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Im INTES Unternehmerbrief beschreibt Felix Oldenburg die Gleichung "Soziale Idee + Unternehmertum = Wirkung" entlang einiger Entwicklungsgeschichten von Ashoka Fellows.

Am Dienstag ist in Berlin der StiftungsReport 2013/2014 des Bundesverbandes Deutscher Stiftungen vorgestellt worden. Enthalten ist auch ein Special zur Rolle von Sitftungen in der Förderung von Social Entrepreneurs, unter anderem mit vielen Fallbeispielen aus der Ashoka Fellowship und einem...

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...

More than 1 billion people (1 in 6 of us) live in an urban slum and this number is expected to double by the year 2030. That is enough to make anyone pessimistic. For one Ashoka Fellow, however, the future is in our hands—we control our own fates. “ Make the surroundings your product,” Amlan Ganguly...

At Ashoka, we spend a lot of time talking about the fact that everyone can be a “changemaker.” But during the recent Ashoka Future Forum the conversation shifted to how a do-gooder can become a “change leader,” someone who leads a team of like-minded activists, entrepreneurs or socially conscious...

Whether you are running a social enterprise or more traditional business, the challenges in selling products or services are similar across the board. At the 2nd Ashoka Support Network Summit held last month in London, more than 150 successful entrepreneurs from both the business and social sectors...

Social entrepreneurship is evolving into a global movement, and it’s rendering the standard nonprofit/for-profit dichotomy obsolete. Now, new legal structures and certifications are being built to accommodate for businesses with embedded social missions. Leading the way in this movement is the B...

Last week the White House honored Ashoka Fellow Steven Clift (@democracy). Clift is the founder of E-Democracy.org, an online platform for citizen collaboration and government transparency. The White House honored 14 innovators from around the country as open government and civic hacking “Champions...

Big news: Three Ashoka Fellows have created the first do-it-yourself credit creation app. The most recent financial crisis, caused by low-quality sub-prime loans, has left people with no income, no jobs and no assets. It has has been remarkably painful for many. But this market collapse is just...