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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...

During a time of political tensions, climate disruptions and rising uncertainties, there has never been a more crucial moment to become a changemaker.

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...

For most of us, the situation we’ve been living in for the last two years has undeniably triggered a lot of self-reflection: about the way we live, work, connect with others, etc. It has also given us an experience of what it’s like to fight the symptoms of a social problem (attempts to flatten the...

Hear from Åsa Skogström Feldt, Managing director of IKEA Social Entrepreneurship BV, in this blog where she shares her insights from the Dela programme: a global systems change accelerator programme co-created by Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship.

"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...

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’s global study of systems-changing social entrepreneurs outlines 11 key strategies to building an Everyone a Changemaker world.

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...

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...

"Anne Evans joined Ashoka’s leadership team in 2010. A member of Yale SOM’s Charter Class of 1978, she has worked in every sector, including as a partner in a management consulting firm, the executive administrator for the National Gallery of Art, and a co-founder of the Nomadic Kenyan Children’s...

The newly released collection builds a narrative thread of how social entrepreneurs have managed to achieve systemic changes at local, national, and international levels since 2018.

Lone is a changemaker, social-entrepreneur and trained physiotherapist who works to humanize elderly care. She does so through her organization Activity Dose, which encourages caring for the whole individual using an empathy-based and individualized approach to caring for the elderly in nursing...

Translating empathy into action is tricky. Bill Drayton—the founder and CEO of Ashoka—has some ideas.

When crises occurs and we see humankind responding to uncertainty, it's a test of our potential as society to unlock people's potential as changemakers building better futures for all

In their new book The Systems Work of Social Change , social innovation researcher, writer and lecturer Cynthia Rayner and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Director Dr. François Bonnici argue that if we want change at a systemic level, we need to approach this kind of work in a...

**This press release was originally written by Mphasis Bengaluru, India | August 19, 2021 Five Ashoka Young Changemakers have been recognized with the prestigious Diana Award , a recognition for highly inspiring efforts by a young person for social action or humanitarian work. Established in the...

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...

When we look across the work of hundreds of Ashoka Fellows working to bring a new equilibrium to Planet & Climate, many patterns emerge. Chief among them is the undeniable fact that the scale and complexity of the issues and the speed of change needed requires the efforts and involvement of...

On Wednesday June 16, Ashoka received a transformative investment that will advance equity and support Changemakers globally