Ideas from the Fringe, Front and Center
Atlantic Monthly celebrates Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi in its Brave Thinkers Edition What do UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, and Ashoka Fellow Sakena Yacoobi have in common? They’re all among the nineteen change makers in the annual "Brave Thinkers" edition of...
TEDx Makes Learning Fun
How to describe TEDx? Inspiring. Educational. Fun. According to the New York Times, also “sexy”. A good example encompassing all these adjectives? Ashoka and Ashoka U TEDx events! In late September, the New York Times wrote an article about the power of TEDx, and we are thrilled that Ashoka U’s past...
Passo a Passo
Fourteen-year old Ingrid, in recovery from a crippling crack addiction at the Lua Nova residency in Araçoiaba, Brazil, found out that she is pregnant this past week. Two days after the news broke she ran away. The weight and terror of such an unknown future was simply too much to bear, and she,...
The Night Clinic
At 4pm, the market building begins to close. By 5, all the stalls have cleared out and the shops windows are shut, and so is the clinic. At the same time, new stalls are beginning to take over the open spaces outside the building, encroaching on anywhere that can take a stall, the street, the...
Bringing Education to Haiti: University of the People Begins Classes
Ashoka Israel Fellow Shai Reshef recently arrived in Haiti to welcome the first Haitian youth into his University of the People —the world's first tuition-free university. Over the next three years, UoPeople aims to educate 250 Haitian students, providing Haitian youth with the skills they need to...
1st video from Youth Venture's TEDxYSE is up on the web!
Watch 22-year-old Rocco Falconer's TEDx speech about his organization Planting Promise, which gives underprivileged Sierre Leoneans the opportunity to create sustainable businesses and pursue their education.
Responding to the lack of adequate, affordable childcare solutions after school hours, Chantal Mainguené has created the first integrated, scalable afterschool program in France. By mobilizing latent resources in the community, Chantal is demonstrating how it is possible to offer a high-quality...
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Ashoka Fellow Kristin Hayden on Developing the Next Generation of Global Citizens through Study Abroad
Kristin Hayden, the founder of the Seattle-based OneWorld Now! , faced her share of rejection while trying to get her global leadership organization off the ground. She spent two years trying (unsuccessfully) to raise grants. When things looked bleak, Hayden stayed on course by reminding herself of...
Announcing the Finalists of the @15 Community Impact Challenge
Ashoka’s Youth Venture and Best Buy Co., Inc. today announced the finalists of the second @15 Community Impact Challenge. Five teams of young social entrepreneurs will each receive $5,000 and five teams will be selected to receive $1,500 each from the @15 Fund to expand their local ventures. “Best...
Ashoka Fellow Jill Vialet’s Playworks featured on ABC’s Nightline
What’s play got to do with learning and safety? Everything, according to Ashoka Fellow Jill Vialet. Don’t miss this in depth feature on Playworks, which focuses on the importance of play in fostering positive behaviors and learning both inside and outside the classroom. Check out the video and full...