Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) – 2015 Awardee Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD) is an interdisciplinary development lab for scaling innovations in global health. Working in partnership with USAID, SEAD mobilizes a community of fa…
Ashoka U Recognizes Inaugural Innovation Award Winners Michèle Leaman in Uncategorized • February 2, 2011 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 m…
Walking the Walk Meets Social Entrepreneurship-Speak Mihai Patru in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 20, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker…
Global Social Benefit Fellowship – 2017 Awardee Best of “Academic Learning” Global Social Benefit Fellowship is a comprehensive 9-month, field-based action research program at Santa Clara University that provides a transformative…
Why next generation? We need a new generation. Erin Krampetz in Changemaker Campus • November 22, 2011 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 Champ…
Social Innovation Fellowship & Leading Social Ventures course – 2014 Awardee The Social Innovation (SI) Fellowship provides 15-20 students with up to $4,000 to grow a social venture over the summer, supported by a year of intensive skills training, mentoring, and a community o…
Educadores Changemaker se conectan en todo México Emily Lamb in Changemaker Campus • October 14, 2020 Somos más capaces de generar un impacto cuando trabajamos juntos. Este es un principio fundamental del trabajo de los agentes de cambio y en la formación de los agentes de cambio. Change Leaders de lo…
The Leaders Disrupting Higher Education, and What We Can Learn from Them Matthew Barr in Uncategorized • January 22, 2016 In 1999, somewhere in northcentral Wisconsin, there was a boy about 8 years old who wanted to be a neurosurgeon when he grew up. He liked the thought because based on what people had told him, that wa…