How To Build The Next Generation of India's Changemakers? Ask Ashoka Fellow, Gaurang Raval
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
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...
In conversation with Ashoka Fellow, Runa Khan
Listen to the powerful conversation between Ashoka Fellow, Runa Khan and Youth Venturers
What does it take to be a ‘changemaker’?
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...
Ashoka Fellows, heroes and heroines
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...
Le parcours et l'engagement de Matthieu Dardaillon dans Carenews
Porté depuis toujours par la volonté d'être utile, Matthieu Dardaillon raconte dans Carenews son chemin personnel d'entrepreneur. Notamment fondateur de Ticket for Change, qui propose un parcours unique d'accompagnement pour des projets à impact qui souhaitent valoriser leur portée sociale et/ou...
Bill Drayton on The Big Think: Tearing Down the New Inequality
Bill Drayton, the founder and CEO of Ashoka, thinks that doing business today relies on being as prismatic and as open as possible. That's how you become, as he puts it, a "change maker." Watch the video:
Innovating to Create Health for All
Who can best create outcomes that lead to the healthiest possible lives of individuals and communities? Leading social entrepreneurs are challenging the traditional patient-provider dynamics from an empathetic and holistic perspective.
Las 3 maneras de cambiar el mundo (de las que vos podés ser parte)
Cada vez más, los consumidores y las empresas comprenden que sus acciones generan un impacto – no solo económico, sino también social, ambiental y ético - en un entorno que es integral. ¿Qué podemos hacer, desde nuestro lugar, para generar un círculo virtuoso en el que nuestro accionar ayude a...
