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India, with an average age of 29, will be the youngest country in the world by 2020. But are its youth ready to lead change

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...

During the presidential campaign of 2008, Barack Obama, between cheers and roars, gave a speech in front of a crowd in Chicago on Super Tuesday, the presidential primary elections in February, with a message that was clear and simple: “We are the change we seek.” Obama, known to be a fierce orator...

“Bugsay hangtod mabuang! (Paddle until you lose yourself!)” This is the battle cry of the Philippine Accessible Disability Services Adaptive Dragon Boat Racing Team. Composed of amputees, Deaf, Blind, and polio survivors, they are the country’s first cross-disability adaptive team. Of...

Three “changemakers” in the Philippines were inducted as Ashoka fellows in Taguig City on Wednesday night, bringing to nine the number of people in the country who are part of the world’s largest and most prestigious network of social innovators. The newest additions to the elite group are Amina...

“'Something happened',” Amina Evangelista Swanepoel pauses. “It was always how they explained their pregnancy: ‘My parents were away and my boyfriend came over and something happened and now I’m pregnant’.” Amina is talking about the female students of her mother, Susan Evangelista...

The organization was named after the Indian emperor Ashoka, a good historical example of a social innovator. Since the organization’s main purpose is to develop a changemaking culture, looking for social innovators and helping them reach their full potential is one of its important functions. The...

As history itself would attest, there’s no doubting the fact that the team who managed U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2008 “Obama for America” Presidential Campaign ran it like a well-oiled machine. Interestingly enough, as an exclusive Inc. Southeast Asia interview with its Chief Operating Officer...

For the next three weeks, as part of my commemoration of the People Power Revolution of 1986, I will write about heroes and heroines, the contemporary ones. For this column, with the help of colleague Mika Ortega, I write about Ashoka Fellows of the Philippines, a group of changemakers I work with...