Tag Archives: Ashoka
Rippling Available for Sale Today
Rippling reveals proven principles that drive significant change and draws on Beverly Schwartz’s vast knowledge and experience of working with hundreds of the world’s top social change leaders. Schwartz is vice president at Ashoka, the global organization that works to … Continue reading
Linda Kay Klein about A Meaningful Career
By Brian McCollow, senior student at Arizona State University and member of the Ashoka U Live team. This is the fifth in a series of posts featuring Ashoka U Exchange participants discussing “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education.” This week we feature Linda … Continue reading
Michael Horn on Disruptive Innovation in Higher Ed: teaser for the #SocEntChat
To start the conversation about “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education” that will be held at the Exchange, Ashoka U invites you to join Michael Horn, an expert in the field, in a Twitter discussion on February 7th, 2012. As a teaser for … Continue reading
Lynn Price on Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education: Bust Out and Make It Happen!
By Danielle Barbeau, graduate student at University of San Diego and member of the Ashoka U Live team. Lynn Price, of Denver, Colorado, is an Ashoka Fellow, author of the book Vision For A Change: A Social Entrepreneur’s Insights From … Continue reading
Jane Turner and Benhür Oral, creatively incorporating social entrepreneurship in the classroom
By Brian McCollow, senior student at Arizona State University and member of the Ashoka U Live team. This is the third in a series of posts featuring Ashoka U Exchange participants discussing “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education.” This week we … Continue reading
Why next generation? We need a new generation.
By Erin Krampetz, Community Director, Ashoka U As a co-director of Ashoka’s University program, I was eager to see Ashoka’s President, Diana Wells, receive the honor of Changemaker Campus George Mason University’s inaugural Social Innovation Champion Award as part of … Continue reading
Ashoka U and TechChange Twitter Chat: Tech Innovations, Social Entrepreneurs, and Higher Ed
Submitted by John C. Townsend Do you have an idea for new models in higher education? Are you interested in what universities will look like 10, 20, and 50 years from now? Join TechChange and Ashoka U on Friday, July … Continue reading
Vote for Ashoka’s Youth Venture
Reposted from Ashoka’s Youth Venture Blog Monday, April 4 through Saturday April 9, visit Deals for Deeds and cast a vote for Ashoka’s Youth Venture! If we win, Youth Venture will be featured as the following week’s organization of choice … Continue reading
New Alliances that Unleash Huge Profits with Social Benefits
Repost from Ashoka’s Full Economic Citizenship Team – Pilar Martinez For centuries we have had two separate production and distribution systems, one business and the other social, serving virtually every human need but not talking to one another. Over the … 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
