J.P. Morgan Mentoring Program: “Experiencing Social Entrepreneurship”
Launched in 2016, “Experiencing Social Entrepreneurship” is an annual program that matches social entrepreneurs from Ashoka’s network of Fellows with teams of mentors from J.P. Morgan. This program is aimed on one side at supporting leading innovators to tackle their most pressing organization...
Systems Change: A High-Level Summary
We use the term system change to describe an outcome as well as an approach to social change. In terms of an outcome , we describe a change as systemic if the way a system operates shifted and as a result produces a more positive outcome itself . A system change follows a change in the root causes...
Hear Ashoka Arab Fellows Describe What the Fellowship Means to Them
In January 2017, Ashoka Arab World convened 10 Fellows for a retreat in Fayoum, Egypt, where they had the opportunity to reflect on their place in the Fellowship Community.
Ashoka Changemaker Forum
[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...
Bacolod-based social enterprise wins P3.9M grant from Australia
Zhihan Lee Ashoka Fellow since aoû 2017 Philippines Bagosphere 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...
Fourteen People Inspiring a Brighter Future
Bozeman, Montana. Provo, Utah. Navajo Nation. Baltimore, Maryland. Right now, across America, social innovators are taking on our biggest challenges with visionary thinking. Where others see problems, they see the spark of a new idea. They dare to try a different way forward. And they don’t give up...
Learning to Live in a Team-of-Teams World
In 2013, Bill Drayton published an SSIR article called “ A Team of Teams World .” Drayton, the founder and current chair of Ashoka, painted a picture of an emerging future in which shifts in how people work will have a profound effect on how organizations operate. “We are moving rapidly into a world...
Inaugural Grunin Prize for Social Entrepreneurship Awarded at NYU Law
NEW YORK, June 6—At a ceremony at NYU School of Law yesterday evening, a project submitted by the law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) was named winner of the inaugural Grunin Prize for social entrepreneurship. The prize recognizes the variety and impact of lawyers’ participation in the ways in...
To Reach Transformative Scale, Transform the Conversation
"There is no limit to what we can achieve, though, once we stop worrying about who gets credit. Year Up will never be the answer on its own, no matter how big we get, because scaling impact is much bigger than scaling an enterprise. Scaling impact requires being humble enough to know we can't do it...