Written by Felix Oldenburg, who leads Ashoka in Germany and co-leads Ashoka in Europe.
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For social entrepreneurs, a strong network like Ashoka is an irreplaceable piece of a complicated puzzle.
Written by Amy Clark, who identifies and connects Ashoka Fellows in the United States.
This is where the Ashoka Changemakers League of Intrapreneurs competition comes in.
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The series is a result of a global study CEB and Ashoka completed in fall 2012.
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More information on George Roter can be found on his Ashoka Fellow profile and at EWB.ca.
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Recycle Across America founder Mitch Hedlund was surprised when Ashoka reached out to learn more about her work.
Chloe de Roos Feinberg is a Knowledge Manager at Ashoka Changemakers.
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While Tiffany patented the Lucida diamond, a 50-facet square cut, New York's William Goldberg produced the antique-looking Ashoka variety.
Ashoka exists to help communities, and countries, and ultimately the world, to create environments where change-making and social entrepreneurship flourish.
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Ashoka gave Hedlund an identity as a social entrepreneur, a network of innovators similar to herself and validated her idea.
Since 2006, Staples Foundation and Ashoka have supported young entrepreneurs throughout the world as they work to create positive change.
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Ashoka Fellows work on the hardest problems in society from human trafficking to medical waste to saving orangutans.
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When Felipe was elected as an Ashoka Fellow he was in one country and provided services for less than 200 students.
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All three are Ashoka Fellows: Patrick Struebi of Fairtrasa, Asher Hasan of Naya Jeevan, and Kerstin Forsberg of Ocean Planet.
Hayley Darden has spent the last four years doing talent-related work at Ashoka (www.ashoka.org) and is on the Rework advisory team.
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Ashoka, who ruled the Mauryan empire, India's first, at its apogee in the third century before Christ, was a convert to Buddhism.
Ashoka provides course materials to over 800 undergraduate programs on social entrepreneurship.
Like Ashoka and Gandhi, Akbar constructed a religious ideology that served to hold together a diffuse polity as it fed his own soul.
One of them is Jonny Cohen, a high school senior, celebrated green entrepreneur, Ashoka Youth Venture award winner, and creator of GreenShields.
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Rosanne is an Ashoka Senior Fellow, a Hunt Alternatives Fund Prime Mover, and a 2001 recipient of a John D. and Catherine T.
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Sunyoung (Sonia) Park, the founder and launch director of Ashoka Korea, on how to integrate problem solving and social entrepreneurship into a broader society.
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But the demand for Ashoka U also represents the need for an educational experience that is not only affordable, but also transfers real-world skills.
The question of determining the appropriate corporate legal structure for socially-oriented businesses is a common issue facing many other Ashoka Fellows and social entrepreneurs in general.
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In late February, 650 people from 40 countries representing 150 institutions of higher education descended on San Diego to participate in the Ashoka U Exchange.
Ashoka would love to have you join future Fellow presentations.
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After a thorough research of these people, he coins the concept of Social Entrepreneurship and receives the McArthur Genius Grant of 1 million dollars with which he launches Ashoka.
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For the first time, in partnership with Ashoka, we will give visibility to social finance innovation projects that could potentially lead to the creation of new financial products.
The 2013 Ashoka Future Forum will bring together 400 of the foremost social innovators, business entrepreneurs, philanthropists and media to share their biggest problems and celebrate their most thought-provoking solutions.
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