Select Global Press and Media

Awards

• thedotgood. ranks Ashoka in the top 200 Social Good Organizations of 2022
  • thedotgood.  |   2023
• NGO Advisor ranks the World Best Social Good Organizations 
  • NGO Advisor  |  2021
• Ashoka Receives Transformative Investment to Advance Equity and Support Changemakers Globally
  • Global Newswire (Intrado)  |  2021

Article of Note

• Opinion | Everyone a Changemaker - The New York Times
  • David Brooks |  September 2018

Press Releases

• T-Mobile and the T-Mobile Foundation Announce Winners of the 2022 Changemaker Challenge
  • Bloomberg, USA  |  May 2022
• Ashoka Releases the "Unlonely Planet 2022" Report
  • Ashoka, USA  |   February 2022
• Ashoka and the Brookings Institute Launch "Valuing Homes in Black Communities" Challenge
  • Brookings, USA  |  October 2021
• Five Ashoka Young Changemakers Receive Prestigious 'Diana Award'
  • Mphasis, India  |  August 2021

Select Articles from Around the World**

• Big Change Starts from Yourself (in Indonesian)
  • NU Online, Indonesia  |   May 2023
• Mother, Mother Nature and the Last Eden
  • The Philippine Star, Philippines  |  May 2023
• Champion of the Gorillas: the vet fighting to save Uganda's great apes
  • The Guardian, UK  |   April 2023
• America's Path Forward: Conversations with Social Innovators on the Power of Communities Everywhere
  • Candid. Philanthropy News Digest, USA  |   February, 2023
• Bill Drayton Interview with Scholastic Kid Press
  • Scholastics Kid Press, USA  |   February 2023
• "I feel more like an animal than a person": the Argentine who lives with 17 rescued pumas (in Spanish)
  • El País, Argentina  |  January 2023
• Q&A: Climatologist Carlos Nobre’s dream of an Amazon Institute of Technology
  • Mongabay, USA  |  January 2023
• Farming with a Future
  • Pioneers Post, UK  |  January 2023
• Women out loud: The initiative that seeks to make mental health problems visible (in Spanish)
  • El Desconcierto, Chile  |  December, 2022
• Why a changemaking culture is key in motivating and empowering employees
  • Human Resources Online, Worldwide  |  December 2022
• How can we apply changemaking in teaching? Two examples of good educational practices (in Spanish)
  • Institute for the Future of Education, Mexico  |   December 2022
• From 'heropreneurship' to activating changemakers: What is the future of social entrepreneurship in Europe?
  • World Economic Forum, Worldwide  |  November 2022
• Two Valdians among the 50 most promising changemakers in Italy: Chiara di Clemente and Domenico Pastore awarded in Rome (in Italian)
  • Italia 2 TV, Italy  |  November 2022
• Ewa Furgał: Diagnosis is a manual for yourself (in Polish)
  • ngo.pl, Poland  |  November 2022
• A great window of opportunity for social entrepreneurs (in Spanish)
  • infobae, Latin America  |  November 2022
• Hope Builders Entrepreneurial Foundation Builds Bridges Between Skills and Certificates
  • News Panorama  |  November 2022
• Young environmental traction: who are the adolescents who raise their voices to save the planet? (in Spanish)
  • infobae, Latin America |  October 2022
• Lab4U, Ashoka and Fundación Olivo carry out an activity "MIM: Scientific Education for Change" (in Spanish)
  • Gritonas, Chile  |  October 2022
• Who are the new Ashoka Fellows? (in French)
  • Carenews, France  |  October 2022
• Ever wanted to see the Northern Lights? ‘Borealis’ illuminates the Cambridge Science Festival
  • The Boston Globe, USA  |  October 2022
• Study shows how youth from the Amazon organize to promote climate justice (in Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Folha de Sao Paulo  |  September 2022
• Putting immigrants at the heart of the transformation of immigration systems
  • Maison de l'Innovation Sociale, France  |  September 2022
• Creating New Pathways in Retail to Support Persons with Disabilities in India
  • Next Billion, Worldwide  |  August 2022
• Ashoka and HSBC launch call for the “Re-generation” program (in Spanish)
  • ExpokNews, Mexico  |  August 2022
• Young researchers create a digital keyboard with characters from more than 40 indigenous languages of the Amazon (in Brazilian Portuguese)
  • g1, Brazil  |  August 2022
• Ximena Abogabir and the perspective of longevity in Chile: "86% of this group have a more positive vision" (in Spanish)
  • CNN, Chile  |  July 2022
• How many villages does it take to raise a young changemaker? (in Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Futura, Brazil  |  July 2022
• The 'choice' between paper or plastic is a false one
  • Rappler, Worldwide  |  June 2022
• Flat-packed social purpose: how Ikea’s ‘impact integrity’ clicks into place
  • Pioneers Post, Sweden  |  June 2022
• New breed of American Leader
  • The Harvard Gazette, USA  |  May 2022
• What I Want My Kids to Learn About American Racism
  • New York Times, USA  |  May 2022
• Ashoka launches the “Everyone A Changemaker” Movement, AYC Program in Nigeria
  • Various Media Outlets, Nigeria  |  May 9-13, 2022
• New appraising techniques could ensure fairness, innovators say
  • WUSA 9, USA  |  May 2022
• Social entrepreneur Markus Raivio has been chosen as Finland’s first Ashoka Fellow
  • Nørd News, The Nordics  |  April 2022
• Paris : avec Ta voix compte, place aux jeunes pour la présidentielle (Paris: With the program "Ta Voix Compte" the place for youth is for the presidential)
  • Le Parisien, France  |  March 2022
• Helena Singer, da Ashoka: “O que os jovens precisam é que as pessoas os escutem e levem a sério as iniciativas que eles estão criando”
  • DRAFT, Brazil  |  March 2022
• Ashoka Global Survey: Changemaker Identity Helps Sustain Lifelong Work
  • Pioneers Post, UK  |  February 2022
• Luciana delle Donne di Made in carcere: “L’economia del futuro è donarsi al prossimo” – Dove eravamo rimasti #3
  • Italia Che Cambia, Italy  |  February 2022
• Hamse Warfa makes US History as 1st Somali American Presidential Appointee
  • ABC News, USA  |  January 2022
• Can Faith Power Social Change?
  • Yale Insights, USA  |  January 2022
• How to Teach Empathy to Kids
  • Quartz, USA  |  December 2021
•  Una nueva veterinaria se incorpora al grupo asesor de la OMS sobre nuevos patógenos
  • Diario Veterinario, Spain  |  November 2021
• Ashoka, Worldreader Celebrate Young Talent on the International Day of the Girl of the Child
  • CIO Africa, Nigeria  |  October 2021
• Our Foster Care System is Fundamentally Broken: I will never forget that that I could have lived with people who loved me
  • New York Times Opinion, USA  |  September 2021
• Five Ashoka Young Changemakers From India Supported by Mphasis F1 Foundation Receive the Prestigious Diana Award
  • The Week, India  |  August 2021
• Meet Akarsh Shroff, a BITS Pilani student whose NGO in Bengaluru helped thousands of rural students access education
  • India Express, India  |  July 2021
• The Cleaner Turned Chef Helping to Feed Thousands of People
  • Ghana Talks Business, Ghana  |  July 2021
• Young women of Egypt prepare to change the world
  • The Social Enterprise Magazine - Pioneers Post, Middle East  |  July 2021
• Bill Drayton: "Un mundo tan desigual es profundamente disfuncional y poco ético"
  • Red/Acción, Argentina  |  July 2021
• All the Waters Bad: In McDowell County you have to get creative to find drinking Water
  • NBC, United States  |  June 2021
• JP Morgan Calling for Reforms to Stop Racial Bias in Housing
  • CNN, United States  |  June 2021
• Fighters' Gym: People with Cerebral Palsy Disabilities are no longer alone
  • Italia Che Cambria, Italy  |  June 2021
• System of Argentine Doctor that offers quality and affordable healthcare for the most vulnerable
  • CNN, Argentina  |  June 2021
• Deutsche Bank and Ashoka launch female social entrepreneurs program
  • ESGN, Singapore  |  May 2021
• Where Age is Just a Number
  • New India Express, India  |  April 2021
• One-of-a-kind Audemars Piguet Black Panther watch sells for $5.2 million
  • Esquire, Middle East  |  April, 2021
• One of Four Brazilian Girls Doesn't have access to pads (In Portuguese)
  • Folha de S.Paolo, Brazil  |  March 2021
• Changing the World is the New Literacy
  • UOL, Brazil  |  March 2021
• Olga Bocarejo: Creator of a Bank that Exchanges Waste for Food
  • UNDP Columbia, Colombia  |  March 2021
• Tren Digital Memperkuat Aksi Sosial Anak Muda
  • Kompas, Indonesia  |  February, 2021
• How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change 
  • New Yorker, USA  |  February, 2021
• Chu Hoang Son var först i världen med kaffesneakers
  • Coffee Sneaker, Sweden/Finland  |  January, 2021
• Ils veulent faire du chômage une expérience constructive
  • Figaro  |  January, 2021
• A Greek Scientist Among National Geographic Explorers
  • X-Pat, Athens  |  January, 2021
• Qué es el emprendimiento social y por qué es el futuro 
  • Vogue, Spain  |  September, 2020

            **(Feel free to also explore the latest stories about changemakers worldwide)

Publications and Books

• America's Path Forward
  • Georgetown Press  |  March 2023
• Thinking and Acting Like a Platform Will Help Social Entrepreneurs Create Impact at Scale
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review  |  November 2022
• International Models of Changemaker Education
  • Rowman & Littlefield  |  July 2022
• The Unlonely Planet 2022: How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker World
  • Ashoka  |  February 2022
• Vol. 11 (2022): Global Trends in Social Entrepreneurship: Developments in a COVID-19 World
  • Social Innovation Journalism  |  January 18, 2022
• Influence for Good: How Highly Resourced Individuals can Support Systems Change
  • Ashoka  |  January 2022
• Vol. 10 (2021): Transformative Social Innovations: Cross Sector Collaborations and Partnerships
  • Social Innovation Journalism  |  December 1, 2021
• Changemaker Playbook: The New Physics of Leadership in a World of Explosive Change
  • Henry de Sio  |  March 2021
• Issue 52 | From Social Entrepreneurship to Everyone a Changemaker – 40 Years of Social Innovation
  • Social Innovation Journalism  |  November 28, 2018
• Let's Redraw the Map
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review  |  Fall 2016
• Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World, by Beverly Schwartz
  • Jossey-Bass   |   February 2012
• How to Change the World, by David Bornstein
  • Oxford University Press  |   September 2007

Special Partnership Book Collections

• Indonesia Publishing Partnership with Room to Read twelve books written by professional writers produced for early readers translated into English
• The Ashoka Worldreader Changemaking Collection

Podcasts

• "Self-belief, positivity and collaboration: how to deliver systemic change – Garvita Gulhati, Founder, Why Waste?"
  • Garvita Gulhati  |  May 2022
• Ending finance’s carbon footprint: mobilising against climate change – Mark Campanale, Founder, Carbon Tracker Initiative
  • Mark Campanale  |  May 2022
• “The future is in our hands. Everyone can take a role, no matter your age or where you live.” Young Changemaker Ara Kusuma shares her vision for a better world
  • Ara Kusuma   |  March 2021
• Ashoka founder Bill Drayton on his life-long goal to create an 'everyone a changemaker' world - Change Makers Podcast
  • Bill Drayton  |  March 2021 

Interviews and Talks

• Author Beverly Schwartz Shines a Light on an "Everyone a Changemaker" World
  • Beverly Schwartz  |   February 2022

TV, Video and Films

• Public Talkshow with Bill Drayton (CEO of Ashoka) and Ulil Abshar Abdalla (translated from Indonesian to English)
  • TV Indonesia  |  May 2023
• A Brief But Spectacular take on memory loss and healthy aging
  • PBS, USA  |  December 2022
• Two Valdians among the 50 most promising changemakers in Italy: Chiara di Clemente and Domenico Pastore awarded in Rome (in Italian)
  • Italia 2 TV, Italy  |  November 2022
• A Brief But Spectacular Take on Rebuilding and Diversifying the Appalachian Economy
  • PBS, USA  |  November 2021
• Brief But Spectacular: David Bornstein
  • PBS News Hour, North America  |  May 2021
• One Lawyer's Mission Helping Incarcerated Inspires Global Movement
  • CNN, UK  |  September 2021
• Who Cares? (Film)
  • Mara Mourão  |  2014