Ashoka Fellow Dana Mortenson: Building Empathy Through World Savvy

A dialogue with Ashoka Fellow Dana Mortenson, Founder and CEO of World Savvy, a nonprofit with a mission to prepare the next generation of leaders to learn, work and thrive as responsible global citizens in the 21st century and to support systemic change in K-12 education to provide every student in every classroom with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to be leaders and changemakers in their diverse communities, locally and globally. World Savvy has grown from serving 90 students and 20 teachers in their first year to reaching more than 250,000 youth and 2000 teachers over their nine-year history from three offices nationally: San Francisco, Minneapolis-St.Paul and New York.

World Savvy on Facebook
Dana Mortenson on LinkedIn 

Ashoka Fellow Darell Hammond: KaBOOM! Builds Community Across America Through Healthy Play

A dialogue with Ashoka Fellow Darell Hammond, CEO and Founder of KaBOOM!, a national organization with a mission to build great play spaces through the participation and leadership of communities. KaBOOM! dreams of an America in which every child has a place to play within walking distance. KaBOOM! has served millions of children by providing them with places to play and explore in their own neighborhoods. Through community partnerships, KaBOOM has built more than 2,200 playgrounds, mapped over 90,000 places to play, and successfully advocated for play policies in hundreds of cities across the nation.

KaBOOM! on Facebook
Darell Hammond on LinkedIn