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Anamaria Schindler Returns to Ashoka: A New Leader to Take on Today’s Biggest Challenges

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is excited to welcome Anamaria Schindler back to our Leadership Team! As a longtime entrepreneur within Ashoka and in the larger social sector, Schindler is an ideal leader to help integrate and steward our efforts to reach an Everyone a Changemaker™ world...

In Spain, Social Entrepreneurship is Finding Strength

On Friday, October 21, 2011 Bill Drayton joined the ranks of Nelson Mandela, Bill and Melinda Gates, and the World Health Organization in receiving the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. The award, referred to as the Spanish Nobel, is an annual recognition of one person or...

Got Empathy? Kids Do!

Ashoka Fellow Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitksan First Nation of British Columbia, is building a vibrant social movement to change the discriminatory policies and actions toward First Nations children in Canada. Through the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Blackstock is building...

Entrepreneurial Thinking

Entrepreneurs are different, but do they think differently than the rest of us? Entrepreneurs As reported in Inc., a recent study by Saras Sarasvathy et al. compared the thought processes of corporate CEO’s and entrepreneurs. Asked to respond to questions about an imagined start-up company, subjects...