Estante Ashoka - Um lista de livros para Changemakers!
A Ashoka Global pediu para a nossa Rede enviar sugestões de livros que todo Changemakers deveriam ler. Essa é a tradução para português de The Fellow's Bookshelf. Aproveite!!
A Mobile Commerce Approach to Poverty Alleviation
The Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Microfranchising initiative was selected as one of the winners of the Ashoka Changemakers Powering Economic Opportunity: Create a World that Works competition, a partnership with eBay Foundation. As a result, eBay Foundation is now exploring how to continue working...
What's the Endgame of Knowledge?
Once, long ago, social change meant “give a man a fish.” Then we figured out that “teach a man to fish” could be more lasting. Innovative knowledge entrepreneurs in rural areas of India, Africa and Latin America are taking things one step further. The latest direction would best be summarized as,...
Living Buildings: Ashoka Fellow Jason McLennan's Architectural Revolution
UPDATE: Since we posted this article, the Living Building Challenge was selected as the winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual international design challenge awarding $100K to support the development and accelerated implementation of strategies that have the potential to advance human...
Paul Bradley's Co-Op Model Makes Affordable Home Ownership a Walk in the Park
Picture a trailer park. What do you see? Mobile homes resting lazily on cinder blocks? Unkempt lawns crowded by an assortment of rundown property? Fair enough; that's an accurate image of some of the 50,000 trailer parks around the United States, but that's not what Ashoka Fellow Paul Bradley sees...
Who Will Win the Duel? - Building Full Information Citizenship
Editor's note: This post was written by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, contributing editor at Ashoka Changemakers®, and originally featured on the Idea exChange Blog. It's a duel, quite possibly to the death. The bad guys: Censorship, surveillance, sabotage, fraud. The good guys: Freedom, access to...
Growing Aid Where it Matters Most
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...
Ashoka’s Globalizers are Scaling-up Mobile Technology Solutions to Reach 7 Billion
There is nothing more powerful than pattern-changing ideas in the hands of leading social entrepreneurs (as Ashoka CEO Bill Drayton reminds us). The greatest challenge in today’s rapidly changing world is figuring out how to scale-up these good ideas. To discover disruptive innovations with great...
Empreendedora social e Fellow da Ashoka Brasil, Adriana Barbosa integra novo time de líderes globais
Fundação Ford investirá 50 milhões de dólares nos próximos 10 anos para apoiar soluções inovadoras que rompam com a desigualdade
Empowering Changemakers During the Pandemic
A New Narrative for Challenging Times Countries across Europe have started to turn the corner on COVID-19. But the pandemic’s effects will be felt long after lockdowns have ended. Our understanding of ‘normal’ has been shaken. Many of us feel exposed and vulnerable — economically, socially...