Cracking the Hardest Nut – Measuring the impact of your changemaking initiative Ali Fraenkel in Ashoka U Team, Best Practices, Impact Measrement • May 24, 2018 “It is hard to measure what we care about so we end up measuring what we can, this isn’t impact.” – Willy Oppenheim, Founder and Executive Director of Omprakash One element I love about Ashoka’s work is the eagerness to identify and embrace patterns in emerging fields — and translate these patterns to society in […]
2017: A Year in Review Marina Kim in Ashoka U Team • January 7, 2018 Dear Friends, As 2017 comes to a close, we wanted to step back and reflect on the past year. It has been a year of many changes and much strife in the world. Increasing levels of polarization and marginalization point to broken social relations and growing distrust between people and across sectors. Ashoka believes that much […]
3 Critical Questions Changemaker Learning Outcomes Can Help Us Answer Hattie Duplechain in Ashoka U Team, Resources, Uncategorized • November 29, 2017 What does it mean to prepare a student to be a changemaker? At Ashoka U we wrestle with this question all the time and see supporting that line of questioning as a key part of what we do. To that end, we believe it is important to help educators identify and develop learning outcomes for […]
Welcome Jess – Our New Growth & Partnerships Director Beeta Ansari in Ashoka U Team • July 17, 2017 Jess Lax recently moved into the role of Growth & Partnerships Director with Ashoka U. Let us introduce you! What drew you to work with Ashoka U? My university experience sparked my first journey as a social entrepreneur. I did a field semester in Kenya which led me to start The Otesha Project. I then […]