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Catalyzing and Empowering
a Nation Of Changemakers
Ashoka Greece
Semi - Annual Progress Report 2014
Table of Contents
Your Guide to Ashoka Greece
Ashoka Around the World
Overview of Ashoka Greece
1
Impact to Date 2
Creating a Nation of Change 3
Launching Ashoka Greece
Competition: Destination Change
Ashoka U in Greece
Next Phase
4
5
7
9
Appendix I: Our Team
Appendix II: Ashoka Greece in the Public Eye
11
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The engaged global community of social entrepreneurs that
Ashoka has fostered helps each one of them to have more
impact than would have been possible individually.
– Pierre Omidyar, founder of E-bay
Ashoka Around the World
A Closer Look at Everyone a
Changemaker™
Ashoka is the world’s leading
organization for social entrepreneurs
and changemaking. The organization was
founded in 1980 in an effort to create a
world where every individual feels
empowered to create positive
systematic change in society. We believe
the most powerful force in the world
are social entrepreneurs, who use
innovative ideas to tackle today’s most
pressing social problems. In the past 30
years,Ashoka has elected 3,000
leading social entrepreneurs
as Ashoka Fellows in over
70 different countries.
Ashoka works with young
people, institutions, companies,
and individuals to multiply the
number of Changemakers in
our world. By working with leaders in all
fields we are able to develop an
ecosystem within society that supports
the change created by our fellows and
also catalyzes new generations of
changemakers. Integrating our
organization and creating programs in
numerous fields has allowed us to
become the largest community for
changemaking in the world. At the heart
of this community are our Ashoka
Fellows who lead and inspire change.
Ashoka defines the impact of our
fellows as the system change that results
from their ideas and networks that we
help them create and support. There
are a number of key areas in the society
that our fellows impact. Current, 54% of
our fellows have changed market
dynamics at a national level within 5
years of being elected. Through
execution of their innovations 57% of
our fellows have also contributed to
changed national policy
within five years of
election. Our fellows are
also successful and
impacting socially excluded
populations with 54% of
them managing to achieve
national impact for marginalized groups
within five years of being
elected.
On top of the impact they create,
Ashoka Fellows are highly independent.
Many achieve business-social
congruence through a for-profit element
of their innovation that provides capital
for their organization. The example that
the fellows set is also infectious. Their
innovations cultivate cultures of
changemaking and open up
opportunities for current and future
generations of changemakers.
1
Ashoka Greece
Creating a Nation of Changemakers
Social innovation represents a
compelling model contributing to a
better economic and social
development path in Greece. We
believe society will begin transforming
with leading individuals driving change,
an environment that allows them to
flourish and expand their solutions,and
a network of institutions, teams and
alliances across the social and private
sectors that empower and support
citizens and young people to tackle
challenges in their communities.
Ashoka began its launch activities
January 2014, and continues to build a
local and international network of
partners. Ashoka and the Robert
Bosch Stiftung launched a
partnership to support social
entrepreneurship for employment
in Southern Europe, including
Greece.The Hellenic Initiative is a
leading partner in this alliance for
Greece.
Ashoka Greece in Numbers
900+ Social Media Followers
93 Changemaker Competition
Entries
26 Partnerships
28 Media Outlets featuring
Ashoka Greece
8 Universities engaged
2
Greece: An opportunity for Changemakers
- a letter from the Launch Director
This is a crucial moment in Greece.There are many social and economic
challenges that need solutions, and they are growing faster than existing
institutions can respond or solve them. People are creating new networks
within the citizen sector to launch their own solutions, but also to adopt
new, inclusive processes for addressing needs and solving problems.
Through grassroots initiatives and entrepreneurship, people are proving to
themselves and others that they can take action and transform their
communities.
Greece has an opportunity to create a whole new framework for society.
While individual entrepreneurship and social sector organizations have
been valuable in addressing specific challenges and delivering basic services,
new connections throughout society and a culture of collaborative
changemaking are needed to amplify effective, empathetic and innovative
solutions that create systemic changes in society. Greece needs long-term
solutions that address the root causes of problems, change patterns and
create new alliances in society, and are ready to expand to the national
level.
With investment and support from partners in Greece and Europe, and key
members of the Greek diaspora,Ashoka can play a significant role in helping
build trust around Greek changemakers and accelerating their impact.With
Ashoka’s support, these changemakers will create momentum towards a
Greek society in which every person can take action to build teams and
collaborate to solve social challenges.
Aphrodite Bouikidis,
Ashoka Greece Launch Director
Ashoka Greece
Creating a Nation of Changemakers
Building an ecosystem around social innovation
93 projects were entered in Ashoka’s Destination: Change. New Solutions for
Greece changemakers competition. Four winners announced July 2014.
30 potential Ashoka Fellow candidates
28unique media mentions
26 confirmed or developing partnerships (strategic, funding, pro-bono)
10 nominators for fellows are part of our network
8 Universities participated in Ashoka Greece and Ashoka U’s Social Innovation
Institute in Greece, May 2014.
8 evolving partnerships with Greek Philanthropic Foundations
2 Ashoka Fellows from Europe visited Athens to share their story, their model,
and engage in strategic discussions with local stakeholders interested in bringing
their approach to Greece.
o Marie Trellu-Kane, Unis-Cité, France
o Guillaume Bapst,Association Nationale De Dévelopement des
Epiceries Solidaires (ANDES), France
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Launching Ashoka Greece
The First Six Months
Bring Global Innovations to Greece
Ashoka Greece and the Agricultural University of Athens, with the support of The Hellenic
Initiative and Robert Bosch Stiftung, hosted a gathering March 27 on new models to improve
access to nutritious food for vulnerable populations, featuring Ashoka Fellow Guillaume
Bapst, from France.
In Greece, individuals, families and groups have been affected by the economic recession with
inadequate access to enough food, or enough nutritious fresh food, particularly in urban areas.
Solutions to this issue must address both immediate access and offer new models that create
long-term, mutually beneficial relationships that empower people across the food supply chain
to work together. The gathering included a public panel and an invitation-only stakeholder
discussion on the topic of access to healthy food, with local partners and stakeholders
4
Ashoka Fellow Guillaume Bapst speaking at the Agricultural
University of Athens, March 27.
Association Nationale De Dévelopement des Epiceries
Solidaires (ANDES), France
Guillaume Bapst is revolutionizing the way low-income
households access and purchase food. In an attempt to
improve the food distribution system in France, where
access is often slow and bureaucratic, choices are
limited, and quality and nutritional value are low,
Guillaume has built a network of solidarity grocery
shops. His national network of social groceries includes
200 to date, that aim to distribute food to low income
populations with a minor financial participation as
"clients" not "beneficiaries". Guillaume was elected as
an Ashoka Fellow in 2006.
Guillaume shared his experience and
insights for developing a system to help
low income individuals and families have
access to healthy and affordable food and
support for further economic
empowerment. A representative from
the Federation of Polish Food Banks, an
Ashoka partner in Poland, and local
initiatives of the citizen sector
organization (CSO) Boroume
(boroume.gr) and the Greek Food Bank
were also featured.
Ashoka Greece announced in July the four winning entries in “Destination: Change. New Solutions for Greece”, the first
Changemakers competition for Greece, launched March 2014.
The competition is an initiative by Ashoka, The Hellenic Initiative, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation,
Boehringer Ingelheim Hellas, and SAP Hellas to source innovative solutions for social change in Greece.
At the close of the competition, Ashoka organized a Changemakers Day, and invited the teams of the competition
winners, finalists, and other notable projects. Over 20 individuals from the private sector attended, including the
competition partners, to facilitate sessions, mentor the project teams on their models, next steps and potential
partners, and to build connections through commitments (facilitating introductions to key partners, offering in-
depth consultative sessions or capacity-building sessions in the next months, etc).
For additional information about the competition, visit: www.changemakers.com/destinationchange
Identify and Accelerate Local Solutions
5
The Winners
1. Solutions for social and economic inclusion of vulnerable populations:
BOROUME, Saving Food Saving Lives – The NGO BOROUME facilitates the food saving
process of the largest supermarket chain in Greece to nearby welfare organizations & charities as
well as municipal social services who help people with food insecurity, and strengthening a spirit
of collaboration among networks of community groups.
II. Strengthening communities through environmental solutions:
xorafaki.gr – The xorafaki.gr team of experts, through an online service, guides individuals
through the first steps of utilizing their plot of land, from cultivation to production, and the
placing and even standardization and export of their products.
xorafaki.gr will also receive the SAP® Business One software with licenses for 3 users,
and training on using this software, provided by SAP Hellas for one of the monetary prize
winners.
III. Supporting healthy and active aging:
BRACE Social Cooperative Enterprise - Brace Social Coop acts on supporting caregivers to
develop empathic, secure relationships and positive connection with caretakers and minimize
burn out risk through the Marte Meo program. Furthermore, it supports children to avoid
poverty by building social and financial skills through the Aflatoun program.
IV. Innovation for access to healthcare:
Filisia - creates accessible music and multimedia interfaces that support the rehabilitation
process of people with disabilities, and are designed with therapists, users and families.
Identify and Accelerate Local Solutions
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The judges:
• Eric Rosenthal, Founder and Executive Director
of Disability Rights International (DRI)
• Michael Printzos, Program Director, The Hellenic
Initiative
• Ivan Juric, Head Programme Officer, Social
Welfare & Community Development, John S.
Latsis Public Benefit Foundation
• Emmanuel Mitakis, Head of Communication &
Global Making More Health Project, Boehringer
Ingelheim Ellas
• Manos Raptopoulos, COO Head South Europe,
Managing Director SAP Hellas, Cyprus & Malta.
A look at local changemakers:
• Over 50% of the entries aim to strengthen social
and economic inclusion of vulnerable populations.
• About 2/3 are in the idea/startup phase, indicating
a movement to develop new solutions or
approaches to problems in society.
• More than 50% identified their model as ‘hybrid’,
further indicating a desire to find new
legal/financial models through which to deliver
sustainable social impact.
Our infographic describing the characteristics of the
entries is attached.
Ashoka Greece and Ashoka U organized a 2-day
institute on May 20-21 to empower administrators,
faculty, and students from Greek universities to bring
social entrepreneurship to their campuses and create
meaningful programming around social innovation.
During the institute, teams from 8 universities heard
from several Greek and European social
entrepreneurs regarding their social mission and
experiences with social enterprise. Ashoka Fellow
Marie Trellu-Kane shared her experience creating
Unis-Cité, which mobilizes young people aged 16-25
for a 9-month full-time community service program.
Unis-Cité stands for “All United for the Community,”
and is one of its biggest and most innovative NGOs
in France. The success of her initiative convinced the
French government to create the first Civic Service
National Agency in 2010 to scale-up her model and
foster a citizenship spirit among new generations of
young people. The French civilian youth service
legislation will engage 30,000 youth this year.
Leading Change in Education and Learning –
Empowering Young Changemakers
7
Interviews with Social Entrepreneurs,
AshokaU Social Innovation Institute.
Ashoka U Social Innovation Institute in Greece
Marie Trellu – Kane
Ashoka Fellow, President Unis-Cité (Civic Service)
France
Over the last 15 years, Marie has designed a model to make citizen
engagement a normal step in young peoples’ lives and has thus
created the infrastructure to help them become social changemakers.
As thousands of young people continue to dedicate periods of their
lives full-time to social and environmental organizations, Marie now
positions her association as a genuine experimental lab dedicated to
invent new ways for youth to commit to society and to create the
tools for a new generation of changemakers.
Educators within Ashoka’s global network, from 4 Ashoka U Changemaker Campuses, joined the Institute
both in person and virtually to share best practices for implementing innovative learning programs for
social impact.
“Always start by aligning social innovation with the mission statement of the school.”
- Jeff Snell, Special Advisor the President of Marquette University
Participants included teams from the
following universities:
 Agricultural University of Athens
 American College of Greece and ALBA
Graduate Business School
 American College of Thessaloniki
 American Farm School & Perrotis College
 Athens University of Economics and Business
 Democritus University ofThrace
 Panteion University
 University of Ioannina
8
Ashoka’s Launch Director is featured in a Massive Online Open
Course (MOOC) on entrepreneurship, sponsored by ALBA
Business School at the American College of Greece, Metavallon,
The US Mission in Greece, CaseWestern Reserve University, and
Coursera.
University teams at the Ashoka U Social
Innovation Institute, May 2014
Ashoka U Social Innovation Institute in Greece
Participants from all universities collectively identify the essential competencies that
undergraduate students need to drive forward the Greek economy and society, and to
succeed in today’s changing world: empathy,creativity,systems-analysis, and resilience.
These skills can by applied by students as they practice social entrepreneurship at increased
levels of sophistication. Empathy can be utilized to understand the needs of others, and the
innovator can act on those needs through direct service (e.g. feeding the hungry, building a
home, etc.). With creativity, the social innovator can scale and grow the direct service idea to
benefit more people (e.g. a network of service provider centers to feed the hungry or match
families to affordable housing).Through systems-analysis, the social innovator can discover
the root cause of the problem (e.g. policy limitations, etc.) to identify levers for systems
change. With resilience, the innovator can test new ideas and adapt to challenges as they
emerge, eventually changing the perception of society to understand a problem or a
population of people differently and to better understand their own role in the solution.
Ashoka has quietly given philanthropy a new dimension: it has
shown how to invest successfully in pattern-breaking, powerful
ideas and the people behind them and how to do so early
when a little makes an enormous difference.
-Peter Goldmark, Former CEO of the Interna5onal Herald
Tribune
Nominate a Fellow
We learn of candidates in two main ways: we actively look for them in fields ripe for change, and our community –
you! – continuously alerts us to social entrepreneurs for whom the Ashoka Fellow route may be appropriate.
If you are interested in nominating a social entrepreneur to the Ashoka Fellowship, we welcome any information
about a candidate and their work that you can provide. Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the
world’s leading social entrepreneurs on its own. Good nominators ensure that Ashoka receives a constant flow of
promising candidates as well as an invaluable perspective on the current innovation in the sector. We depend on
you to guide us to the hidden gems and unrecognized visionaries out there! We thank you in advance. Please also
read through the five Ashoka Fellow Selection Criteria carefully to make sure the nominee fits our understanding of
a leading social entrepreneur.
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Know a Social Entrepreneur? Nominate a Fellow Here.
Next Phase
Ashoka Fellow Selection Criteria
The Ashoka Fellow Selection Criteria are the basis of our Search and Selection Process. What
characterizes a leading social entrepreneur? How does Ashoka decide which candidates to nominate
and which to turn away? What does everyone in our community of Fellows have in common?
Ashoka's selection process is anchored by our five criteria against which all Fellow candidates are
evaluated:
o The KnockoutTest:A New Idea
o Creativity
o Entrepreneurial Quality
o Social Impact of the Idea
o Ethical Fibre
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Next Phase
The GlobalizerX on Employment is part of “THIS WORKS” - an initiative launched by Ashoka with the
support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung to support the scale and replication of proven solutions and
ideas for employment in Southern Europe.
The GlobalizerX on Employment is simultaneously run by Ashoka in
the UK, France, Germany and Austria with the aim of accelerating 15 social innovations in the field of
employment in Greece, Italy and Spain. The program will showcase and help spread in these
countries the most effective citizen-led solutions from the Ashoka network that could help generate
change and create an ecosystem for social entrepreneurship and employment in Southern Europe.
15 Ashoka Fellows are currently building their scaling strategies with advisory teams of senior
business executives and strategy consultants. Fellows include:
- Charlie Murphy, co-founded Partners for Youth Empowerment, a global organization that awakens
the creative leadership of over 200,000 young people annually;
- Serra Titiz from Turkey, is reducing school and work drop-out rates by enabling youths to
transparently choose from the widest range of possible career aspirations both on- and offline;
- Gregor Demblin designed Europe's first online career platform with a simple and efficient way to
include people with disabilities in all types of job offerings.
The advisory process will culminate into a 2-day GlobalizerX event hosted in London on the 19th and
20th of September. At the event, global business leaders will meet with Fellows and critically analyze
their scaling strategies while also offering Fellows the strategic support and insight needed to enable
these innovations to increase their impact dramatically.
Our Team
Aphrodite Bouikidis is the Launch Director for Ashoka Greece.
Prior to this, she directed the Reinventing Greece Media Project and
a student leadership program with Next Generation Initiative, a
Hellenic-American non-profit organization that supports leadership
and mentorship opportunities for students and young professionals
across the U.S. Aphrodite also spent three years on the Middle East
and North Africa team at the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs (NDI), where she helped develop and support
civic participation programs, including programs focusing on women,
youth and civil society organizations. She earned a master of arts
degree in international relations from the University of Chicago and
was named a StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellow in 2010, and
selected to join the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders network
in 2014.
Evita Kolokouri is a Consultant of Ashoka Greece for
changemaking activities & partnerships. In parallel, she supports the
business modelling phase of 180º (180 Moires)
social impact venture. She is a recent BA in Business Management
graduate and as a student she has spent 4 years working as a
volunteer & executive board member in one of the largest global -
student run organizations - AIESEC in Greece and abroad. She
found her passion in Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship and her
mission is: leading sustainable change through collaborative,
innovative & impactful initiatives. Evita serves as the co-ambassador
of Sandbox Network in Athens and she is also part of the European
Research Team for Service Learning. She is an alumnus of Ashoka’s
ChangemakerXchange, the international collaboration platform of
the most aspiring young Social Entrepreneurs.
Samantha Riemer is a Talent Operations Associate working
from Ashoka’s Global Office in Arlington, Virginia. She works on
Ashoka Greece for 20% of her time, engaging in activities like
researching potential fellows, writing media pieces, and creating
external materials for the office. Samantha is a recent graduate of
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she
earned a BA in International Studies with a focus on global
growth and economic development. While at the university she
played an active role in developing the school’s entrepreneurship
minor. She also re-started the local chapter of the largest youth
led organization in the world: AIESEC.
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Our Team - Advisors
Felix Oldenburg serves as Europe Co-Leader and Director Germany
for Ashoka, the world's first and foremost association of leading social
entrepreneurs, with 2,700 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries. An
entrepreneur and expert at the interfaces of the social, business and
political sectors, Felix has launched a number of national and international
programs at Ashoka that accelerate the spread and impact of social
innovations. Before joining Ashoka, Felix started an online business and
worked for management consulting firm McKinsey&Company in London.
As director at a political consultancy, he pioneered citizen consultations
for governments and foundations, including the European Citizens'
Consultations in 27 countries. He speaks and publishes on social
entrepreneurship, citizen engagement, and corporate social responsibility.
Felix studied Philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Tübingen and Oxford
and acquired an Executive Master in Policy Management in Washington
DC (Georgetown).
12
Maria Clara Pinheiro - After joining Ashoka in 2003 in Brazil,
worked extensively on the search and selection of leading social
entrepreneurs from all over the world. In 2009, she moved to India
to set up a new hub for Ashoka in Bangalore and to build the new
leadership team in South Asia. In 2012, she moved back to
Washington DC to work on Ashoka's global strategies for engaging
members of diaspora communities in solving larger social problems
in their countries of origin. Maria Clara graduated from Fundação
Getulio Vargas, Brazil.
Arnaud Mourot has been Ashoka's CEO in France since November
2005, and he has also managed the development in Belgium and
Switzerland since 2006. He has enabled the launch of the Venture and
Fellowship programs (already 21 Fellows), and of a Social Business Plan
competition in the 3 countries. Arnaud holds an MBA from the Paris
Management School, ESCP, where he focused on "Innovation and
Entrepreneurship." For 10 years he was also a prominent member of the
French Wrestling team and an international champion. He created the
Sport Sans Frontières (SSF) NGO in 1999, which he has chaired since
Ashoka hired him.
Our Team - Advisors
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Marie Ringler was born in Vienna, studied Sociology, Political
Science and Women`s Studies at the University of Vienna, and
holds an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She
helped build Public Netbase, an art institution dedicated to
exploring the societal implications of the internet and new
technologies through the lens of art, and managed its operations
and international exhibitions and conferences. She was elected
into office as a Member of the Regional Parliament and City
Council of Vienna in 2001. After two successful terms in office, she
decided against a life-long career in politics and became Country
Representative of Ashoka Austria
Matthias Scheffelmeier is leading Ashoka's expansion to Turkey.
Prior to that he was a program director at Ashoka in Germany. He is
a BMW Foundation Young Leader and winner of the 2011 BMW
Foundation Young Leader Award. Before joining Ashoka in 2009 he
founded his own initiative empowering youth to become active in
their local communities and spent 12 months in Istanbul coordinating
Microsoft's Community Affairs (CSR & Citizenship) program in the
Middle East and Africa region. During this time, Matthias also co-
founded the Berlin-based internet startup pocketvillage.com (a meta-
search engine for extraordinary travel experiences).
Our Partners
SAP
Hellas and Cyprus
Boehringer Ingelheim
Hellas
Accenture
Orange Grove
Agricultural
University of Athens
EMEA.gr
DEREE – The American
College of Greece &
ALBA
Anna Lindh
Foundation
CUBIK-S Strategies,
Solutions, Success
Aelia
Working Life LabZepos &Yannopoulos
Law Firm
Embassy of Austria
in Athens
Appendix II - Changing the Conversation: A
Focus on Solutions and Innovations for
Society
Ashoka Greece in the Public Eye
Social Entrepreneurship Summit of EUNIC
(Panel presentations,Workshop - Greece launch
director and Ashoka Austria representative)
Social Entrepreneurship “Doing Business
the OtherWay”, PROSVASIS (Keynote
presentation,Ashoka Europe Co-Director)
Social Entrepreneurship:An entrepreneurial
approach to finding solutions for social
problems— Dimos Avdiron and Europe
Direct Xanthi, (Panel presentation)
Ethos Sustainability Forum (Workshop)
European Foundation Center Annual
General Assembly and Conference –
Sarajevo (Panel Presentation)
New Economies for Sustainable Horizons
Conference - Slovenia (Keynote presentation)
International Conference on Social
Entrepreneurship— Ministry of Labour,
Social Security and Welfare and the
European Commission (DG Enterprise and
Industry), under the auspices of the Hellenic
Presidency of the EU Council, Crete (Plenary
panel,Ashoka Europe Co-Director)
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Ashoka Greece Co-Leading a workshop on social impact
reporting, December 3rd, 2013. Source: British Council’s
Think Social Act Business Series
Appendix II Cont.
Media Coverage
ToVima.gr- Επιχειρηματικές συνεργασίες με κοινωνικό
αντίκτυπο, 2/1/2014.
EMEA.gr:
“Ashoka: Πλησιάζει στο ελληνικό λανσάρισμα με δωρεά από
την Ελληνική Πρωτοβουλία” 12/12/2013.
"Social & Business Co-Creation": Υποβάλλετε το project σας
μέχρι τις 04/03 και διεκδικήστε επιπλέον έπαθλα”
Ο A. Mourot της Ashoka στο 1ο Συνέδριο Κοινωνικής
Επιχειρηματικότητας "Επιχειρώντας Αλλιώς" 11/13/2013.
Epixeirw.gr- Social & Business Co-Creation: Κάλεσμα για τα πιο
καινοτόμα παραδείγματα Κοινωνικής & Επιχειρηματικής Συν-
δημουργίας στην Ευρώπη! 1/29/2014.
CSR Review - Arnaud Mourot : To κοινωνικό επιχειρείν είναι
τρόπος σκέψης. Issue #44, csrnews.gr 1/17/2014.
The TOC-” Διαγωνισμός με προορισμό την Αλλαγή. Ανοιξε η
διαδικασία υποβολής συμμετοχών για τον διαγωνισμό”
CafeBabel - What is a social entrepreneur and why it matters to
us (feature and interview of Ashoka Fellow Guillaume Bapst),
6/2/2014.
Businessnews- ”Διαγωνισμός για καινοτόμες λύσεις που θα
αλλάξουν την Ελλάδα”
Chios Press- “Στηριζει Την Κοινωνικη Οικονομια Θεσπιζοντασ
Βραβεια Το Υδρυμα Λατση”
SocialPolicy.gr- “Με στόχο την προστασία του περιβάλλοντος
και την ενίσχυση των ελληνικών κοινοτήτων προς μια βιώσιμη
ανάπτυξη”
Pharma Journal-” Υγειονομική περίθαλψη για όλους:
Αναζητώντας νέα μοντέλα για την Ελλάδα”
Proto Thema- “Κοινωνική αλλαγή με σύμμαχο την τεχνολογία”
Kathimerini- “Διαγωνισμός «Προορισμός: Αλλαγή. Νέες λύσεις
για την Ελλάδα”
Embassy of Greece’s Greece in America newsletter, April 2014,
Issue 13 - Competition announcement. http://us5.campaign-
archive2.com/?u=6cb2d297ff616984b41ff4bae&id=d56838b96
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Articles
Ashoka Greece speaking on the Social
Entrepreneurship Panel, hosted by Dimos
Avdiron and Europe Direct Xanthi
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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach
how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized
the fishing industry.
– Bill Drayton, Ashoka Founder and CEO
greece.ashoka.org

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Ashoka Semi-Annual Report_PUBLIC_final version

  • 1. Catalyzing and Empowering a Nation Of Changemakers Ashoka Greece Semi - Annual Progress Report 2014
  • 2. Table of Contents Your Guide to Ashoka Greece Ashoka Around the World Overview of Ashoka Greece 1 Impact to Date 2 Creating a Nation of Change 3 Launching Ashoka Greece Competition: Destination Change Ashoka U in Greece Next Phase 4 5 7 9 Appendix I: Our Team Appendix II: Ashoka Greece in the Public Eye 11 14
  • 3. The engaged global community of social entrepreneurs that Ashoka has fostered helps each one of them to have more impact than would have been possible individually. – Pierre Omidyar, founder of E-bay
  • 4. Ashoka Around the World A Closer Look at Everyone a Changemaker™ Ashoka is the world’s leading organization for social entrepreneurs and changemaking. The organization was founded in 1980 in an effort to create a world where every individual feels empowered to create positive systematic change in society. We believe the most powerful force in the world are social entrepreneurs, who use innovative ideas to tackle today’s most pressing social problems. In the past 30 years,Ashoka has elected 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows in over 70 different countries. Ashoka works with young people, institutions, companies, and individuals to multiply the number of Changemakers in our world. By working with leaders in all fields we are able to develop an ecosystem within society that supports the change created by our fellows and also catalyzes new generations of changemakers. Integrating our organization and creating programs in numerous fields has allowed us to become the largest community for changemaking in the world. At the heart of this community are our Ashoka Fellows who lead and inspire change. Ashoka defines the impact of our fellows as the system change that results from their ideas and networks that we help them create and support. There are a number of key areas in the society that our fellows impact. Current, 54% of our fellows have changed market dynamics at a national level within 5 years of being elected. Through execution of their innovations 57% of our fellows have also contributed to changed national policy within five years of election. Our fellows are also successful and impacting socially excluded populations with 54% of them managing to achieve national impact for marginalized groups within five years of being elected. On top of the impact they create, Ashoka Fellows are highly independent. Many achieve business-social congruence through a for-profit element of their innovation that provides capital for their organization. The example that the fellows set is also infectious. Their innovations cultivate cultures of changemaking and open up opportunities for current and future generations of changemakers. 1
  • 5. Ashoka Greece Creating a Nation of Changemakers Social innovation represents a compelling model contributing to a better economic and social development path in Greece. We believe society will begin transforming with leading individuals driving change, an environment that allows them to flourish and expand their solutions,and a network of institutions, teams and alliances across the social and private sectors that empower and support citizens and young people to tackle challenges in their communities. Ashoka began its launch activities January 2014, and continues to build a local and international network of partners. Ashoka and the Robert Bosch Stiftung launched a partnership to support social entrepreneurship for employment in Southern Europe, including Greece.The Hellenic Initiative is a leading partner in this alliance for Greece. Ashoka Greece in Numbers 900+ Social Media Followers 93 Changemaker Competition Entries 26 Partnerships 28 Media Outlets featuring Ashoka Greece 8 Universities engaged 2
  • 6. Greece: An opportunity for Changemakers - a letter from the Launch Director This is a crucial moment in Greece.There are many social and economic challenges that need solutions, and they are growing faster than existing institutions can respond or solve them. People are creating new networks within the citizen sector to launch their own solutions, but also to adopt new, inclusive processes for addressing needs and solving problems. Through grassroots initiatives and entrepreneurship, people are proving to themselves and others that they can take action and transform their communities. Greece has an opportunity to create a whole new framework for society. While individual entrepreneurship and social sector organizations have been valuable in addressing specific challenges and delivering basic services, new connections throughout society and a culture of collaborative changemaking are needed to amplify effective, empathetic and innovative solutions that create systemic changes in society. Greece needs long-term solutions that address the root causes of problems, change patterns and create new alliances in society, and are ready to expand to the national level. With investment and support from partners in Greece and Europe, and key members of the Greek diaspora,Ashoka can play a significant role in helping build trust around Greek changemakers and accelerating their impact.With Ashoka’s support, these changemakers will create momentum towards a Greek society in which every person can take action to build teams and collaborate to solve social challenges. Aphrodite Bouikidis, Ashoka Greece Launch Director
  • 7. Ashoka Greece Creating a Nation of Changemakers Building an ecosystem around social innovation 93 projects were entered in Ashoka’s Destination: Change. New Solutions for Greece changemakers competition. Four winners announced July 2014. 30 potential Ashoka Fellow candidates 28unique media mentions 26 confirmed or developing partnerships (strategic, funding, pro-bono) 10 nominators for fellows are part of our network 8 Universities participated in Ashoka Greece and Ashoka U’s Social Innovation Institute in Greece, May 2014. 8 evolving partnerships with Greek Philanthropic Foundations 2 Ashoka Fellows from Europe visited Athens to share their story, their model, and engage in strategic discussions with local stakeholders interested in bringing their approach to Greece. o Marie Trellu-Kane, Unis-Cité, France o Guillaume Bapst,Association Nationale De Dévelopement des Epiceries Solidaires (ANDES), France 3
  • 8. Launching Ashoka Greece The First Six Months Bring Global Innovations to Greece Ashoka Greece and the Agricultural University of Athens, with the support of The Hellenic Initiative and Robert Bosch Stiftung, hosted a gathering March 27 on new models to improve access to nutritious food for vulnerable populations, featuring Ashoka Fellow Guillaume Bapst, from France. In Greece, individuals, families and groups have been affected by the economic recession with inadequate access to enough food, or enough nutritious fresh food, particularly in urban areas. Solutions to this issue must address both immediate access and offer new models that create long-term, mutually beneficial relationships that empower people across the food supply chain to work together. The gathering included a public panel and an invitation-only stakeholder discussion on the topic of access to healthy food, with local partners and stakeholders 4 Ashoka Fellow Guillaume Bapst speaking at the Agricultural University of Athens, March 27. Association Nationale De Dévelopement des Epiceries Solidaires (ANDES), France Guillaume Bapst is revolutionizing the way low-income households access and purchase food. In an attempt to improve the food distribution system in France, where access is often slow and bureaucratic, choices are limited, and quality and nutritional value are low, Guillaume has built a network of solidarity grocery shops. His national network of social groceries includes 200 to date, that aim to distribute food to low income populations with a minor financial participation as "clients" not "beneficiaries". Guillaume was elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 2006. Guillaume shared his experience and insights for developing a system to help low income individuals and families have access to healthy and affordable food and support for further economic empowerment. A representative from the Federation of Polish Food Banks, an Ashoka partner in Poland, and local initiatives of the citizen sector organization (CSO) Boroume (boroume.gr) and the Greek Food Bank were also featured.
  • 9. Ashoka Greece announced in July the four winning entries in “Destination: Change. New Solutions for Greece”, the first Changemakers competition for Greece, launched March 2014. The competition is an initiative by Ashoka, The Hellenic Initiative, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, Boehringer Ingelheim Hellas, and SAP Hellas to source innovative solutions for social change in Greece. At the close of the competition, Ashoka organized a Changemakers Day, and invited the teams of the competition winners, finalists, and other notable projects. Over 20 individuals from the private sector attended, including the competition partners, to facilitate sessions, mentor the project teams on their models, next steps and potential partners, and to build connections through commitments (facilitating introductions to key partners, offering in- depth consultative sessions or capacity-building sessions in the next months, etc). For additional information about the competition, visit: www.changemakers.com/destinationchange Identify and Accelerate Local Solutions 5 The Winners 1. Solutions for social and economic inclusion of vulnerable populations: BOROUME, Saving Food Saving Lives – The NGO BOROUME facilitates the food saving process of the largest supermarket chain in Greece to nearby welfare organizations & charities as well as municipal social services who help people with food insecurity, and strengthening a spirit of collaboration among networks of community groups. II. Strengthening communities through environmental solutions: xorafaki.gr – The xorafaki.gr team of experts, through an online service, guides individuals through the first steps of utilizing their plot of land, from cultivation to production, and the placing and even standardization and export of their products. xorafaki.gr will also receive the SAP® Business One software with licenses for 3 users, and training on using this software, provided by SAP Hellas for one of the monetary prize winners. III. Supporting healthy and active aging: BRACE Social Cooperative Enterprise - Brace Social Coop acts on supporting caregivers to develop empathic, secure relationships and positive connection with caretakers and minimize burn out risk through the Marte Meo program. Furthermore, it supports children to avoid poverty by building social and financial skills through the Aflatoun program. IV. Innovation for access to healthcare: Filisia - creates accessible music and multimedia interfaces that support the rehabilitation process of people with disabilities, and are designed with therapists, users and families.
  • 10. Identify and Accelerate Local Solutions 6 The judges: • Eric Rosenthal, Founder and Executive Director of Disability Rights International (DRI) • Michael Printzos, Program Director, The Hellenic Initiative • Ivan Juric, Head Programme Officer, Social Welfare & Community Development, John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation • Emmanuel Mitakis, Head of Communication & Global Making More Health Project, Boehringer Ingelheim Ellas • Manos Raptopoulos, COO Head South Europe, Managing Director SAP Hellas, Cyprus & Malta. A look at local changemakers: • Over 50% of the entries aim to strengthen social and economic inclusion of vulnerable populations. • About 2/3 are in the idea/startup phase, indicating a movement to develop new solutions or approaches to problems in society. • More than 50% identified their model as ‘hybrid’, further indicating a desire to find new legal/financial models through which to deliver sustainable social impact. Our infographic describing the characteristics of the entries is attached.
  • 11. Ashoka Greece and Ashoka U organized a 2-day institute on May 20-21 to empower administrators, faculty, and students from Greek universities to bring social entrepreneurship to their campuses and create meaningful programming around social innovation. During the institute, teams from 8 universities heard from several Greek and European social entrepreneurs regarding their social mission and experiences with social enterprise. Ashoka Fellow Marie Trellu-Kane shared her experience creating Unis-Cité, which mobilizes young people aged 16-25 for a 9-month full-time community service program. Unis-Cité stands for “All United for the Community,” and is one of its biggest and most innovative NGOs in France. The success of her initiative convinced the French government to create the first Civic Service National Agency in 2010 to scale-up her model and foster a citizenship spirit among new generations of young people. The French civilian youth service legislation will engage 30,000 youth this year. Leading Change in Education and Learning – Empowering Young Changemakers 7 Interviews with Social Entrepreneurs, AshokaU Social Innovation Institute. Ashoka U Social Innovation Institute in Greece Marie Trellu – Kane Ashoka Fellow, President Unis-Cité (Civic Service) France Over the last 15 years, Marie has designed a model to make citizen engagement a normal step in young peoples’ lives and has thus created the infrastructure to help them become social changemakers. As thousands of young people continue to dedicate periods of their lives full-time to social and environmental organizations, Marie now positions her association as a genuine experimental lab dedicated to invent new ways for youth to commit to society and to create the tools for a new generation of changemakers. Educators within Ashoka’s global network, from 4 Ashoka U Changemaker Campuses, joined the Institute both in person and virtually to share best practices for implementing innovative learning programs for social impact. “Always start by aligning social innovation with the mission statement of the school.” - Jeff Snell, Special Advisor the President of Marquette University
  • 12. Participants included teams from the following universities:  Agricultural University of Athens  American College of Greece and ALBA Graduate Business School  American College of Thessaloniki  American Farm School & Perrotis College  Athens University of Economics and Business  Democritus University ofThrace  Panteion University  University of Ioannina 8 Ashoka’s Launch Director is featured in a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on entrepreneurship, sponsored by ALBA Business School at the American College of Greece, Metavallon, The US Mission in Greece, CaseWestern Reserve University, and Coursera. University teams at the Ashoka U Social Innovation Institute, May 2014 Ashoka U Social Innovation Institute in Greece Participants from all universities collectively identify the essential competencies that undergraduate students need to drive forward the Greek economy and society, and to succeed in today’s changing world: empathy,creativity,systems-analysis, and resilience. These skills can by applied by students as they practice social entrepreneurship at increased levels of sophistication. Empathy can be utilized to understand the needs of others, and the innovator can act on those needs through direct service (e.g. feeding the hungry, building a home, etc.). With creativity, the social innovator can scale and grow the direct service idea to benefit more people (e.g. a network of service provider centers to feed the hungry or match families to affordable housing).Through systems-analysis, the social innovator can discover the root cause of the problem (e.g. policy limitations, etc.) to identify levers for systems change. With resilience, the innovator can test new ideas and adapt to challenges as they emerge, eventually changing the perception of society to understand a problem or a population of people differently and to better understand their own role in the solution.
  • 13. Ashoka has quietly given philanthropy a new dimension: it has shown how to invest successfully in pattern-breaking, powerful ideas and the people behind them and how to do so early when a little makes an enormous difference. -Peter Goldmark, Former CEO of the Interna5onal Herald Tribune
  • 14. Nominate a Fellow We learn of candidates in two main ways: we actively look for them in fields ripe for change, and our community – you! – continuously alerts us to social entrepreneurs for whom the Ashoka Fellow route may be appropriate. If you are interested in nominating a social entrepreneur to the Ashoka Fellowship, we welcome any information about a candidate and their work that you can provide. Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading social entrepreneurs on its own. Good nominators ensure that Ashoka receives a constant flow of promising candidates as well as an invaluable perspective on the current innovation in the sector. We depend on you to guide us to the hidden gems and unrecognized visionaries out there! We thank you in advance. Please also read through the five Ashoka Fellow Selection Criteria carefully to make sure the nominee fits our understanding of a leading social entrepreneur. 9 Know a Social Entrepreneur? Nominate a Fellow Here. Next Phase Ashoka Fellow Selection Criteria The Ashoka Fellow Selection Criteria are the basis of our Search and Selection Process. What characterizes a leading social entrepreneur? How does Ashoka decide which candidates to nominate and which to turn away? What does everyone in our community of Fellows have in common? Ashoka's selection process is anchored by our five criteria against which all Fellow candidates are evaluated: o The KnockoutTest:A New Idea o Creativity o Entrepreneurial Quality o Social Impact of the Idea o Ethical Fibre
  • 15. 10 Next Phase The GlobalizerX on Employment is part of “THIS WORKS” - an initiative launched by Ashoka with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung to support the scale and replication of proven solutions and ideas for employment in Southern Europe. The GlobalizerX on Employment is simultaneously run by Ashoka in the UK, France, Germany and Austria with the aim of accelerating 15 social innovations in the field of employment in Greece, Italy and Spain. The program will showcase and help spread in these countries the most effective citizen-led solutions from the Ashoka network that could help generate change and create an ecosystem for social entrepreneurship and employment in Southern Europe. 15 Ashoka Fellows are currently building their scaling strategies with advisory teams of senior business executives and strategy consultants. Fellows include: - Charlie Murphy, co-founded Partners for Youth Empowerment, a global organization that awakens the creative leadership of over 200,000 young people annually; - Serra Titiz from Turkey, is reducing school and work drop-out rates by enabling youths to transparently choose from the widest range of possible career aspirations both on- and offline; - Gregor Demblin designed Europe's first online career platform with a simple and efficient way to include people with disabilities in all types of job offerings. The advisory process will culminate into a 2-day GlobalizerX event hosted in London on the 19th and 20th of September. At the event, global business leaders will meet with Fellows and critically analyze their scaling strategies while also offering Fellows the strategic support and insight needed to enable these innovations to increase their impact dramatically.
  • 16. Our Team Aphrodite Bouikidis is the Launch Director for Ashoka Greece. Prior to this, she directed the Reinventing Greece Media Project and a student leadership program with Next Generation Initiative, a Hellenic-American non-profit organization that supports leadership and mentorship opportunities for students and young professionals across the U.S. Aphrodite also spent three years on the Middle East and North Africa team at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), where she helped develop and support civic participation programs, including programs focusing on women, youth and civil society organizations. She earned a master of arts degree in international relations from the University of Chicago and was named a StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellow in 2010, and selected to join the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders network in 2014. Evita Kolokouri is a Consultant of Ashoka Greece for changemaking activities & partnerships. In parallel, she supports the business modelling phase of 180º (180 Moires) social impact venture. She is a recent BA in Business Management graduate and as a student she has spent 4 years working as a volunteer & executive board member in one of the largest global - student run organizations - AIESEC in Greece and abroad. She found her passion in Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship and her mission is: leading sustainable change through collaborative, innovative & impactful initiatives. Evita serves as the co-ambassador of Sandbox Network in Athens and she is also part of the European Research Team for Service Learning. She is an alumnus of Ashoka’s ChangemakerXchange, the international collaboration platform of the most aspiring young Social Entrepreneurs. Samantha Riemer is a Talent Operations Associate working from Ashoka’s Global Office in Arlington, Virginia. She works on Ashoka Greece for 20% of her time, engaging in activities like researching potential fellows, writing media pieces, and creating external materials for the office. Samantha is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she earned a BA in International Studies with a focus on global growth and economic development. While at the university she played an active role in developing the school’s entrepreneurship minor. She also re-started the local chapter of the largest youth led organization in the world: AIESEC. 11
  • 17. Our Team - Advisors Felix Oldenburg serves as Europe Co-Leader and Director Germany for Ashoka, the world's first and foremost association of leading social entrepreneurs, with 2,700 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries. An entrepreneur and expert at the interfaces of the social, business and political sectors, Felix has launched a number of national and international programs at Ashoka that accelerate the spread and impact of social innovations. Before joining Ashoka, Felix started an online business and worked for management consulting firm McKinsey&Company in London. As director at a political consultancy, he pioneered citizen consultations for governments and foundations, including the European Citizens' Consultations in 27 countries. He speaks and publishes on social entrepreneurship, citizen engagement, and corporate social responsibility. Felix studied Philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Tübingen and Oxford and acquired an Executive Master in Policy Management in Washington DC (Georgetown). 12 Maria Clara Pinheiro - After joining Ashoka in 2003 in Brazil, worked extensively on the search and selection of leading social entrepreneurs from all over the world. In 2009, she moved to India to set up a new hub for Ashoka in Bangalore and to build the new leadership team in South Asia. In 2012, she moved back to Washington DC to work on Ashoka's global strategies for engaging members of diaspora communities in solving larger social problems in their countries of origin. Maria Clara graduated from Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil. Arnaud Mourot has been Ashoka's CEO in France since November 2005, and he has also managed the development in Belgium and Switzerland since 2006. He has enabled the launch of the Venture and Fellowship programs (already 21 Fellows), and of a Social Business Plan competition in the 3 countries. Arnaud holds an MBA from the Paris Management School, ESCP, where he focused on "Innovation and Entrepreneurship." For 10 years he was also a prominent member of the French Wrestling team and an international champion. He created the Sport Sans Frontières (SSF) NGO in 1999, which he has chaired since Ashoka hired him.
  • 18. Our Team - Advisors 13 Marie Ringler was born in Vienna, studied Sociology, Political Science and Women`s Studies at the University of Vienna, and holds an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She helped build Public Netbase, an art institution dedicated to exploring the societal implications of the internet and new technologies through the lens of art, and managed its operations and international exhibitions and conferences. She was elected into office as a Member of the Regional Parliament and City Council of Vienna in 2001. After two successful terms in office, she decided against a life-long career in politics and became Country Representative of Ashoka Austria Matthias Scheffelmeier is leading Ashoka's expansion to Turkey. Prior to that he was a program director at Ashoka in Germany. He is a BMW Foundation Young Leader and winner of the 2011 BMW Foundation Young Leader Award. Before joining Ashoka in 2009 he founded his own initiative empowering youth to become active in their local communities and spent 12 months in Istanbul coordinating Microsoft's Community Affairs (CSR & Citizenship) program in the Middle East and Africa region. During this time, Matthias also co- founded the Berlin-based internet startup pocketvillage.com (a meta- search engine for extraordinary travel experiences). Our Partners SAP Hellas and Cyprus Boehringer Ingelheim Hellas Accenture Orange Grove Agricultural University of Athens EMEA.gr DEREE – The American College of Greece & ALBA Anna Lindh Foundation CUBIK-S Strategies, Solutions, Success Aelia Working Life LabZepos &Yannopoulos Law Firm Embassy of Austria in Athens
  • 19. Appendix II - Changing the Conversation: A Focus on Solutions and Innovations for Society Ashoka Greece in the Public Eye Social Entrepreneurship Summit of EUNIC (Panel presentations,Workshop - Greece launch director and Ashoka Austria representative) Social Entrepreneurship “Doing Business the OtherWay”, PROSVASIS (Keynote presentation,Ashoka Europe Co-Director) Social Entrepreneurship:An entrepreneurial approach to finding solutions for social problems— Dimos Avdiron and Europe Direct Xanthi, (Panel presentation) Ethos Sustainability Forum (Workshop) European Foundation Center Annual General Assembly and Conference – Sarajevo (Panel Presentation) New Economies for Sustainable Horizons Conference - Slovenia (Keynote presentation) International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship— Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Welfare and the European Commission (DG Enterprise and Industry), under the auspices of the Hellenic Presidency of the EU Council, Crete (Plenary panel,Ashoka Europe Co-Director) 14 Ashoka Greece Co-Leading a workshop on social impact reporting, December 3rd, 2013. Source: British Council’s Think Social Act Business Series
  • 20. Appendix II Cont. Media Coverage ToVima.gr- Επιχειρηματικές συνεργασίες με κοινωνικό αντίκτυπο, 2/1/2014. EMEA.gr: “Ashoka: Πλησιάζει στο ελληνικό λανσάρισμα με δωρεά από την Ελληνική Πρωτοβουλία” 12/12/2013. "Social & Business Co-Creation": Υποβάλλετε το project σας μέχρι τις 04/03 και διεκδικήστε επιπλέον έπαθλα” Ο A. Mourot της Ashoka στο 1ο Συνέδριο Κοινωνικής Επιχειρηματικότητας "Επιχειρώντας Αλλιώς" 11/13/2013. Epixeirw.gr- Social & Business Co-Creation: Κάλεσμα για τα πιο καινοτόμα παραδείγματα Κοινωνικής & Επιχειρηματικής Συν- δημουργίας στην Ευρώπη! 1/29/2014. CSR Review - Arnaud Mourot : To κοινωνικό επιχειρείν είναι τρόπος σκέψης. Issue #44, csrnews.gr 1/17/2014. The TOC-” Διαγωνισμός με προορισμό την Αλλαγή. Ανοιξε η διαδικασία υποβολής συμμετοχών για τον διαγωνισμό” CafeBabel - What is a social entrepreneur and why it matters to us (feature and interview of Ashoka Fellow Guillaume Bapst), 6/2/2014. Businessnews- ”Διαγωνισμός για καινοτόμες λύσεις που θα αλλάξουν την Ελλάδα” Chios Press- “Στηριζει Την Κοινωνικη Οικονομια Θεσπιζοντασ Βραβεια Το Υδρυμα Λατση” SocialPolicy.gr- “Με στόχο την προστασία του περιβάλλοντος και την ενίσχυση των ελληνικών κοινοτήτων προς μια βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη” Pharma Journal-” Υγειονομική περίθαλψη για όλους: Αναζητώντας νέα μοντέλα για την Ελλάδα” Proto Thema- “Κοινωνική αλλαγή με σύμμαχο την τεχνολογία” Kathimerini- “Διαγωνισμός «Προορισμός: Αλλαγή. Νέες λύσεις για την Ελλάδα” Embassy of Greece’s Greece in America newsletter, April 2014, Issue 13 - Competition announcement. http://us5.campaign- archive2.com/?u=6cb2d297ff616984b41ff4bae&id=d56838b96 0 Articles Ashoka Greece speaking on the Social Entrepreneurship Panel, hosted by Dimos Avdiron and Europe Direct Xanthi 15
  • 21. Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry. – Bill Drayton, Ashoka Founder and CEO greece.ashoka.org