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Every conversation I have about social entrepreneurship is the most important conversation I have ever had. With the movement poised for exponential growth and with all stakeholders choosing proactively to take a seat at the table, conversations in this space tend to flow in one of two directions...

Ashoka’s Youth Venture and Best Buy Co., Inc. today announced the finalists of the second @15 Community Impact Challenge. Five teams of young social entrepreneurs will each receive $5,000 and five teams will be selected to receive $1,500 each from the @15 Fund to expand their local ventures. “Best...

I am excited to share this new essay in the continuing series by US Fellow David Castro. Enjoy! During the past several months, it's been a great pleasure to do some work with the team at the “Ashoka U” initiative thinking about best practices in creating educational programs that develop young...

Ashoka Fellow Andrés Martínez Fernández’s organization, Enlace Hispano Americano de Salud (EHAS), is group of brilliant engineers committed to using technology to improve health outcomes for people in very remote parts of Latin America. I have spent the better part of my first month tying to...

In 2009 Starbucks partnered with Ashoka's Youth Venture to support 60 new Youth Venturers which involved over 1,000 young people creating change in their communities. Today Starbucks.com launched a video featuring one of those Youth Venturers, Alex Lek from Seattle, and his Blockrockers B-boy crew...

How to describe TEDx? Inspiring. Educational. Fun. According to the New York Times, also “sexy”. A good example encompassing all these adjectives? Ashoka and Ashoka U TEDx events! In late September, the New York Times wrote an article about the power of TEDx, and we are thrilled that Ashoka U’s past...

At 4pm, the market building begins to close. By 5, all the stalls have cleared out and the shops windows are shut, and so is the clinic. At the same time, new stalls are beginning to take over the open spaces outside the building, encroaching on anywhere that can take a stall, the street, the...