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Submitted by Erin Fornoff on Wed, February 22, 2012
Ashoka’s Change Nation will launch officially on the morning of 23 February at the Little Museum of Dublin. It will feature a panel discussion with Change Nation Founder and Ashoka Europe Director Paul O’Hara and the Change Nation co-creators,...
Submitted by Erin Fornoff on Wed, February 22, 2012
“Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up”                   ...
Submitted by Erin Fornoff on Wed, February 22, 2012
In the lead up to Change Nation, Ashoka has recruited a team of thirty “Change Executives” to support our 50 visiting innovators in market research, stakeholder mapping, strategy development and execution. Our Change Executives were selected from...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Fri, February 17, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/17/12 Editor's note: This post was written by Fran Tarr, who produced and directed a documentary film called bethlehem to brooklyn: breaking the surface. "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Thu, February 16, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/16/12 A new partnership between the business and social worlds is set to make (positive) waves in the youth entrepreneurship movement. ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel and mining company with a...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Tue, February 14, 2012
Submitted by: Ashoka 30th Birthday on 02/14/12 This story was submitted to the Ashoka 30th Birthday Card by Jyoti Sharma, the founder of FORCE, and an Ashoka Fellow from India since 2009.When I met Bill Drayton for the first time, I was...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Tue, February 14, 2012
Submitted by: Ashoka 30th Birthday on 02/14/12 This story was submitted to the Ashoka 30th Birthday Card by Jyoti Sharma, the founder of FORCE, and an Ashoka Fellow from India since 2009.When I met Bill Drayton for the first time, I was...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Mon, February 13, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/13/12 A conversation with Sonali Ojha, Ashoka Fellow and founder of the Dreamcatchers Foundation When the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami struck at the end of 2004, hundreds of relief...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Mon, February 13, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/13/12 A conversation with Sonali Ojha, Ashoka Fellow and founder of the Dreamcatchers Foundation When the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami struck at the end of 2004, hundreds of relief...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Fri, February 10, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/10/12 Editor's note: This post was written by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry, contributing editor at Ashoka Changemakers®, and originally featured on the Huffington Post. For 60 grand a year at an...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Fri, February 10, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/10/12 The Gates Foundation consolidated its operations with the opening of a half-billion dollar campus in the heart of Seattle last summer. New to the campus this spring is the Bill & Melinda Gates...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Thu, February 9, 2012
Submitted by: Ashoka 30th Birthday on 02/09/12 This story was submitted to the Ashoka 30th Birthday Card by Aditi Shekar, who has been working with Ashoka nearly four years, first to build the staff pool and now with Ashoka's Changemakers program...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Thu, February 9, 2012
Submitted by: Ashoka 30th Birthday on 02/09/12 This story was submitted to the Ashoka 30th Birthday Card by Aditi Shekar, who has been working with Ashoka nearly four years, first to build the staff pool and now with Ashoka's Changemakers program...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Thu, February 9, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/09/12 Editor's note: This article was written by Amy Holiday, member of the AshokaU Live Team The landscape of education reform in the United States is turbulent, and there may be no idea more radical...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Thu, February 9, 2012
Submitted by: John Converse Townsend on 02/09/12 Editor's note: This article was written by Amy Holiday, member of the AshokaU Live Team The landscape of education reform in the United States is turbulent, and there may be no idea more radical...