Category Archives: Michele Leaman
Getting the grade: the solar decathlon, sustainability, and social impact
A few weeks ago, I caught up with John Clinton, Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy to talk about The New School’s participation in the … Continue reading
New Changemaker Campuses
University of San Diego, Technológico de Monterrey – Guadalajara, and Middlebury College to join the Changemaker Campus initiative – an elite consortium of leaders in social entrepreneurship education. Changemaker Campuses are colleges and universities collectively striving to ensure that the … Continue reading
Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship: Hybrid Partnerships Driving Community Change
Last week we had the opportunity to celebrate with George Mason University the launch of the Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship. The Center has a unique conception, emerging from a cross-sector, interdisciplinary collaboration between Deans of four of Mason’s colleges … Continue reading
Ashoka U Recognizes Inaugural Innovation Award Winners
Founded in 1980, the mission of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public focuses on the overwhelming need for a “competitive citizen sector.” Competition allows social entrepreneurs to thrive by proposing more effective approaches to solving our world’s toughest challenges, while empowering … Continue reading
Growing Changemakers – Organic and Synthetic
We need more. Not just professional, recognized social entrepreneurs, but a critical mass of competent changemakers that will tip our culture to a new way of being and acting “where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to … Continue reading
Risking and Changing Sarakasi Style
We’ve been thinking a lot about risks. Ashoka U staff member, Erin Krampetz, was interviewed on dowser.org recently, about what it means to take measured risks. And Link TV’s film contest winner titled Rising to the Top caught our attention … Continue reading
More Needles Needed
Alan Webb, who works with Laura White on the Ashoka U incubated project The Change School, posted an interesting quote on Idea Engine that led us to think about social entrepreneurship credentials. “The students that stick with the system do so … Continue reading
All aboard the Changemakers choo-choo at ASU
Originally posted on Idea exChange. Ashoka recently named Arizona State University an Ashoka U Changemaker Campus, making it the ninth institution selected for setting the standard for excellence in social entrepreneurship education. This is a group of institutions committed to … Continue reading
Write a case study and win!
We need your expertise in creating cutting-edge business cases on social enterprise. Good case studies can steer students towards social enterprise for years to come! This is an excellent opportunity: NextBillion.net is now accepting submissions for business cases for the … Continue reading
The Change School
When the Changemaker Campuses gathered last February to collaborate on how best to build their campuses into hubs of social innovation, Laura – an undergrad at Tulane University – got inspired. “What we were doing was so amazing, but not … Continue reading
