Ashoka's International Blog Posts
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Mon, June 27, 2011
Ashoka business and social entrepreneurs are pioneering an innovative business-social framework called Hybrid Value Chain (HVC) that unleashes huge wealth and creates new social benefits.
We are building an HVC Global Community of leading HVC...
Submitted by on Sun, June 26, 2011
(This article is part of HFA July 2011 Newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter)Ashoka HFA will conduct a workshop with developers, citizen sector organizations, architects, designers, manufacturers and certification specialists to create a...
Submitted by on Sun, June 26, 2011
(This article is part of HFA July 2011 Newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter)
Too often affordable housing is associated with cheap materials, poor design and undesirable locations. If we truly want to address the severe housing shortage...
Submitted by on Sun, June 26, 2011
(This article is part of HFA July 2011 Newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter)Abhilash Nambudiri is our first HFA Entrepreneur, playing Ashoka’s convener role in affordable housing projects using the Hybrid Value Chain model. HFA...
Submitted by on Sun, June 26, 2011
(This article is part of HFA July 2011 Newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter)After successfully enabling partnerships to construct pilot projects for affordable housing in Ahmedabad, Housing for All developed a strategy to quickly scale up...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Thu, June 23, 2011
Believe it or not, the Young Champions’ fellowships have come to an end. The end of the program, however, hardly means the end of the Young Champions’ journeys as social entrepreneurs in the maternal health field. This program has...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Wed, June 22, 2011
Ashoka and Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world’s largest and most innovative pharmaceutical companies, yesterday announced a new global partnership: “Making More Health.”Making More Health is a three-year initiative aimed at improving health in...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Wed, June 22, 2011
How three Ashoka Fellows are empowering a generation of changemaker dads
This Father’s Day, President Obama pulled out all the stops. To highlight the important role fathers play in helping children reach their full potential, the President launched...
Submitted by on Mon, June 20, 2011
Umesh is an entrepreneur who is focused on building ventures to address problems of education for the disadvantaged in the country. Umesh will facilitate a discussion to explore struggles faced by the government in bringing education to rural areas...
Submitted by Ashoka ChangeInSight on Fri, June 17, 2011
By Duc LuuAs part of Ashoka’s new Empathy Initiative, we will begin posting periodic empathy news round-ups. Please feel free to send tips or contribute to this exciting new endeavor to build a world in which every child masters empathy by writing...
