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Earlier this month I sat down with Dr. Craig Zelizer, Associate Director of the Conflict Resolution MA Program at Georgetown University and TechChange Advisor, to talk about the online professional network that he created in 2008 called the Peace and Collaborative Development Network (PCDN). PCDN...

I came across this statement in a recent Op-Ed piece in The New York Times by Bob Herbert. How can this mentality be possible? Bob Herbert looked to Ashoka Fellow Gary Slutkin to learn more: “These violent behaviors are learned,” said Dr. Slutkin. “They are largely formed by modeling, the almost...

Ashoka Fellow Bart Weetjens' organization, APOPO, trains HeroRats (giant pouched rats) to detect land mines in Africa. Bart is also employing their superb noses to detect tuberculosis. Bart and APOPO were just featured in CNN, and you can read the article here: Be sure check it out and see how you...

Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton has contributed an essay to McKinsey&Company's new What Matters publication and website. In it he describes the qualities and instincts of social entrepreneurs, sharing lessons learnt from 30 years of seeking out the world's most high-impact changemakers. He goes...

Obama honors an Ashoka Fellow: In 2010, US Fellow JB Schramm and College Summit were chosen by U.S. President Barack Obama to recieve $125,000 of his $1.4 milion Nobel Prize. College Summit is a national non-profit organization that partners with high schools to strengthen college-going culture and...

Social entrepreneurship is a vast world made up of many complementary parts. How do social entrepreneurs launch and grow? What role does Ashoka play? Who are its partners in this ever-expanding field? Below is a great overview from David Bornstein and Susan Davis to help you naviate the beauty of...