Stopping Slavery
What does it take to break down the secretive, highly organized, global system of human slavery? 75 social entrepreneurs are individually and collectively the most powerful force opposing it.
First steps towards greener cars: Allie and Chloe
How two teenagers learned how to convert their engine to electric — and are helping others do the sam
We Can Partner With Nature To Feed Everybody
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is transforming the food system from the ground up by introducing poultry-powered, planet-cooling, regenerative agriculture. He talks about the need to rebalance humanity’s relationship with nature with Pip Wheaton, Ashoka’s co-lead of Planet & Climate.
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Scaling the Impact of the Pet-Human Bond with Social Entrepreneurs
Learn more about the next phase of the Prize journey—a Scaling Social Innovation Program and a Mentoring Program for young changemakers.
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Rising up to reclaim recovery
In pandemic times, here’s what communities in recovery can teach us all
The Social Sector Is Being Called Upon
The pandemic has had a profound impact on businesses — and also on organizations that rely on grants to do work. We caught up with a key expert of the citizen sector: Anne Marie Burgoyne. She is the Managing Director for Emerson Collective, the organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs that uses...
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Angry Americans and What the Future Holds
In 2004, just back from a combat tour in Iraq, Paul Rieckhoff started Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). After growing the group to over 500,000 members and spearheading significant federal policy to protect veterans, Paul transitioned IAVA to new leadership this year and started...
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Can higher education curb polarization?
Four principles for bridge-building from the Working Across Differences Project
Meet the young people invited to speak with the Spanish royal family
Three young leaders reflect on the visit of a lifetime, the journeys that led them there, and the change they seek to make
How Collaboration can inspire New Leadership skills in the Philippines
The Barangay Resilience and Innovation Through Empowerment Project began as five organizations with different backgrounds began to ask the question—what is the most systemic way to build resilience in the Philippines? The Philippines isn't a stranger to disasters—its geography makes it host to...
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Rotary and Ashoka Renew Partnership After Pilot Success
Following a successful pilot year, Rotary and Ashoka are announcing a three-year partnership renewal that will promote opportunities for networking and collaboration between Rotary and Ashoka to help address key social and economic challenges. Collaboration in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Project Moo: Ara's Changemaker Journey
Ara's story shows how an early start at changemaking set her on a changemaking pathway for life.
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Shantanu Paul on Fostering Cognitive Empathy and Connections across Fields
Being a social entrepreneur with a history of young changemaking himself, Shantanu firmly believes that cognitive empathy is the most critical skill for becoming a young changemaker - an individual who has an idea, forms a team, takes on an initiative, and creates meaningful change in their world.
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Whose Knowledge Is It?
Community-centered approaches to research in practice at Simon Fraser University.
Dune Lankard, on the Future of Climate-Changing-Everything
Hi, I’m Dune, creator of: Eyak Preservation Council and the Native Conservancy, which we set up in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill — we have in the years since taken on numerous and endless frontline issues to protect our ancestral home, wild salmon runs, the ocean way of life, and support...
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Bringing pride back in agriculture: Shoaibur’s Changemaker Journey
Shoaibur and his team are bolstering farmers' livelihoods and changing their peers’ mindset towards the vitality of agrarian life.
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“Girls are not burdens - they can fly like birds.” Dola’s Changemaker Journey
As a teenager, Dola is paving a new way forward for Bangladesh with a clear, unbending mission: to end childhood marriage.
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Mobilizing Harmonious Communities: Durukan’s Changemaker Journey
Durukan’s journey to discovering how people live in balance with nature through regenerative agriculture began in his teens when he began to mobilize his peers to build an eco-community. These early experiences while young were prescient to Durukan’s career as a leading social entrepreneur.
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Nico Pablo: Striving to Build Inclusive Communities
Nico’s story illustrates a changemaking journey in which development and communication intersect, detailing how Nico uses such an intersection to create multiple inclusive communities.
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Creating Connections through Peer Tutoring: Shree’s Changemaker Story
When the coronavirus pandemic upended education for millions of students, Shree built a peer mentoring community to support students, relieve parents, and create cross-cultural connections.
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