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A dialogue with Echoing Green Fellow Neil Buddy Shah, Founding Partner of IDInsight, an organization that helps clients in developing countries generate and use rigorous evidence to improve their social impact. IDInsight works with governments, NGOs and others investors to create and implement large-scale interventions so that money and manpower go to programs that actually work.
In part of two of her interview, Ashoka Fellow Alisa Del Tufo describes her work in Threshold Collaborative, focusing on the connection between empathy, narrative and sustainable, community-based change. Alisa describes the innovative programs and services offered through Threshold, including Transforming Stories, StoryMatters, DreamCatcher and Disruptive Practice.
Threshold Collaborative on Facebook
Alisa Del Tufo on LinkedIn
A dialogue with Ashoka Fellow Alisa Del Tufo focusing on her pioneering career addressing family violence and the role of empathy in community engagement and empowerment.
Threshold Collaborative on Facebook
Alisa Del Tufo on LinkedIn
A dialogue with Marina Kim, cofounder and executive director of Ashoka U, about Ashoka's groundbreaking initiative building a movement to support social entrepreneurship and changemaking in the nation's leading institutions of higher education.
A dialogue with Judy Goggin, Vice-President at Encore, a national nonprofit organization building a movement to make it easier for millions of people to pursue second acts for the greater good. Encore calls these performances "encore careers" – jobs that combine personal meaning, continued income and social impact – in the second half of life. Judy leads Encore’s College Initiative, a program that encourages the nation’s colleges to create innovative pathways toward encore careers in health care, education, social services and the environment.
A dialogue with Ashoka Fellow Patrick Struebi, founder and CEO of Fairtrade South America, or Fairtrasa. Fairtrasa is the largest fair-trade, small-scale farmer organization in Latin America. Fairtrasa’s mission is to support small farmers and their communities by connecting them with the opportunity to sell their products in international markets. Patrick's work is revolutionizing the fair-trade movement by restructuring the supply chains affecting small producers, and also reinvesting in their communities in ways that help lift them out of poverty while supporting environmental and organic values.
A dialogue with Ashoka Fellow Jake Shapiro, founder and CEO of PRX (Public Radio Exchange), an award-winning public media company with a mission to harness technology to bring significant stories to millions of people. PRX is an online platform and marketplace where listeners, producers and stations come together to improve public radio and public media.
A dialogue with Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive, a nonprofit with a mission to help people see what works in addressing climate change and related issues like energy, water, food and disaster-risk reduction. Using the discipline of systems thinking, the team at Climate Interactive has partnered with major government policymakers such as the US State Department to help them assess and communicate their strategies concerning climate change. Climate Interactive has similarly assisted numerous nongovernmental organizations and businesses. This organization’s critical work has been featured in the New York Times, Live Science, the Mother Nature Network, the Washington Post and the Guardian. Most importantly, Climate Interactive has developed a robust series of interactive simulators and other experiential learning tools to help communities make progress on the global Climate Change challenges that face the world today.
A dialogue with Dr. Ruth Shapiro, Editor of The Real Problem Solvers: Social Entrepreneurs in America, a groundbreaking work that brings together leading entrepreneurs, funders, investors, thinkers, and champions in the field to answer these questions from their own, first-person perspectives. Based on a series of talks at The Commonwealth Club of California, these accounts give readers insights into the work of key individuals, but also demonstrate trends at the forefront of social change. Dr. Shapiro is Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Commonwealth Club of California and the Principal of Keyi Strategies.
Commonwealth Club of California on Facebook
Ruth Shapiro on LinkedIn
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