Take the first step to be the changemaker you want to be - An imperative to achieving the SDGs
The myriad of innovations and creative solutions brought by social entrepreneurs will definitely be a key part of the solving equation to achieve by 2030 the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as agreed in 2015 by the United Nations to provide a more prosperous, secure and...
The Network Effect
The citizen sector is learning how to collaborate beyond individual practices and fields of work. In powerful and strategic partnership, social innovators across sectors spread ideas broadly to ultimately change whole systems. This is collaborative entrepreneurship . Ashoka Founder & CEO Bill...
Helping Poor Communities Have a Say in Their Own Development
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Since 1950, 20 percent of sea species have disappeared and the rate of extinction of marine species has been accelerating so fast that there could be few wild fish left by 2050. To reverse this situation, Claire Nouvian is building a collaborative research community that enables and pushes companies...
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Paulo Lima founded a low-cost, effective print publication to spark the participation of children and teenagers in civic life and decision-making. He also helps adult readers understand and respect the perspectives of young people on issues of critical importance to the community.
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Ronaldo Lima de Oliveira is working both to prevent the destruction of the rain forest and to guarantee the survival of forest communities by creating a model for sustainable agro-economical activities in Brazil's recently-created "extractive reserves." The strategies that he is developing will...
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Introducing the Ashoka Book Club: Up and Out of Poverty - The Social Marketing Solution
This will be the first of monthly book reviews from Ashoka staff, covering books which we have found relevant to our work. This first review is by Fransje de Waard who works with Ashoka in the Netherlands and is on Up and Out of Poverty - The Social Marketing Solution” by Philip Kotler and Nancy R....
Brad Pitt, Nietzsche and Crawfish Cravings
You could smell the spicy Creole stew from six blocks in every direction. When we got to the corner where there was a makeshift cardboard sign touting "FREE crawfish boil" and a line of hungry New Orleaneans, the Crescent City had taken me into its arms. I savored the crawfish boil and the...
America's Promise Meant for Everyone
"Can you believe that, at one point, women couldn't vote in America? That Japanese American citizens were put in detention camps because of the actions of the Imperial Japanese Navy? That Jackie Robinson was spat upon on the baseball diamond because of the color of his skin? That there were quotas...
Seeding Food Security
“Food security,” according to Ashoka Fellow Munyaradzi Saruchera , “is not having a lot of food on the shelves.” It’s about “seeding food security,” he says, by reestablishing an interest in local and indigenous foods and building a network of seed banks in South Africa. Ashoka works with social...