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Ashoka News:
Rotary and Ashoka Collaborate to Improve Communities Globally (June 1, 2018)
Protecting and Promoting Opportunities for Meaningful Play at School: Dr. Lauren McNamara, founder of the Recess Project, named newest Ashoka Canada Fellow (April 24, 2018)
What Others Say About Ashoka - Media and Awards:
The Association for Computing Machinery Awards Ken Banks for Developing FrontlineSMS (5/10/17)
Ashoka and C&A Foundation support 5 Leading Social Innovators in Fabric of Change Partnership (2/7/17)
First Ever Framework For Philanthropic Sector To Address Risk (1/18/17)
Ashoka Appoints Pape Samb Representative For Africa (11/1/16)
Ashoka Launches “Great Changemakers Start In Their Youth” (8/12/16)
Awards
- Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton Honored by the American Philosophical Society (2019)
- Ashoka Fellow Jeroo Billimoria Wins Dutch Royal Honors (2018)
- Ashoka Fellow Mary Gordon Wins Canada's Innovation Award (2018)
- Bezwada Wilson Wins the Ramon Magsaysay Award (2016)
- Ashoka Ranks Sixth in the World of Top 500 NGO’S (2016)
- Bill Drayton wins Social Venture Network 'Hall of Fame Impact Award' (2012)
- Ashoka Fellow Lucy Kanu wins Fairness Award (2012)
- Bill Drayton receives Harvard Kennedy School’s prestigious Richard E. Neustadt Award (2012)
- Social entrepreneurship film “Who Cares?” wins the Best Feature Documentary Award at DC Film Festival (2012)
- Ashoka President Diana Wells receives the Williams Rogers Award, Brown University's Highest Honor (2012)
- Bill Drayton wins Prince of Asturias Award (2011)
- Diana Wells recognized as a Social Innovation Champion by George Mason University (2011)
- Bill Drayton receives the Gardner Leadership Award (2011)
- Bill Drayton and Ashoka Receive 2010 Essl Social Prize (2010)
- Yale Awards Highest Honor to Bill Drayton (2009)
- CNN-IBN Real Heroes Awards: Ella Bhatt and Anshu Gupta (2009)
- Co-President Diana Wells Wins Running Start Award (2007)
- Bill Drayton Recognized with 2007 CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award (2007)
Books
- The Big Idea: Global Spread of Affordable Housing (2012)
- Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World (2012)
- Stories of Change (2011)
- Collaborative Entrepreneurship (2011)
- Ashoka Acknowledged in “Half the Sky” (2009)
- How to Change the World (2007)