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Barangay Resilience Exchange (Day 1)

Barangay Rx is an interactive exchange on community-driven innovation for resilience. Designed by Ashoka and Cebuana Lhuillier to go beyond the one-way information download typical of forums, Barangay Rx actively connects barangay leaders and LGUs, with potential enablers and supporters of community...

Barangay Resilience Exchange (Day 2)

Barangay Resilience Exchange (Day 3)

An Uncommon Gathering, for a Common Agenda: Affordable Housing at the BoP

What do CEMEX, one of the largest cement manufactures in the world, Terra Nova, a private company in Brazil that negotiates land rights for illegal urban squatters; BRAC, the world's largest NGO; and the Inter-American Development Bank all have in common? They are all powerful organizations that...

How Fluid Teams Create Good Business

Allowing an organization to remain competitive and relevant.

From Standing Rock to Pine Ridge Reservation Community Sustainability: Ashoka Fellow NickTilsen

One of the Dakota Access Pipeline's most devoted protestors is making his strongest stand back in his hometown. On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Nick Tilsen, a 34-year-old member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and founding executive director of the Thunder Valley Community...

Welcome Change: Communities solving homelessness

Ashoka Fellow Rosanne Haggerty’s Community Solutions/Built for Zero is a network of 80+ communities across the U.S. – all sizes and political persuasions - committed to ending chronic homelessness. They hold each other accountable, share pain points and best strategies, use real-time data, and...

Charlene Lea

Ashoka Fellow since Aug 2011

South Africa

HLGC NPC

During a time of crude home repossessions after loan default and resulting widespread payment boycotts, Charlene developed a vital intermediary between hostile lenders and borrowers. Armed with deep insights into the concerns of both groups, her Home Loan Guarantee Company (HLGC) created innovative...

Annys Darkwa

Ashoka Fellow since Dec 2012

United Kingdom

Rhondda Hub for Veterans

Annys Darkwa has identified that stable, quality housing is a key linchpin in the cycle of re-offending, and she is solving this public sector problem with a private sector solution.

Erzsébet Szekeres

Ashoka Fellow since Jan 1998

Hungary

Equal Chances Foundation / Egyenlő Esélyekért Alapítvány

Erzsébet Szekeres has created a nationwide program for training, employing and housing disabled adults. As a result of her efforts, her hometown has become a principle locus of activity for the disabled in Hungary.