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For centuries we have had two separate production and distribution systems, one business and the other social, serving virtually every human need but not talking to one another. Over the last three decades, however, the citizen sector has become as competitive and entrepreneurial as business and has...

Higher education in the United States is facing a crisis. The rising cost of tuition is often how this crisis is defined, but when we listen carefully to the discourse, a different issue emerges: students, parents and employers are all expressing doubt about the value of an undergraduate degree. In...

Who you choose to be on your team will define your success in life, in your work, in your relationships. Most of us tend to pick a team of people (or join a team) with similar backgrounds, or who we like working with, or who have similar strengths. While there is nothing wrong with that, surrounding...

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Ashoka Fellow Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitksan First Nation of British Columbia, is building a vibrant social movement to change the discriminatory policies and actions toward First Nations children in Canada. Through the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Blackstock is building...

If you think social entrepreneurship has to be taught as a stand-alone subject, you haven’t met Jane Turner and Benhür Oral. While teaching English as a preparatory subject in Istanbul’s Özyeğin University, they quickly realized they could incorporate far more into the syllabus than just the basic...

For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page, or contact us at [email protected]. BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Juan Loraschi and host Ashoka Fellow Dorien Beurskens Juan Loraschi, Western Union Regional Vice President, partnered with Dorien...

Innovators in education, those leading universities and those working at the fringe to disrupt them, have been debating the future of higher education. That future was at the heart of discussion at the at the 2013 Ashoka U Exchange at the University of San Diego, which featured presidents and...

There has been a recognition and identification that the value systems that drive and underpin the development efforts by all of the stakeholders moves towards viewing the world holistically beyond our human world, acknowledging interconnectedness, embracing plurality, a resilient and sustainable...