The Changemaker Effect
Henry De Sio describes the key to success in an era of explosive social change
Rebooting Our Politics and Schools to Engage Young People
It’s a paradigm shift they feel happening under their feet
New Paradigm for Leadership – Everyone Leads
See the World Differently – Doing Differently
A Team of Teams World
The rate of change has been accelerating exponentially since 1700 at least. So has the number of people causing change. This acceleration also applies (and I believe this is especially important) to the number of combinations, and combinations of combinations, of changemakers collaborating.
The...
Remembering Ashoka India Fellow Nitin More
It is with deep sorrow and regret that we inform your that one of our very own, Nitin More, passed away on the 26th of January 2011. Nitin was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2009 for the wonderful work he did with women living in the slums of Dharavi, Mumbai. He set up an organization, LEARN Mahila...
A Trade Off? Liberal Learning & Professional Skills
Last week, Tom Ehrlich—Professor at the Stanford School of Education and formerly Senior Scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching—shared insights from his forthcoming book Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession as part of Ashoka U’s...
Building Experience from Different Interactions
Working with the Birthing Project and participating in different events has helped me to see many different perspectives. It has been a busy month with different events and activities in Birthing Project and in New Orleans. One of the big events we were busy organizing was a baby shower. It is not a...
Peer Educators, Myths, and World AIDS Day
1 in 4 sex workers in Bali are suffering from HIV. And those are the ones that have already been tested, not the host of others that have not. That is quite a large percentage, but these women have been tested, and many are being treated. The real problem lies in the housewives and the newborns...
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...