Get Ready to Be a Changemaker
Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich, who heads Ashoka's worldwide efforts to forge profitable alliances between private companies and citizen-sector organizations, have just submitted a jointly authored blog post to the Harvard Business Reviews " The Conversation " blogs section...
Girl Em(power)ment: Laurel Touby, Leslie Harris and Sheila Krumholz Speak with Changemakers about Women, Tools and Technology
In case you missed the Changemakers.com Twitterview podcasts with Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby, Center for Democracy + Technology CEO Leslie Harris and Center for Responsive Politics Executive Director Sheila Krumholz this week, we've got them posted here on Ashoka.org for your perusal! They are...
Erick van der Laat, Western Union & Ella Peinovich, Soko: Leading a Start-Up into a New Stage of Growth
Ashoka’s Executive in Residence program fosters high-impact collaborations between corporations and Ashoka Fellows, the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Corporate executives work on-site with social entrepreneurs around the world to tackle a challenge that is critical to the Fellow’s ability to...
A Team of Teams World
The rate of change has been accelerating exponentially since 1700 at least. So has the number of people causing change. This acceleration also applies (and I believe this is especially important) to the number of combinations, and combinations of combinations, of changemakers collaborating.
The...
Building Cities of Changemakers
When you look at the work of the young and dynamic social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer, founder of Citymart , you can observe many different things. Most obviously, you will see a brilliant and rapidly growing open methodology (or approach if you prefer) enabling sharing and efficiency in urban...
Rethinking the Impact Spectrum
A friend recently asked me advice related to an organization where she’s on the Board. The organization targets at-risk teens to develop healthier lifestyle practices, develop confidence and become more independent. My friend joined because she believed in the cause, their innovative methodologies...
Leading For Longevity: 4 Tips To Build Teams That Last
My Only Job Since College A friend from a well-respected organization recently asked me, “How do you have so many people stay on your team for so many years? What’s your secret?” I’ve now been at the same organization, Ashoka, for eight years. It’s been my only professional home since I graduated...
The Ashoka Fireside chats: Leadership on steroids
Henry De Sio – Vice President for Framework Change at Ashoka and Chief Operating Officer for the Obama '08 campaign – discusses his experience of 'leadership on steroids' campaigning for the US president, change-making with Ashoka and using the force, in an exclusive interview with Pioneers Post...
Future Forum Cheat Sheet: 3 Ways To Become A More Effective Leader
At Ashoka, we spend a lot of time talking about the fact that everyone can be a “changemaker.” But during the recent Ashoka Future Forum the conversation shifted to how a do-gooder can become a “change leader,” someone who leads a team of like-minded activists, entrepreneurs or socially conscious...
What is the Solution Revolution? A Book about the Emergence and Growth of the Innovative Citizen-Sector
This is the time where the number of connections across the globe and the amount of change is increasing. More and more we see global discontentment rise over how public and private sectors are playing a role to deliver vital interests, from economic opportunity to health care and education....