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Ashoka and Brookings Institution's Valuing Black Homes Initiative Highlighted as Key to Innovation in Housing Equity
MARYLAND, USA — After WUSA 9 published a report last November detailing allegations of home appraisal bias in Prince George’s County, more families have come forward with similar experiences. These families claim because they’re Black homeowners in majority-Black neighborhoods, some home appraisers...
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Bill Drayton shares how everyone can become a changemaker
During a time of political tensions, climate disruptions and rising uncertainties, there has never been a more crucial moment to become a changemaker.
Newest Ashoka Fellow in Sweden Jenny Lindström-Beijar is changing the way we think of "normal" to better support and connect families of children with disabilities
Her organization called ‘Our Normal’ connects families to show they are not alone in trying to find spaces that respect and are better suited to their children’s disabilities. Central to this process is the ability to build communities that both can be there to support each other, as well as being a...
Refugees in Europe: how to help in a systemic way?
"Once again, our news feeds are filled with heart-breaking images and stories of hundreds of thousands of people on the move, fleeing from the Ukrainian crisis and other conflict points, seeking refuge across Europe: especially Central European Countries like Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary...
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Ashoka Fellows' response to the Ukrainian crisis
As we watch a humanitarian crisis unfold in the middle of Europe, Ashoka’s network and community of changemakers are taking action to support the most vulnerable
Ashoka releases the "The Unlonely Planet 2022" Report
Ashoka’s global study of systems-changing social entrepreneurs outlines 11 key strategies to building an Everyone a Changemaker world.
Unleashing a more inclusive environment for development
After participating in the Dela programme, a global systems change accelerator co-created between Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship, the social enterprise Access Bangladesh Foundation is fleshing out key changes to produce reliable and comparable disaggregated data about persons with...
System-Changing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Post-COVID-19 World
It is January 2020 and I am looking at data about broken markets: One in nine people in the world go hungry each day and hundreds of millions of children are malnourished, even though there is enough food to feed us all. About two billion people lack access to safe water, including millions in...
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Twenty-five Ashoka Fellows Named to WEF Top 50 COVID-19 Responders
Ashoka joined the World Economic Forum’s COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs, which was set up in April 2020 with the mission to stand by social entrepreneurs as first responders to the COVID-19 crisis and as pioneers of a new normal. Over a year later, the crisis is far from over and...
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Ashoka Fellow David Bornstein's #BriefButSpectacular Take on Telling the Whole Story
Ashoka Fellow David Bornstein is transforming news reporting through Solutions Journalism that integrates in depth reporting on challenges and solutions to them
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Change Makers UK Partner with Ashoka to Inspire Listeners
Listen to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Change Makers Podcast UK Playlist featuring insights from Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton and Ashoka Young Changemaker Ara Kusuma
The right to sign: Deaf culture and language access
Melissa Malzkuhn on digital storybooks for Deaf children and why the future is 3-D