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How Baby "Teachers" in Classrooms are Teaching Older Kids Empathy

Empathy and the ability to understand the cruelty of a mean comment or text can stop bullying in its tracks. But how do you teach it? TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones goes inside one Washington, D.C., school that may have found the way.

Good Grief! Is It Possible to Bridge Our Differences?

“We Need a Way to Talk Openly”

Anne Basting: Forget Memory, Try Imagination

Ashoka Fellows Roundtable on Aging: Chapter 1 Anne Bastings: Forget Memory, Try Imagination!

Ashoka Fellow Anne Basting shares how and why she founded TimeSlips. Her Innovative approach to communicating with people with dementia is being replicated worldwide. Please Join Anne, other Ashoka Fellows and friends for this special event. Contact us for further information of the event.

Ashoka Fellows Roundtable on Aging: Chapter 3 Ole Kassow: The Right to Relate

Ashoka Fellow Ole Kassow shares why he founded Cycling Without Age, and how offering free trishaw rides in his community turned into a global movement that creates relationships that break isolation and loneliness in old age. Please join Ole, other Ashoka Fellows and friends for this special event.

Ashoka Fellows Roundtable on Aging: Chapter 4 Sérgio Serapião: Celebrating Longevity

Ashoka Fellow Sérgio Serapião shares how and why he founded LAB60+, a movement of people and organizations, to revolutionize the meaning of longevity. Please join Sergio, other Ashoka Fellows and friends for this special event.

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...

Getting My Empathetic Gordon Gecko On

Can you imagine how the process of closing down a factory could possibly help extend healthcare to people in remote parts of the developing world? It sounds like a stretch, right? But this month, I have seen the link materialize before my very eyes. The earliest days of my professional life were...

Empathy is a Winning Strategy

Think of the word “athlete,” and stereotypical “jock” images will likely come to mind: the guy (almost always a guy) with the pumped up muscles and fierce demeanor, whose aggression doesn’t go away when he leaves the court or field. But these associations overlook a little known fact: the best...

Anamaria Schindler Returns to Ashoka: A New Leader to Take on Today’s Biggest Challenges

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is excited to welcome Anamaria Schindler back to our Leadership Team! As a longtime entrepreneur within Ashoka and in the larger social sector, Schindler is an ideal leader to help integrate and steward our efforts to reach an Everyone a Changemaker™ world...

Got Empathy? Kids Do!

Ashoka Fellow Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitksan First Nation of British Columbia, is building a vibrant social movement to change the discriminatory policies and actions toward First Nations children in Canada. Through the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Blackstock is building...