Bill Drayton and Sally Osberg on Growth and Transformation of Social Entrepreneurship
What are social entrepreneurs? What are the unique ways in which they work to achieve lasting solutions to the enormous problems facing humankind? What makes social entrepreneurship different from other approaches to social change? Bill Drayton, Founder and CEO of Ashoka, and Sally Osberg, President...
The Inner Path to Become a Systems Entrepreneur
A growing body of evidence suggests the inner qualities of a systems change leader can be cultivated through a focus on inner wellbeing and self-awareness. This link between inner work and social impact is something that is being explored by The Wellbeing Project, a coalition of organizations...
Habitar la ciudad de otra manera
La idea de que las personas puedan unirse para formar una comunidad y así mejorar el lugar en el que viven, es una temática que ha sido ampliamente estudiada. Un ejemplo de ello es Jonathan Fox (1996), quien observó en sus estudios el desarrollo de las comunidades rurales de México para exponer la...
An Agent of Change
Ashoka is thrilled to be joining our partner @iProspect at the “ Agent of Change ” panel discussion at the 2018 Cannes Media Lions Festival. Ashoka will be joined by representatives from iProspect, Accor Hotel Group, and Ashoka Fellow Tristram Stuart to discuss the role that companies can play in...
An Agent of Change
Creating a digital economy that works for all and leveraging technology for good.
Inner Growth for Social Change
Cultivating the inner qualities of a systems change leaders through a focus on inner wellbeing and self-awareness
Summer Reading! J.P. Morgan Picks Engine of Impact for Its Annual Book List
The book Engine of Impact, Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector , which features Ashoka, is among the titles honored by placement on financial services giant J.P. Morgan's list of the 10 books it recommends to its clients for 2018. Every summer, out of the thousands of...
Introducing the Ashoka Fellows’ Bookshelf: A Reading List for Changemakers
What book should everyone read if they want to change the world? Thirty-seven years ago, Ashoka pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship and continues to identify and support leading social entrepreneurs who find creative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Today, our Fellows are...
How To Create System Change As A Social Entrepreneur
The motivation for that article came from talking to lots of social entrepreneurs about this idea of system change and there's a very common reaction to this topic and that's that people get into a defensive mode and sometimes that's because the system change is perceived as this large, big...
Is Social Entrepreneurship Being Misunderstood?
In the current issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review , Marshall Ganz, Tamara Kay and Jason Spicer make a forceful critique of the field of social entrepreneurship, going so far as referring to this body of work as an over-hyped “distraction.” The authors’ central point is that social...