Building Partnerships: A Conversation with Ashoka Fellow Mohammad Al-Ubaydli and Boehringer Ingelheim Executive Joseph Chalil
Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli is the founder of Patients Know Best (PKB), a technology platform that allows patients to securely view their medical records and share their information with other doctors and family members, giving individual patients easy access to and control over their medical data. Dr....
A Peace Corps Perspective: Are Social Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
To celebrate the Peace Corps' 50th birthday on September 22, Change inSight will be bringing you impact stories from current and returned volunteers from around the world. Since returning from the Peace Corps five months ago, I sometimes find myself questioning “changemaking” from the perspective of...
3 Reasons Volunteering with a Social Innovator is Uniquely Compelling
International volunteering evokes images of the Peace Corps. That more than 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers have written books about their experience leaves no doubt that international service impacted them deeply. Universities have caught on. Increasingly, students are participating in international...
Cycling Without Age takes elderly nursing home residents, who tend to be socially excluded, back into the streets and allows them to be part of ongoing urban life. As the elderly passengers and younger cyclists co-create new experiences on trishaws, Cycling Without Age showcases the joy of...
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Cristina Liamzon is building a global community of empowered Filipino migrant workers through a leadership and education program that encourages them to become drivers of change in the Philippines or in their host countries.
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Through community-based collaborative efforts, António is enabling those who live in unsafe and/or degrading housing conditions to rehabilitate their homes and to improve their livelihood.
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By empowering citizens to take their seat at the table where environmental decisions are made, Paulo Célio de Figueiredo is enabling residents of Brazil’s river basins to better manage and protect their natural resources.
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EIR Lessons in Perspective: An insight into the EIR experiences of Western Union executives Emmanuel and Terry
For information about the Executive in Residence program visit the EIR program page , or contact us at [email protected] . BACKGROUND – MEET THE PEOPLE EIR Emmanuel Salvetti and host Ashoka Fellow Sunanda Mane Emmanuel, Vice President of risk and credit Finance for WU Colorado...