Category Archives: Tommy Tobin
Strength in Numbers – The Importance of Campus Allies
Undergraduate and graduate students have proven to be key drivers in bringing social entrepreneurship to their campus. Yet many students feel that they are not equipped with the skills to best navigate what appears to be such a daunting challenge. … Continue reading
From The Top
Submitted by Tommy Tobin, Ashoka U Spring Associate Colleges and universities across the country are creating cultures of student social entrepreneurship at their institutions. Presidential leadership can play a key role. From Changemaker Campuses, Arizona State & Tulane Universities are … Continue reading
Email for Social Change
Submitted by Tommy Tobin, Ashoka U Spring Associate Successful changemaking begins with you. Professional and prompt communications are necessary for creating, maintaining, and expanding relationships with your peers, superiors, and stakeholders. Common Pitfalls We are faced today with a spectrum … Continue reading
Cultivating Student Social Entrepreneurship
Submitted by Tommy Tobin, Ashoka U Spring Associate Originally housed primarily in business schools, social entrepreneurship courses have spread throughout the world and throughout the college and university environment. The number of universities offering courses on social entrepreneurship has increased … Continue reading
Of Narrative and Social Entrepreneurship: A Powerful Story
Submitted by Tommy Tobin & Geoff Finger, Ashoka Spring Associates Narrative has the ability to inform, inspire, educate, and communicate. We share our vision through stories; and through these stories our experiences. Weaving common threads through public story-telling creates the … Continue reading
Socializing Social-E
Students are getting involved with social entrepreneurship more and more. Read How & Share Your Story! Continue reading
Entrepreneurial Thinking
Submitted by Tommy Tobin, Ashoka U Spring Associate Entrepreneurs are different, but do they think differently than the rest of us? Entrepreneurs As reported in Inc., a recent study by Saras Sarasvathy et al. compared the thought processes of corporate … Continue reading
Exchanging Ideas: Stories of Impact Series
Submitted by Tommy Tobin, Ashoka U Spring Associate As a community, we came to the Ashoka U Exchange with a challenge: to construct an environment that catalyzes changemaking on college and university campuses. To achieve our goal, the social sector … Continue reading
On Exchanging
Submitted by Tommy Tobin, Ashoka U Spring Associate The Ashoka U Exchange is upon us! Our Goals With about 300 attendees from 70 colleges and universities coming to Duke University this Saturday, we are ready to immerse ourselves in a … Continue reading
Empathy & Change
Submitted by Tommy Tobin & Geoff Finger, Ashoka Spring Associates What are the primary traits of Changemakers? Innovation, certainly. A restless devotion to systemic change is integral. But more elementally, what underlies both of these developed values? When one looks … Continue reading
