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"The strength of our global society depends on the work of passionate innovators who can respond to the needs of our communities," said Timothy J. McClimon, president of American Express Foundation.
"These 45 young entrepreneurs have channeled their empathy and commitment to create solutions that are currently changing lives throughout North America."
"In partnership with American Express, Ashoka Changemakers recognizes the next generation of social entrepreneurs that will work to solve some of the world's most critical challenges."
"The 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."
"Ashoka Fellow Merche Garcia Villatoro brings together local governments, schools, parent organizations, and citizen organizations to create locally-managed youth centers. At the centers, young people identify community challenges and then work together to propose and implement solutions. Through these early changemaking experiences, Spain’s youth are becoming engaged and active citizens capable of being leaders in today’s world."
"Every parent who takes the time to reflect on how their children’s changemaker experience can play an enormous role in creating a generation of leaders who can act with empathy to solve shared problems."
Kyle Zimmer’s nonprofit has found a way to deliver quality books to poor children — in a profitable way.
"A child’s imagination, when paired with experiential learning opportunities, can be a powerful tool to confront global issues in new and innovative ways."
"Philips and Ashoka’s Youth Venture have partnered to create a pipeline of changemakers -- driven, entrepreneurial problem solvers -- who have the ideas, leadership, empathy and team skills to create new opportunities and respond to threats."
"I believe that small changes can set off chain reactions, especially when large organisations with a lot of influence are concerned. Last week, at the inaugural League of Intrapreneurs Awards hosted by Ashoka Changemakers, we heard that these small changes are heralding a quiet revolution."
"The founder of the Ashoka movement reflects on 18th century business, social progress since the 1980s – and what his godmother thinks of his career."
"It is so exciting to announce the newest members of the Changemaker Schools Network, a community of leading elementary schools that teach children at their school communities to be changemakers: empathic leaders, capable of working in teams to solve shared problems."
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"In our world of both exponential growth and accelerating innovation, systems of repetition are doomed to collapse. We need to make radical changes to the frameworks in which we operate. The world is now an interconnected neural network, where problems are considered shared and where solutions are crowdsourced—we’re no longer living in silos."
Ashoka Fellow and healthcare entrepreneur, Krystian Fikert, works in Ireland to treat mental health, regardless of income, at his social enterprise MyMind.
"Who Cares?" is an eye-opening film that documents Ashoka Fellows and other social entrepreneurs who are behind a movement of changemaking. The film introduces audiences to Ashoka’s very own Bill Drayton and other inspiring outliers who are determined to make social impact and inspire people to do the same."
In a world where we tend to think of business in terms of the bottom line and financial metrics, a discussion of the role of empathy in business seems like an indulgence. But is it really an indulgence, or is it a marketplace imperative instead?
"Madeleine is being honored for her peaceful changemaker curriculum, developed with the kindergarten teaching team and in conjunction with 8th grade teachers to teach students about the concepts of courage and empathy and their place in promoting human rights. Madeleine uses these big ideas to talk about race in her kindergarten classroom, introducing the peaceful social change brought about by such leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr.—inspiring her students to become changemakers, too."
"Finding a job is so 20th century. That is why young people today need to be more “innovation ready” than “college ready."
How 8-year-old Loulou and her friends are showing empathy at her school through friendship.
"Think you have solutions for the world's biggest challenges? Verizon is offering $10 million in prizes for innovators and companies who propose the most innovative solutions utilizing Verizon’s unique combination of network, device and platform technologies to help reinvent and empower the three core areas of healthcare, education and sustainability.
"Today, Ashoka would like to introduce you to Saru Jayaraman (@SaruJayaraman). Saru directs UC Berkeley’s Food Labor Research Center and is the co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United), a non-profit fighting to improve wages and working conditions for the nation’s restaurant workforce."
Amit Dodani, a 15-year-old from Los Angeles, CA, talks about 'My Name My Story'--his youth-run leadership program to inspire the next generation of leaders.
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See the list of 45 innovators that have been recognized by American Express and Ashoka as future leaders of social change.