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KaBOOM! is the sound of an idealist changing the world and it’s the sound of a call to action that challenges traditional notions of community and social change. KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play is a new book by Ashoka Fellow Darell Hammond. Author David Bornstein describes Hammond...

Let's talk about Darell Hammond by the numbers for a moment. 576 community-created playgrounds. Six skate parks. 1,300 neighborhood restoration projects. 44 states. And, now, one. A #1 bestseller on Amazon.com, that is. The Ashoka Fellow and author of the new book KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a...

Ashoka’s Youth Venture, a global organization supporting youth social entrepreneurs, and Best Buy Co., Inc. are proud to present the five winners of the Technology for a Better World Campaign. The winners were recognized for their innovative contributions to public and community service at the...

Editor's Note: On June 2, 2014, The Washington Post newspaper front page story highlighted an Ashoka Changemaker School and an Ashoka Fellow organization whose work showcase Ashoka's key strategy to transform the growing up experience of youth to one where changemaking is at the core. Maury is...

“This world requires a new paradigm for growing up and therefore also for education,” Bill Drayton wrote last year in Stanford Social Innovation Review. “Just as 50 to 100 years ago society took the radical step of saying that every person must master written language, now we must insist that every...

Today is the day. After seven months, 632 entries from 63 countries, and the selection of 305 Pacesetters and 30 Pioneers, we are proud to announce the 10 Champions in the Re-imagine Learning Challenge. These 10 Champions were introduced on stage at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE)...

Hi! I’m Marc, and much like you, I am in a constant state of high five with social entrepreneurship. People around us are inspired, governments are taking notice, ideas are becoming impactful projects and we are evolving as citizens of our capitalistic societies. It’s an easy field to fall in love...

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and the rate of change accelerates, new organizational models are fundamental to an organization’s ability to remain competitive and relevant. When organizations empower fluid and open teams with distributed accountability and decision-making, the...

It’s been 5 months into the Young Champions program, and it’s difficult to believe I’m more than halfway to the end of a journey which seems like it just started. January has been a month of exploration for me, as I work on creating a model of sustainability for the community resource centers. I’m...