How To Unleash Sustainable Innovation That Matters Forbes.com • August 19, 2016 As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehanshoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. A 2015 Maine Business Leader of the Year, he reports that eliminating waste and carbon has freed capital for growth, enhancing employee and customer loyalty.
Creating Effective Social Impact Leaders Beeta Ansari in Guest Bloggers, Social Innovation • December 16, 2015 Guest post by Robin Pendoley, Founder and CEO, Thinking Beyond Borders The social impact sector does a lot of harm. Often, our victims are those who we set out to support — the people and communities that are already vulnerable in our society. This is not something we like to talk about. As practitioners, funders, […]
Everyone a Teacher – Inspiration from Ashoka U’s Education Track Beeta Ansari in Exchange, Guest Bloggers • March 9, 2015 By David Castro, Ashoka Fellow Imagine… A conference room is filled with diverse leaders poised to create the future of learning—deans of major university schools of education from across the nation, researchers, school leaders, faculty, entrepreneurs and education innovators. Building on weeks of preparation, these leaders spend several days engaged in patient, reflective dialogue surfacing […]
4 Ways to Get the Worldchanging Training You Need, But Never Got Beeta Ansari in Guest Bloggers • July 24, 2014 Jessica Lax worked with the founding Ashoka U team in 2008 and is currently starting up School For Change – a new online school for changemakers. In this post she challenges organizations to take an entrepreneurial approach to training new recruits, and ongoing professional development in the citizen sector. “I feel like I’m learning to […]
A New Line of Social Enterprise Sonaly Patel in Guest Bloggers • November 20, 2012 I had a recent realization – many emerging social enterprises are coming out with similar products and services designed to create the same impact as their preceding counterparts. Many of these new “innovations” are competing only to add marginal benefit. This insight makes me stop and question whether creating social enterprise after social enterprise with similar value propositions is the best way to create social impact.
What Do Comics and Human Trafficking Have in Common? Gabriel Adibe in Guest Bloggers • November 8, 2012 For those who don’t know me. I recently graduated from the University of San Diego with a Bachelors in Sociology. I am a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. And I am a very active member of my community, focused on social issues. I just wanted to share a few exciting things. Last year several great things happened. Most exciting, I was invited to speak at the 2012 Ashoka U Exchange held at Arizona State University! I also had the privilege to meet several like-minded and awesome people!
Change the World, One Healthy Meal at a Time: Launch TABLE FOR TWO (TFT) On Your College Campus! Fumi Tosu in Guest Bloggers • January 13, 2012 Did you know that the average American consumes over 3,800 calories a day? Imagine if you could take some of those excess calories and transport them halfway across the world, to a remote village in rural Tanzania… That’s essentially what TABLE FOR TWO (TFT) does. There are approximately 1 billion people in the world who […]
Laura White on the Disruption Needed in Higher Education: Empathy Amy Holiday in Changemaker Campus, Exchange, Guest Bloggers • January 10, 2012 This is the first of a series of posts featuring Exchange participants and their understanding of “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education”. This week we will be featuring Laura White, Tulane senior student and founder of the nonprofit Swim 4 Success. When you ask Laura White about reforming higher education, she doesn’t suggest lofty bureaucratic changes. […]