Ara Kusuma - Since 10 years old, changemaking for the love of cows
Ara's story shows how an early start at changemaking set her on a changemaking pathway for life.
Ashoka cumple 20 años en la Argentina y presentó a los nuevos emprendedores sociales de su red
Ashoka Argentina celebró sus 20 años con dos nuevas integrantes en su red. Las emprendedoras sociales 2017 buscan generar cambios en temas como la moda ética y la educación, desde la innovación y el despertar de las capacidades de las personas. La red de emprendedores sociales más grande del mundo...
Premio Creando Valor Compartido
Para celebrar 10 años de Creando Valor Compartido, Nestlé formó una alianza con Ashoka para buscar, apoyar y acelerar soluciones a los grandes desafíos en temas de água, nutrición y desarrollo rural. Esta alianza promoverá una poderosa cocreación con emprendedores sociales y profundizará el impacto...
DARIO RICCOBONO E VINCENZO LINARELLO NEL PROGRAMMA SPAGNOLO PARA TODOS LA 2
Il programma televisivo spagnolo Para Todos La 2, in onda ogni sabato mattina alle 12.00, ha dedicato diverse puntate ai Fellow italiani di Ashoka. Il 19 Novembre 2016 è andata in onda la puntata sui nostri due Fellow dedicati alla lotta alla criminalità organizzata: Vincenzo Linarello e Dario...
From Standing Rock to Pine Ridge Reservation Community Sustainability: Ashoka Fellow NickTilsen
One of the Dakota Access Pipeline's most devoted protestors is making his strongest stand back in his hometown. On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Nick Tilsen, a 34-year-old member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and founding executive director of the Thunder Valley Community...
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 partnered...
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Contribute to Equitable Growth in the Middle East and North Africa
How might social entrepreneurship contribute to a more competitive economy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), while promoting sustainable development, social justice and equity? That was a question asked earlier this year by panelists at a development marketplace brown bag lunch at the...
A Mobile Commerce Approach to Poverty Alleviation
The Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Microfranchising initiative was selected as one of the winners of the Ashoka Changemakers Powering Economic Opportunity: Create a World that Works competition, a partnership with eBay Foundation. As a result, eBay Foundation is now exploring how to continue working...
Sympathy: Simply Ineffective or Actually Harmful?
Editor's Note: Ashoka imagines a world where education is truly transformational, where every child has mastered empathy—and would like to work with you to help build it. Join us on StartEmpathy.org, our new digital home for all things empathy, where you can learn why empathy matters, pick up...
Who Will Win the Duel? - Building Full Information Citizenship
Editor's note: This post was written by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, contributing editor at Ashoka Changemakers®, and originally featured on the Idea exChange Blog. It's a duel, quite possibly to the death. The bad guys: Censorship, surveillance, sabotage, fraud. The good guys: Freedom, access to...