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Bacolod Startup Wins Php3.9M for Training Disadvantaged Youth to Become Skilled Workers

Zhihan Lee

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017

Philippines

Bagosphere

Bacolod-based social enterprise Bagosphere won the top prize of 100,000 Australian dollars (Php3.9 million) last April 19 in Frontier Innovators, a search for innovative businesses in the Asia-Pacific by the Australian government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Bagosphere...

How BagoSphere is navigating the funding world — and succeeding

Zhihan Lee

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017

Philippines

Bagosphere

“People give to people, not necessarily to causes, especially in the beginning. So it’s about making a personal connection, then understanding, and communicating.” — BagoSphere CEO Zhihan Lee Lee explains that BagoSphere has a “hybrid for-profit and nonprofit model” — meaning they...

Bacolod-based social enterprise wins P3.9M grant from Australia

Zhihan Lee

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2017

Philippines

Bagosphere

Bacolod-based social enterprise BagoSphere has bagged the top prize at Frontier Innovators, an initiative of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. BagoSphere, which provides programs that prepare disadvantaged youth for a better future, has just won AU$100,000 or P3.9...

Top quality, peer-reviewed online education & skills training for free! Winner of the World Innovation Summit Education award

Mike a serial social entrepreneur, Ashoka Fellow, and Harvard MBA who has previously created successful internet-based companies in telecoms and finance as well as online education, has had the challenges of accessing education imprinted on him from an early age. The first of his family to attend...