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Why don’t great ideas that are useful and working effectively to solve some of the most pressing social challenges, “travel” as well as business ideas do? Why aren’t they able to scale to solve similar social challenges happening in other parts of the world? What is preventing our Ashoka fellows...

In 1967, a physician and nurse named Cicely Saunders founded St. Christopher’s Hospice to demonstrate her vision for how to care for patients at the end of their lives. Under her stewardship, St. Christopher’s became a center for innovation and excellent care, but also for education and research...

For Healing Fields Foundation (HFF), hosting an Executive in Residence was a new experience that opened our minds to an international business environment and allowed us to look at our work from a strategic growth perspective. We are now better able to approach our work in terms of how to optimize...

How much control are you willing to let go of? Creating the greatest amount of social impact means learning to liberate a well-defined idea and letting other individuals incorporate and disseminate it until it becomes the new social norm. Ashoka Fellow Aaron Hurst changes the system by partnering...

There is nothing more powerful than pattern-changing ideas in the hands of leading social entrepreneurs (as Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton reminds us). The greatest challenge in today’s rapidly changing world is figuring out how to scale-up these good ideas. To discover disruptive innovations with great...

“In a social business, community impact comes first,” was one of the fundamental insights in the first Community Impact Development Group (CIDG) meeting hosted by Ashoka and the Siemens Stiftung in October 2010, and one of the essential claims that members of this group wanted to voice within the...

A new report recommends that social entreneurs who want to increase their impact beyond the limits of their organization’s ability to grow should: 1) embrace complexity and adaptability, 2) build their evidence base, 3) create, convene, and coordinate coalitions, 4) engage government, and 5) shift...

What does it take for a leader's vision to reach its maximum potential?

During the EU Social Innovation Competition, Ashoka teams interviewed Slawomir Takarski, Director of Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing