This is the 2st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to the year ahead. Amy Clark, the U.S. Fellow Selection ...
Ashoka’s Founder and CEO Bill Drayton recently spoke to Dowser about a new approach to problem solving - collaborative entrepreneurship. By pooling together hundreds of entrepreneurs (and their passion, innovation, and zeal) who are working on issues pertaining to young people and children, ...
Large-scale global initiatives can be challenging to interpret on a local level, especially when they involve goals for children and education. Deport-es para Compartir seeks to render the UN Millennium Goals for Mexican schoolchildren through physical activities to build students’ capacities for local ...
Most 17 year-olds are focused on hanging out with friends, sports, getting into college, or their summer vacation plans. Then there are those exceptional ones who can’t wait until adulthood to get their ideas off the ground. Ashoka’s Youth Venture program has just ...
Since 1981, Ashoka has been providing financial and professional support to innovators intent on changing the world. To celebrate Ashoka’s 30th year in catalyzing social change, the organization is hosting the Ashoka Forum 2011 on May 26 at Toronto’s MaRS Centre. Go to ...
Growing up Muslim in Chicago, Eboo Patel was familiar with faith-based tension from an early age, and has watched as jihad entered the cultural lexicon and Islam became synonymous with terrorism. He longed to reconcile differences between religions as a means of creating ...
Tim Carpenter, founder and executive director of EngAGE, believes in the potential for continuing education and intellectual growth within senior living centers. EngAGE offers programs in arts, wellness and intergenerational contact in 15 senior apartment communities in southern California, reaching more than 2,000 ...
Foster care kids don’t get many breaks. Imagine being abandoned by or forcibly separated from your parents, and then having to adjust to life in a new family or within an impersonal, bureaucratic system Some 30,000 young people age out of foster care ...
Aleta Margolis, founder and executive director of the Center for Inspired Teaching, believes all kids have an innate desire to learn. She also believes our schools are beating it out of them. As a teacher, Margolis rejected the idea of trying to motivate ...
Kristin Hayden, the founder of the Seattle-based OneWorld Now!, faced her share of rejection while trying to get her global leadership organization off the ground. She spent two years trying (unsuccessfully) to raise grants. When things looked bleak, Hayden stayed on course by ...