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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...

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...

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...

Social entrepreneurship is evolving into a global movement, and it’s rendering the standard nonprofit/for-profit dichotomy obsolete. Now, new legal structures and certifications are being built to accommodate for businesses with embedded social missions. Leading the way in this movement is the B...

The respected economist John Kay dedicated one of his regular columns in The Financial Times last week to the ideal of the good corporation. His main line of argument was about the relationship between politics and business but what caught my eye was Kay’s definition of the "good" corporation: “The...

From one day to the next, our environments are changing and our global community is struggling to keep up with the high-rate of change. More than ever, today, the world needs changemakers and social entrepreneurs who are dedicated to tackling problems with the greater good of everyone always in mind...

Nota dell'editore: Questo articolo è stato scritto da Avery Pagán e Dan Schiff che sono parte del team dell'Ashoka Support Network. Leggi l'articolo completo su Forbes.com, dove è apparso la prima volta. Il successo dell’Ashoka Support Network (ASN) si fonda sull’idea che la filantropia attiva debba...

Want to see change in action? Just look to our nation’s young people. Six young entrepreneurs have been selected as finalists in the Banking on Youth competition sponsored by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) Foundation, Ashoka’s Youth Venture, and member banks across the country. The...