Exciting list of Members Creates Buzz for the White House Council on Community Solutions
Many community forums delve deep into local solutions and change the reality of an entire community. But what if those solutions also applied in another town? What if they would work all over the country? What if that solution that started in Colby Kansas would work in a community in Zagreb, Croatia...
Why Social Impact Beats a Bonus
According to the Gallup management journal, an astounding 73% of American workers are disengaged with their work. They're either "checked out," just sleepwalking through their work day, or worse, actively undermining the company and costing hundreds of billions each year. Any corporation that can...
Waiting to Take Off
It’s been 5 months into the Young Champions program, and it’s difficult to believe I’m more than halfway to the end of a journey which seems like it just started. January has been a month of exploration for me, as I work on creating a model of sustainability for the community resource centers. I’m...
Leading Women ChangemakeHERS Reveal Blueprints for Action
Celebrating the International Women’s Day Centennial Imagine a master class for social change: an academy of action where concrete advice, guidance, and direction for every level of changemaking – from the first spark of an idea to the scaling of an innovation across the globe – are shared by some...
Peace Corps and Ashoka: Celebrating Anniversaries and Collaborations
Did you know that Sargent Shriver, the dynamic force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, provided thought leadership for the creation of Ashoka as a member of the Ashoka Council? In fact, there have been many powerful points of intersection throughout the history of Peace Corps and Ashoka...
I Hope One Day to Become an Ashoka Donor Myself
If one organization has had a profound impact in Lumni´s evolution, that organization is Ashoka. When Ashoka crossed paths with Lumni and elected me a Fellow in November 2006, I had been working part time to implement my vision for five years and had succeeded in financing some 75 students. Ashoka...
Landmine Law in Israel--Celebrating Progress
The email below was recently sent to us by Ashoka Fellow Jerry White in celebration of landmark landmine legislation that was just passed in Israel. Jerry, like many of his Ashoka Fellow colleagues around the world, is actively changing policy through his tireless work, and we celebrate with him in...
Getting My Empathetic Gordon Gecko On
Can you imagine how the process of closing down a factory could possibly help extend healthcare to people in remote parts of the developing world? It sounds like a stretch, right? But this month, I have seen the link materialize before my very eyes. The earliest days of my professional life were...
Ashoka Globalizer Summit: Day 3 and Wrap-Up
The final day of the Ashoka Globalizer Summit was a chance for participants to combine the conceptual ideas they learned on Day 1 (using open source and smart networks as strategies to scale) with the practical insights they gained from Day 2 (from their one-on-one conversations with business...
Mining for Great Minds
Mining for Great Minds: a peek inside Ashoka’s process of finding and electing the world’s leading social entrepreneurs If you know only one thing about Ashoka, chances are you know about Ashoka Fellows. After all, the work of finding all-star innovators (work known as “venture,” in Ashoka speak) is...