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Excerpt from The Big Shift: A Roadmap to Innovation for an Aging Population

Editor's note: The following is adapted from Civic Ventures founder and Ashoka Fellow Marc Freedman's latest book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife. With the first of 78 million baby boomers turning 65 this year, Freedman challenges an aging society to reimagine the decades...

How to Build a World Safe for Changemaking in Pakistan - Tahir Khilji

Social entrepreneurs, by their very nature, are system disrupters – they constantly challenge the status quo to mobilize innovative solutions that demand the reinvention of our market, legal, policy or citizen sector systems. However, the changes entrepreneurs promote are not always popular and they...

A Son of Slaves Still Fights For Human Rights

The campaign to abolish slavery in the U.S. might be over, but globally the problem persists. In Mali, one descendant of servitude is taking up the fight to help others become free. While slavery was abolished in Mali after independence from the French in 1960, there are still more than 800,000...