[Seats are fully booked. No further registrations. Do follow us on our Facebook page for further details about the event.] Celebrating the first-ever Ashoka Fellows election in Malaysia and Singapore, the inaugural Ashoka Changemaker Forum will mobilise and convene change leaders from across the...
As part of the nationwide Unlocking ₵hange Challenge, Ashoka and BNY Mellon have been searching the United States for innovations that actively increase financial wellbeing for the communities and individuals who need it most. The goal of the competition is to uncover and identify ideas, programs...
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...
“People give to people, not necessarily to causes, especially in the beginning. So it’s about making a personal connection, then understanding, and communicating.” — BagoSphere CEO Zhihan Lee Lee explains that BagoSphere has a “hybrid for-profit and nonprofit model” — meaning they...
Bacolod-based social enterprise BagoSphere has bagged the top prize at Frontier Innovators, an initiative of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. BagoSphere, which provides programs that prepare disadvantaged youth for a better future, has just won AU$100,000 or P3.9...