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Bigger Than Me: Leaders who look beyond themselves to scale their ideas

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

Book Release from the Ashoka Community: The Wealth of the Poor - Scaling Up Business Solutions to Social Problems

I don’t know about you but I struggle to think of a device I could purchase that would improve my work productivity or help me save money. Actually, looking at the gadgets that clutter my desk I have probably been over-equipped for a long time. By contrast, poor families at the “base of the pyramid”...

Collaborating on Rural Innovation and Farming at Globalizer 2012

Editor's note: This post was written by Lauren Batcheck who works with the Ashoka Rural Innovation and Farming (RIF) Venture Collaborative Entrepreneurship (VCE) Program. How do you increase the wellbeing and sustainability of rural farmers? Or improve the quality of life of the underserved poor...

Globalizer on Health and Lighting in Netherlands- "Innovating for Sustainable Communities"

What is the Globalizer? Ashoka and the Philips Foundation collaborated to scale the impact of social entrepreneurs by “Innovating for Sustainable Communities”. Together they launched a 6-month accelerator program: The Globalizer on Health and Lighting, which focused on helping 12 leading social...

The Future of Solar Born from a Lifetime of Innovation

UPDATE: Although it’s been just two weeks since we last checked in on the 19-year-old whiz kid Eden Full, there are a couple of updates to her impact story. TechChrunch gave Full a shout-out for her contributions to the solar industry, and for winning the 2011 Staples/Ashoka Youth Social...

Getting Our Hands Dirty: Social Innovators Show How Healthy Soil Makes Healthy People

Howard Buffett’s recent book, 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World, shares two interrelated insights: that a farmer gets to produce around 40 annual harvests in her lifetime, and that living soils play an absolutely essential role in her and future generations’ abilities increase that harvest...

How to Tackle Energy Poverty? Using Products as a Service and Partnering with Corporates

Ashoka Belgium Impact Programme 2020 presents Stefan Goemaere & Papillon 🔸 Stefan started the Papillon project in 2014, as a way to come in aid to people in energy poverty. 🌱 The Impact Programme is a multi-sector collaboration between Ashoka, ABN AMRO Private Banking Belgium and Accenture Belgium...