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Especialistas da Ashoka e Oracle participaram de evento de mentoria para impulsionar projetos sociais de cerca de 30 jovens da Grande São Paulo. Veja como foi o resultado!

Poucos empreendedores tiveram mais iniciativas de sucesso do que Richard Branson. E quem pode competir com ele em termos de estilo? Há muito tempo, Richard aplica sua energia e habilidade empreendedora para resolver problemas sociais. Inspirado por Nelson Mandela, ajudou a lançar "Os Anciãos" (The...

My interest in entrepreneurship as a tool for development began after I started a miniature golf business in Puebla Mexico. I learned a lot about business by launching that venture, but what surprised me most about the experience was how much I learned about the impact of business—about how it can...

Peace will be the flavor of the next week. The United Nation's International Day of Peace is next Friday, September 21, but things will get a little sweeter thanks to Ben & Jerry's, one of our partners (and a community favorite). They partnered with the Peace Alliance to hold a free ice cream...

Social businesses make up just 10 percent of European ventures. The European Commission wants to see more. Through the new Social Business Initiative, the Commission plans to create an ecosystem conducive to social businesses, in part by facilitating access to funding. The belief is that more...

When famine strikes, as it did last year in Somalia, international agencies begin asking for funds to feed starving and malnourished people. But where does the food itself come from? Most food aid is basically peanut butter—it’s a paste made of peanuts, dried milk, oil, sugar, vitamins and minerals...

When is impact legitimately "incalculable?" Is a limited ability to wrap metrics around your impact ever acceptable or desirable? The last decade saw the birth and mainstreaming of concepts that captivated our attention and made an indelible, if incalculable impact on our lives. The BoP initiative...

Two of the world’s most urgent tasks—protecting the environment and creating jobs—both have enormously broad public support. Politically, however, both are orphans. Why? Take the case of the environment: Its very broad, diffuse constituency presses government to impose unwelcome costs on one highly...

Am 15. September ab 17 Uhr heißen Euch vier Community Mitglieder in insgesamt vier Städten, in ihren Gärten willkommen. Gemeinsam wollen wir in spätsommerlicher Atmosphäre darüber sprechen, an welchen Veränderungen der letzten Monate wir als Ashoka Community festhalten wollen und wo wir...