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Pionier und Antreiber im sozialen Sektor, aktiv in über 80 Ländern, zu ihren Fellows gehören Muhammad Yunus und Jimmy Wales: Ashoka ist seit über 30 Jahren die weltweit größte Organisation zur Förderung von Social Entrepreneurship. Ein Porträt. Hamburg – Aus Brachland blühende Gärten zu machen, ist...

Social Entrepreneurs sind in Deutschland seit Jahren auf dem Vormarsch, Politik und Wirtschaft haben den Wert dieser besonderen Spezies von Unternehmern längst erkannt. Trotzdem steht die junge Branche noch immer vor vielen Herausforderungen. Hamburg – Das Dorf der Weltverbesserer hat schon so...

Forbes has published their second annual list of 30 under 30 social entrepereneurs. Ashoka is well represented with Ashoka Fellows and Youth Venturers included in the list. Congratulations to the young people recognized for their hard work changing the world. Educate! - Founder and Fellow, Eric...

Every once in a long while, a policy process delivers quick and ambitious results. For a short while. The recent EU policies around social entrepreneurship may not have made many headlines but triggered a profound change. They may even end up rerouting billions of dollars in funding to social...

Editor's Note: This post was written by Rukmini Banerjee an Associate with the Ashoka Empathy Initiative based on a brown bag conversation with Jim Thompson at Ashoka Headquarters in DC. Thirteen years of fieldwork in social entrepreneurship have culminated in The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook...

John Kluge (@klugesan) is co-author with Karl T. Muth and Michael T.S. Lindenmayer of “Charity and Philanthropy for Dummies,” released this week. John is also co-founder and chief disruption officer of Toilet Hackers (@toilethackers), a US-based nonprofit accelerating access to improved sanitation...

Tomás Alvarez, Mike Marriner, Emily May, Andrew Mangino, and Jeff Parker: five individuals who, at first glance, don’t have much in common. Jeff uses his MBA to run a dental clinic, while Tomás beat boxes with high schoolers. Andrew was a speechwriter for Vice President Biden and Attorney General...

Geogretown just announced a new center to promote collaboration among students, faculty and the private sector to foster innovation and provide a unique skill-set to generate concrete, solution-based social change. The video from the launch event features Ashoka Fellow Mark Hanis, ASN members...

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Ashoka's "Change in the Making" Forbes blog and is a part of a series of Inventior-Entrepreneur stories brought to you in partnership with the Lemelson Foundation These leaders, whom we call Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows, have accomplished tasks such as...