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A Ashoka Global pediu para a nossa Rede enviar sugestões de livros que todo Changemakers deveriam ler. Essa é a tradução para português de The Fellow's Bookshelf. Aproveite!!

There has been a recognition and identification that the value systems that drive and underpin the development efforts by all of the stakeholders moves towards viewing the world holistically beyond our human world, acknowledging interconnectedness, embracing plurality, a resilient and sustainable...

Now in its 40th year, the Ashoka Fellowship has supported and enabled close to 4,000 leading social innovators from 92 countries. Ashoka Philippines is proud to welcome three new Fellows who are working for the benefit of all Filipinos - Scott Stiles of Fair Employment Foundation; Ben Abadiano of...

Ashoka fellow Shafqat Munir Ahmad’s organization Journalists for Democracy and Human Rights (JDHR) has educated over 1200 journalist to incorporate social issues into mainstream media. The success of JDHR led Shafqat to create a new initiative this year called the Infochange News and Features...

The session at the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) Conference will give an overview of the responses and concrete needs of support of social innovators related to the Covid-19 pandemic, while extending the conversation to building general resilience for other crises that social...

In their recent piece “Supportive housing can curb homelessness in our own backyard,” US Fellow Rosanne Haggerty and her co-author Martha Kegel draw attention to a housing controversy taking place in New Orleans. Kegel’s organization UNITY wants to transform an abandoned building into “supportive...

Atlantic Monthly celebrates Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi in its Brave Thinkers Edition What do UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, and Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi have in common? They’re all among the nineteen change makers in the annual "Brave Thinkers" edition of...

Mexican social entrepreneurs Carlos Cruz was admittedly suspicious of big business when a group from Danone SA sought his help training low-income women to sell yogurt on the street. For six months, their teams met in neutral locations, hashing out how Cruz might adapt a life- and job-skills program...

Kristin Hayden, the founder of the Seattle-based OneWorld Now!, faced her share of rejection while trying to get her global leadership organization off the ground. She spent two years trying (unsuccessfully) to raise grants. When things looked bleak, Hayden stayed on course by reminding herself of...