Ashoka

🎙 A must-listen podcast featuring Ashoka's CEO and Founder Bill Drayton from The Innovator's Journey. #Ashoka #changemakers

We have the power to influence new ways of decision-making inside our organizations that prioritize a thriving society and planet. This requires changing the underlying architecture that guides how decisions are made in the first place. Ashoka Changemaker Companies has partnered up with Unblock, an organizational change consultancy, to explore embedding sustainability and societal impact into core business. Together, we explore three areas of an organization's underlying decision-making architecture that can be "hacked" to guide decisions at scale: - organizational strategy: identify trade-offs to set priorities - measurements: embed non-financial metrics - governance: include underrepresented voices at the table (yes, that includes social entrepreneurs!) A world where everyone feels powerful to contribute to positive impact requires optimizing our organizations. We can't tackle new, complex problems with old ways of working! Read the full article in The CEO Magazine Global to learn more and tell us how you are doing it. https://lnkd.in/erSr7rKj

When, on 15 March 2020, 1,800 New York City schools went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 1.1 million students were expected to stay at home. Within days, the city’s Department of Education procured 321,000 iPads for children without the means for digital learning at home. Then, within a very short time, parents and teachers at all schools agreed to trust each other about who was going to be present at school and when.    Cities should always be at the forefront of true participation, where all are capable of contributing to solving the challenges around them.    Read Sascha Haselmayer’s* full article in The CEO Magazine Global, and join us at the #ChangemakerSummit for more deep dive on #trueparticipation.     *Ashoka Fellow, founder of City Mart, and partner at Ashoka Germany.     https://lnkd.in/dsAMkp5T  

Launching, leading and growing a social venture can be challenging, and navigating legal complexities is often a hurdle facing innovators and social entrepreneurs. Some of the most common questions we see our #AshokaFellows asking include, How do I form a new legal entity in a new country? What are the legal implications of some of the most common financing mechanisms? Ongoing, we'll be sharing legal resources for our Ashoka Fellows and social entrepreneurs through our pro-bono partnership with the Association of Pro Bono Counsel - APBCo. If you're navigating the legal complexities of your social venture, stay tuned.

Rescue rats, insurance pilot in India & toys that are color-blind accessible

Scaling a social innovation and growing a business don’t follow the same dynamics. Scaling a #socialinnovation frequently means aiming for systems change. 🚀 Yesterday, we hosted an introductory workshop with our partner Steelcase on what systems change is and the importance of deeply understanding the root causes of social problems in order to create deep, equitable, and lasting positive #impact. Are you also interested in learning about #systemschange in practice? Join our masterclass: https://lnkd.in/dYhPVqep And check out our self-paced and facilitated learning journeys here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dSztXcF3 

Read insights in Forbes from Stephanie Brobbey in conversation with Njideka U. Harry on how wealth holders can build a regenerative economy. #AshokaFellows #WelcomeChange Read the interview: https://lnkd.in/gn9QHSVW

Broadband may be invisible but it sure matters for basic connectivity and a range of essential functions, from natural resource management to disaster preparedness to health care and participation in the economy and democracy. Explore all of this with Matthew Rantanen (Cree, Finnish & Norwegian), a new Ashoka Fellow who is building up an Indigenous workforce of IT technicians and broadband experts (described below) committed to closing the access gap and extending high-speed broadband to their communities in the U.S. Check the full convo with Sascha Meinrath here: https://lnkd.in/gS42TZ2D #AshokaFellows #WelcomeChange

Even as AI dominates the tech conversation, some communities in the U.S. and elsewhere are working diligently and creatively to secure high-speed internet. On June 26 come meet Matthew Rantanen who partners with Indigenous communities to address broadband infrastructure gaps and pioneer solutions. Speaking with Matthew will be technology policy expert Sascha Meinrath, a longtime collaborator. #AshokaFellows #WelcomeChange RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gidaiVyY

“By no way can an organization or an individual address all the existing challenges by themselves. They need to open up, collaborate, and empower more and more people to be changemakers.” 🎬 In this new short film, we hear from 12 Ashoka Fellows and their co-workers on a #systemschange journey to scale up their impact and drive #socialinnovation forward toward a more just, sustainable world: https://lnkd.in/dkC7e2z7 Dive into on the Dela programme, co-created by Ashoka & #IKEASocialEntrepreneurship and meet all the participants 👉 https://lnkd.in/d4jMrNX6 Save Philippine Seas Anna Oposa Agustina Besada Unplastify Ella Peinovich Powered by People (PBP) Evariste AOHOUI Jenny Lindström Beijar Our Normal - designing inclusion together Jose Manuel Moller Algramo Raghda El Ebrashi, PhD Alashanek Ya Balady Association for Sustainable Development Rajendra Joshi Saath Charitable Trust Thorkil Sonne Square Foundation Uygar Özesmi Good4Trust.org Rafael Rincón Magro Fundación Gastronomía Social Gabriela Agustini Olabi Åsa Skogström Feldt Kim Humby Santiago Del Giudice Stella Printezi Tina Molund Constança Aragão Ina Bogdanova Akash Bhalerao Lucía Tornero Celia Sánchez-Valladares Eda YURT Maria Zapata