022
- Ending finance’s carbon footprint: mobilising against climate change – Mark Campanale, Founder, Carbon Tracker Initiative
- Mark Campanale | May 2022
- “The future is in our hands. Everyone can take a role, no matter your age or where you live.” Young Changemaker Ara Kusuma shares her vision for a better world
- Ara Kusuma | March 2021
- Ashoka founder Bill Drayton on his life-long goal to create an 'everyone a changemaker' world - Change Makers Podcast
- Bill Drayton | March 2021
Interviews and Talks
- Author Beverly Schwartz Shines a Light on an "Everyone a Changemaker" World
- Beverly Schwartz | February 2022
TV, Video and Films
- A Brief but Spectacular Take on Rebuilding and Diversifying the Appalachian Economy
- PBS, USA | November 2021
- One Lawyer's Mission Helping Incarcerated Inspires Global Movement
- CNN, UK | September 2021
- Who Cares? (Film)
- Mara Mourão | 2014