Responding to the lack of adequate, affordable childcare solutions after school hours, Chantal Mainguené has created the first integrated, scalable afterschool program in France. By mobilizing latent resources in the community, Chantal is demonstrating how it is possible to offer a high-quality...
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The Silver Lining of High Unemployment for Social Entrepreneurs
It’s hard to see anything good in recent unemployment numbers: 17% of college-educated young adults (ages 18-29) are either unemployed or not seeking work. But these grim unemployment statistics could actually be beneficial for social entrepreneurs. A recent article focuses on the qualities of young...
Ashoka Business cases social & business Co-Creation
This series of 5 business cases entails finalists and winners of the 2014 Social & Business Co-Creation: Collaboration for Impact competition organized by Ashoka and its partners, the Zermatt Summit Foundation, Guilé Foundation, DPD and Boerhinger Ingelheim. The aim of the competition was to...
Victoria Shocrón is working, in a non-confrontational way, to integrate young people with disabilities into Argentine society and to educate the Argentine public about people with disabilities. In pursuing those twin goals, she has developed a set of programs, including agreements with progressive...
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Clarifying Your Mission: The First Step to Making Social Impact Careers Happen
Editor's note: This is the fourth post in a series highlighting some of the most high-impact and replicable innovations in social entrepreneurship education through the lens of the 2013 Ashoka U – Cordes Innovation Awards winners . “How can I be a Marxist and still own a Jacuzzi?” That essential...
The Ashoka Fireside chats: Leadership on steroids
Henry De Sio – Vice President for Framework Change at Ashoka and Chief Operating Officer for the Obama '08 campaign – discusses his experience of 'leadership on steroids' campaigning for the US president, change-making with Ashoka and using the force, in an exclusive interview with Pioneers Post...
Q&A with IBM’s Tony Tenicela: Empathy, Diversity, and the Keys to Corporate Turnaround
“In today's world, where everyone is so interconnected and interdependent, it is simply essential that we work for each other's success. If we're going to solve the biggest, thorniest, and most widespread problems in business and society, we have to innovate in ways that truly matter.” —Samuel...
Holiday Time
What if America's two most pressing economic concerns could be solved with one big idea? Bill Drayton thinks Americans need a holiday. But Ashoka's chair and founder isn't talking about Christmas, or even New Year's. In an op-ed he wrote for the Huffington Post earlier this week, Drayton argued that...
Bill Drayton Contributes Lead Article to MIT Press's Innovations Journal
“ Engage People, Retire Things ” Explains the Connection Between Unemployment and Climate Change, and How to Get the Jobs/Climate Synergy Working Positively William Drayton, board chair of the fuller employment policy group Get America Working!, and founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the...
Freeing the Social Entrepreneur--Excerpts
Social entrepreneurs who are steering their organizations toward growth need to share the reins, according to an article by Chantal Laurie Below and Kimberly Dasher Tripp. A social entrepreneur wears as diverse, if not as absurd, a collection of hats as Lady Gaga, the pop star known for putting...