The document provides an overview of Ashoka Greece and its efforts to promote social entrepreneurship in Greece. Some key points:
1) Ashoka Greece launched in January 2014 and has since built partnerships and run programs to identify and support local social entrepreneurs.
2) Programs include a changemaker competition that identified innovative solutions in Greece and a social innovation institute at universities.
3) Ashoka Greece aims to create a network of social entrepreneurs and build an ecosystem that empowers citizens to solve social challenges. The goal is to make Greece a nation of changemakers.
Ashoka presentation at Startup Live Athens #3 "Sustainable Entrepreneurship"StartupLiveAthens
Aphrodite Bouikidis from Ashoka Washington DC was a guest at our closing ceremony sharing with our audience how Ashoka defines social entrepreneurship, making the connection with Greece and sharing some examples of Ashoka fellows.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on empowering women entrepreneurs, promoting climate resilience, and helping social enterprises effectively measure their social impact.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build financially sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on promoting women entrepreneurs, climate resilience solutions, and measuring social impact.
There are many NGOs in India that are working with corporate and public enterprises to promote CSR in India. One such renowned organisation has undertaken several projects through CSR to facilitate urban renewal.
This document discusses corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives related to cleanliness. It presents on CSR and cleanliness by a group from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Rae Bareli. The presentation outlines the importance of cleanliness, examples of CSR programs focused on cleanliness from companies like Hindustan Unilever and Tata, and the group's planned online and offline initiatives to promote cleanliness including a Facebook page and campus cleanliness drive.
This document discusses collaboration between government organizations and non-governmental organizations in India to improve agricultural extension and rural development. It provides examples of different models of NGO and GO collaboration, including NGO involvement in government programming, joint training activities, and group formation efforts. It also outlines some challenges to collaboration, such as different priorities between NGOs and GOs, lack of experience and capacity, and issues around control and sustainability. Overall, the document advocates for closer working relationships between NGOs and GOs while also recognizing limitations to collaboration.
Ashoka presentation at Startup Live Athens #3 "Sustainable Entrepreneurship"StartupLiveAthens
Aphrodite Bouikidis from Ashoka Washington DC was a guest at our closing ceremony sharing with our audience how Ashoka defines social entrepreneurship, making the connection with Greece and sharing some examples of Ashoka fellows.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on empowering women entrepreneurs, promoting climate resilience, and helping social enterprises effectively measure their social impact.
The document summarizes the work of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. The Miller Center aims to accelerate global social entrepreneurship to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. It does this through its accelerator program (GSBI) which helps hundreds of social entrepreneurs build financially sustainable businesses to solve poverty. The Miller Center also focuses on promoting women entrepreneurs, climate resilience solutions, and measuring social impact.
There are many NGOs in India that are working with corporate and public enterprises to promote CSR in India. One such renowned organisation has undertaken several projects through CSR to facilitate urban renewal.
This document discusses corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives related to cleanliness. It presents on CSR and cleanliness by a group from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Rae Bareli. The presentation outlines the importance of cleanliness, examples of CSR programs focused on cleanliness from companies like Hindustan Unilever and Tata, and the group's planned online and offline initiatives to promote cleanliness including a Facebook page and campus cleanliness drive.
This document discusses collaboration between government organizations and non-governmental organizations in India to improve agricultural extension and rural development. It provides examples of different models of NGO and GO collaboration, including NGO involvement in government programming, joint training activities, and group formation efforts. It also outlines some challenges to collaboration, such as different priorities between NGOs and GOs, lack of experience and capacity, and issues around control and sustainability. Overall, the document advocates for closer working relationships between NGOs and GOs while also recognizing limitations to collaboration.
This document discusses sustainable development and green corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in India, using the TATA group as a case study. It begins by defining sustainability and CSR, noting that businesses are called to pursue economic growth while preserving natural resources. The document then discusses how India's rapid economic growth has led to environmental degradation, and how companies are adopting "green practices" through CSR to balance development and conservation. The TATA group is highlighted for its efforts in this area to contribute to sustainable development and environmental protection in India.
Informal cooperatives play an important role in sustainable livelihood development in Ethiopia. The document analyzes a case study of self-help groups (SHGs) established by an NGO in 12 towns to promote sustainable development. Over 260 SHGs were formed with over 6,700 members. The groups save regularly and provide loans to members, who have started small businesses. To date, the groups have over $5.8 million in capital. The intervention has improved members' self-esteem, social networks, and economic opportunities through business loans. Continued support for informal cooperatives is recommended to further promote livelihood development in local communities.
This document discusses CSR collaboration between companies and NGOs in India. It defines NGOs and their roles in areas like human rights, the environment, and poverty eradication. The document also categorizes NGOs based on their level of operation and orientation. It outlines the benefits of partnerships between companies and NGOs, including improved reputation and access to new markets for companies and increased funding and marketing for NGOs. Successful partnerships require effective communication, shared vision, and positive community relations.
Philanthropic Activities for all sorts of IssuesYosef Meystel
Here are a few examples of the sectors where philanthropic activities take place and the names of non-profits that work trying to provide solutions for the issues that rise and their corresponding sectors .
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works to preserve wilderness areas and reduce human impact on the environment. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are independent citizen-led organizations that provide services to members and communities in areas like humanitarian aid and social sciences. NGOs have a high degree of public trust and can advocate for societal and stakeholder concerns.
The document is a report from the Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative that outlines their strategy to reduce poverty in Calgary. The strategy focuses on building strong, supportive communities; ensuring everyone has sufficient income and can build assets; improving access to services; and promoting equal participation of Aboriginal peoples. Key recommendations include establishing community hubs, building personal support networks, raising public awareness about poverty, supporting community economic development and social enterprises, and developing an integrated service access platform. The overall goal is to address the underlying causes of poverty in Calgary by harnessing community strengths and resources.
Objective of this research project NGO Helpers is to develop a framework for various NGOs. NGO Helpers recommend relevant users or interested users to NGO. After very deep analysis of user tweets user gets classified either as relevant user or irrelevant user and recommended to NGO working in that domain(e.g: Child Welfare, Women Welfare, Old Age, Animal Welfare,Healthcare).
The document discusses the reasons for forming cooperatives and the principles that guide them. It notes that cooperatives aim to address issues like lack of opportunities, income, education, and inequitable distribution of wealth. It then outlines the seven cooperative principles of democratic member control, member economic participation, autonomy and independence, education/training, cooperation among cooperatives, concern for community, and voluntary open membership. The principles are meant to establish a governance structure and distribute profits in a way that differs from other business types.
Presentation to encourage and educate on Social Entrepreneurship. Designed by Simon Stumpf and Mutembei Kariuki from Ashoka East Africa Using information from Ashoka and Potencia Ventures
Social economy describes sectors that operate between public and private sectors. Key elements include prioritizing people over capital, sustainable growth over profit, and democratic governance. Social economies aim to benefit communities by creating jobs, opportunities for volunteering and learning, and circulating wealth locally. Examples from Indonesia include DU'ANYAM, a social enterprise empowering women through wicker crafts, and 8Villages, a social network connecting farmers to information and technology to increase their earnings.
MakeSense Africa: Food Security Impact report 2017Victoria Peter
Global hunger statistics give much reason to be concerned. However, a close look on developments on the ground, shows much reason to be optimistic. Here are 7 overarching trends from West-Africa, and dozens of grassroots innovations that gives us reasons to start re-writing our story about global hunger.
We can do so by rethinking traditional roles. Through a collaborative effort, roles, skills and spheres of influence of NGOs, Beneficiaries, Business, Consumers and Government can be redefined.
GOONJ is one of India's leading NGOs, which recycles urban cloth into valuable resources for the rural poor. Some cloth is recycled into sanitary napkins. The issue of menstruation is often a taboo in India, and is seldom discussed in public. Unfortunately, millions of women suffer from various health problems due to a basic access to sanitary napkins. GOONJ has come up with a much needed ecologically friendly solution that needs to be scaled up throughout the villages of India.
The document discusses individual social responsibility (ISR) and its relationship to corporate social responsibility (CSR). ISR includes engaging with and actively participating in one's local community to help solve problems. It is about taking responsibility for how one's actions impact others. ISR is fundamental to CSR, as corporations are made up of individuals, and a culture of social responsibility starts with individuals. Promoting ISR can help strengthen CSR efforts. The document also describes an innovative ISR program that includes weekly road trips to visit social organizations and areas suffering to raise awareness of social issues.
Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in IndiaPuneeth Kamath
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit groups organized on a local, national, or international level. They are task-oriented and focus on issues like human rights, the environment, health, poverty eradication, and more. NGOs are classified based on their level of operation from community-based to international levels, and by their orientation ranging from charitable to empowering. In India, NGOs play important roles in entrepreneurship development, providing services like training, counseling, infrastructure development, and technical assistance. Several examples of prominent Indian NGOs active in entrepreneurship and other domains are described briefly in the document.
CSO Partners in collaboration with CII conducted a CSR Online Educational Series exclusively for NGOs. This is the second presentation in the series
It covers the following topic
- Opportunities and Challenges of Partnership
- Selection of Partners and Cause Alignment
- Building and Managing Effective Partnership
- Case Example
Presentation for the 16th Annual Environmental Sciences Symposium at Guelph University. Speaking mostly to undergrads I'm aiming to get them interested and get them out mucking about with it.
In the current job sphere, a career in NGO has started becoming more main stream. With strong governance structure, Akshaya Patra is one among the top 10 NGO in India for a prospective career option.
Social Innovation Blue Paper by promotional products retailer 4imprint4imprint
This document discusses social innovation and how corporations are embracing it. Social innovation involves companies finding solutions to social and environmental problems in a way that is profitable. It has benefits for both corporations and society. The document outlines some keys to successful social innovation, including having a clear social purpose, defining the need being addressed, measuring impact, partnering with others, and establishing structures within the company to support social innovation initiatives. Examples are given of companies like HP and Abbott that have had success with social innovation programs.
Social entrepreneurs are individuals who tackle social issues through innovative solutions and work to create wide-scale change. They notice needs in their communities and develop creative ways to address problems. Rather than focusing on making money, their goal is to remedy social issues. The document provides advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs, encouraging them to start small by helping even just one person if they cannot help many. It also recommends respecting local customs and not imposing outside ideas.
The presentation gives a brief description of what is social entrepreneurship, then describes 5 major socio-economic problems prevalent in India with the ideas about how to combat them rather than leaving societal needs to govt. These ideas were devised by social entrepreneurs.
This is the Novmeber 2011 issue of 'BDPAToday' distributed by our BDPA Washington DC chapter.
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O mundo está se tornando altamente conectado, com graus de separação diminuindo rapidamente. Isso significa que as pessoas estão se tornando parte de um organismo coletivo maior e o indivíduo social está nascendo. Os mundos altamente conectados tendem a ser inúmeros superorganismos humanos em vez de um mundo único, com muitas interfaces entre eles.
This document discusses sustainable development and green corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in India, using the TATA group as a case study. It begins by defining sustainability and CSR, noting that businesses are called to pursue economic growth while preserving natural resources. The document then discusses how India's rapid economic growth has led to environmental degradation, and how companies are adopting "green practices" through CSR to balance development and conservation. The TATA group is highlighted for its efforts in this area to contribute to sustainable development and environmental protection in India.
Informal cooperatives play an important role in sustainable livelihood development in Ethiopia. The document analyzes a case study of self-help groups (SHGs) established by an NGO in 12 towns to promote sustainable development. Over 260 SHGs were formed with over 6,700 members. The groups save regularly and provide loans to members, who have started small businesses. To date, the groups have over $5.8 million in capital. The intervention has improved members' self-esteem, social networks, and economic opportunities through business loans. Continued support for informal cooperatives is recommended to further promote livelihood development in local communities.
This document discusses CSR collaboration between companies and NGOs in India. It defines NGOs and their roles in areas like human rights, the environment, and poverty eradication. The document also categorizes NGOs based on their level of operation and orientation. It outlines the benefits of partnerships between companies and NGOs, including improved reputation and access to new markets for companies and increased funding and marketing for NGOs. Successful partnerships require effective communication, shared vision, and positive community relations.
Philanthropic Activities for all sorts of IssuesYosef Meystel
Here are a few examples of the sectors where philanthropic activities take place and the names of non-profits that work trying to provide solutions for the issues that rise and their corresponding sectors .
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works to preserve wilderness areas and reduce human impact on the environment. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are independent citizen-led organizations that provide services to members and communities in areas like humanitarian aid and social sciences. NGOs have a high degree of public trust and can advocate for societal and stakeholder concerns.
The document is a report from the Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative that outlines their strategy to reduce poverty in Calgary. The strategy focuses on building strong, supportive communities; ensuring everyone has sufficient income and can build assets; improving access to services; and promoting equal participation of Aboriginal peoples. Key recommendations include establishing community hubs, building personal support networks, raising public awareness about poverty, supporting community economic development and social enterprises, and developing an integrated service access platform. The overall goal is to address the underlying causes of poverty in Calgary by harnessing community strengths and resources.
Objective of this research project NGO Helpers is to develop a framework for various NGOs. NGO Helpers recommend relevant users or interested users to NGO. After very deep analysis of user tweets user gets classified either as relevant user or irrelevant user and recommended to NGO working in that domain(e.g: Child Welfare, Women Welfare, Old Age, Animal Welfare,Healthcare).
The document discusses the reasons for forming cooperatives and the principles that guide them. It notes that cooperatives aim to address issues like lack of opportunities, income, education, and inequitable distribution of wealth. It then outlines the seven cooperative principles of democratic member control, member economic participation, autonomy and independence, education/training, cooperation among cooperatives, concern for community, and voluntary open membership. The principles are meant to establish a governance structure and distribute profits in a way that differs from other business types.
Presentation to encourage and educate on Social Entrepreneurship. Designed by Simon Stumpf and Mutembei Kariuki from Ashoka East Africa Using information from Ashoka and Potencia Ventures
Social economy describes sectors that operate between public and private sectors. Key elements include prioritizing people over capital, sustainable growth over profit, and democratic governance. Social economies aim to benefit communities by creating jobs, opportunities for volunteering and learning, and circulating wealth locally. Examples from Indonesia include DU'ANYAM, a social enterprise empowering women through wicker crafts, and 8Villages, a social network connecting farmers to information and technology to increase their earnings.
MakeSense Africa: Food Security Impact report 2017Victoria Peter
Global hunger statistics give much reason to be concerned. However, a close look on developments on the ground, shows much reason to be optimistic. Here are 7 overarching trends from West-Africa, and dozens of grassroots innovations that gives us reasons to start re-writing our story about global hunger.
We can do so by rethinking traditional roles. Through a collaborative effort, roles, skills and spheres of influence of NGOs, Beneficiaries, Business, Consumers and Government can be redefined.
GOONJ is one of India's leading NGOs, which recycles urban cloth into valuable resources for the rural poor. Some cloth is recycled into sanitary napkins. The issue of menstruation is often a taboo in India, and is seldom discussed in public. Unfortunately, millions of women suffer from various health problems due to a basic access to sanitary napkins. GOONJ has come up with a much needed ecologically friendly solution that needs to be scaled up throughout the villages of India.
The document discusses individual social responsibility (ISR) and its relationship to corporate social responsibility (CSR). ISR includes engaging with and actively participating in one's local community to help solve problems. It is about taking responsibility for how one's actions impact others. ISR is fundamental to CSR, as corporations are made up of individuals, and a culture of social responsibility starts with individuals. Promoting ISR can help strengthen CSR efforts. The document also describes an innovative ISR program that includes weekly road trips to visit social organizations and areas suffering to raise awareness of social issues.
Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in IndiaPuneeth Kamath
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit groups organized on a local, national, or international level. They are task-oriented and focus on issues like human rights, the environment, health, poverty eradication, and more. NGOs are classified based on their level of operation from community-based to international levels, and by their orientation ranging from charitable to empowering. In India, NGOs play important roles in entrepreneurship development, providing services like training, counseling, infrastructure development, and technical assistance. Several examples of prominent Indian NGOs active in entrepreneurship and other domains are described briefly in the document.
CSO Partners in collaboration with CII conducted a CSR Online Educational Series exclusively for NGOs. This is the second presentation in the series
It covers the following topic
- Opportunities and Challenges of Partnership
- Selection of Partners and Cause Alignment
- Building and Managing Effective Partnership
- Case Example
Presentation for the 16th Annual Environmental Sciences Symposium at Guelph University. Speaking mostly to undergrads I'm aiming to get them interested and get them out mucking about with it.
In the current job sphere, a career in NGO has started becoming more main stream. With strong governance structure, Akshaya Patra is one among the top 10 NGO in India for a prospective career option.
Social Innovation Blue Paper by promotional products retailer 4imprint4imprint
This document discusses social innovation and how corporations are embracing it. Social innovation involves companies finding solutions to social and environmental problems in a way that is profitable. It has benefits for both corporations and society. The document outlines some keys to successful social innovation, including having a clear social purpose, defining the need being addressed, measuring impact, partnering with others, and establishing structures within the company to support social innovation initiatives. Examples are given of companies like HP and Abbott that have had success with social innovation programs.
Social entrepreneurs are individuals who tackle social issues through innovative solutions and work to create wide-scale change. They notice needs in their communities and develop creative ways to address problems. Rather than focusing on making money, their goal is to remedy social issues. The document provides advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs, encouraging them to start small by helping even just one person if they cannot help many. It also recommends respecting local customs and not imposing outside ideas.
The presentation gives a brief description of what is social entrepreneurship, then describes 5 major socio-economic problems prevalent in India with the ideas about how to combat them rather than leaving societal needs to govt. These ideas were devised by social entrepreneurs.
This is the Novmeber 2011 issue of 'BDPAToday' distributed by our BDPA Washington DC chapter.
♦ Industry News: The United States Marine Corps celebrates its 236th Birthday; Annual Supercomputing Conference (SC11) held in Seattle, WA...
♦ Chapter News: National BDPA honors BDPA Chapter Veterans who proudly served their country...
♦ GOV 2.0: The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has expanded several programs and hiring incentives for U.S. Veterans via: VA.gov
♦ Careers: Set sail on an exciting career with the United States Marine Corps defending America's Cyber Domain. Other opportunities with JPMorgan Chase and TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) also are featured...
♦ Marketplace:
SC11 - Large and small IT firms are offering cloud, virtualization, and cybersecurity solutions for "Big Data". Discover high performance computing (HPC)...
O mundo está se tornando altamente conectado, com graus de separação diminuindo rapidamente. Isso significa que as pessoas estão se tornando parte de um organismo coletivo maior e o indivíduo social está nascendo. Os mundos altamente conectados tendem a ser inúmeros superorganismos humanos em vez de um mundo único, com muitas interfaces entre eles.
This is a "strawman" public preview of an ongoing biofuels research project, focused on Ohio\'s emerging and potential biomass and biofuels industries.
Sistema de Informação Geográfica de Projectos de Engenharia FerroviáriaFernando Gil
O documento apresenta a implementação de um Sistema de Informação Geográfica (SIG) para o projeto de execução de uma nova estação ferroviária entre os pontos quilométricos 117+100 e 119+300 da Linha do Sul em Portugal. O SIG integra informações geográficas, alfanuméricas e imagens obtidas de várias fontes para o projeto, e fornece mapas detalhados sobre diversos aspectos do projeto como cartografia, geologia, via férrea e edificações.
SPED: GED - GERENCIAMENTO ELETRÔNICO DE DOCUMENTOS - POPULARIZANDO A DIGITALI...Professor Edgar Madruga
Material de Terceiros - Palestra: Como a Acesso Digital vem popularizando o GED no Brasil - Aplicável aos segmentos que tenham interesse em implantar digitalização e soluções de GED em seus processos. A era da simplicidade, Mundo do GED: fase de transição e Benefícios proporcionados pelo GED.
Com o SPED, os livros contábeis se tornam eletrônicos, mas muitos documentos que dão origem aos mesmos não. Esta tecnologia trabalha isso e entendo ser importante num processo de uso de TI nas empresas intensificado pelo SPED, a implantação tanto de ERP's quanto de soluções em GED.
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The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
- Ashoka envisions a world where everyone can drive social change and address social problems. It has supported over 300 social entrepreneurs in India over almost three decades working in fields like education, health, environment, economic development, and more.
- Ashoka fellows in India work across both rural and urban areas in all states, with an increasing number of women fellows. They develop innovative solutions and have national and global impact in their fields.
- Ashoka provides early support and belief in fellows' ideas, helping them develop their strategies and scale their impact. Fellows say this validation and introspective process is invaluable. Fellows also receive various awards and recognition for their work.
King Ashoka ruled the Mauryan Empire in the 3rd century BC and was one of India's greatest emperors. After conquering the kingdom of Kalinga, Ashoka witnessed tremendous bloodshed and suffering, which led him to adopt Buddhism. He propagated Buddhism throughout his empire and beyond, sending missionaries as far as Greece, Egypt, and Sri Lanka. Ashoka issued edicts emphasizing moral governance, nonviolence, and compassion. Though initially a conqueror, Ashoka came to regret war and dedicated his life to peace, ethics, and spreading the teachings of the Buddha.
1) The document discusses the history and development of community policing in the United States from the 1970s to present.
2) It notes that community policing aims to establish collaborative partnerships between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve to address public safety issues.
3) The approach emphasizes problem-solving techniques and community engagement to reduce crime by building trust and addressing community concerns.
- Ashoka belonged to the Mauryan Dynasty and was the third king.
- Before the Kalinga War, Ashoka conquered many lands and expanded his empire aggressively. However, the huge loss of life during the Kalinga War led him to adopt Buddhism and principles of nonviolence.
- After converting to Buddhism, Ashoka promoted Buddhist teachings, built monasteries, and sent missionaries to other countries. He is remembered today as an advocate of nonviolence.
7 formulacion inorganica ejemplos de peroxidosPaco_MS
El documento proporciona ejemplos de compuestos binarios que contienen peróxido, incluyendo sus nombres sistemáticos de IUPAC y comunes. Se enumeran varios peróxidos metálicos como Fe2(O2)3, Na2O2, V2(O2)5 y Cr(O2)3 junto con sus nombres. También se mencionan otros óxidos no metálicos como el peróxido de hidrógeno y el monóxido de carbono.
The SlideShare 101 is a quick start guide if you want to walk through the main features that the platform offers. This will keep getting updated as new features are launched.
The SlideShare 101 replaces the earlier "SlideShare Quick Tour".
Grupo Jade is a Mexican cooperative group formed in 2005 to promote social and common economy enterprises. It aims to generate better living conditions for poor communities through cooperatives, education, and sustainable local development projects. The group has over 13,000 individual members and operates various businesses across multiple Mexican states, with annual sales of over $700 million. It follows principles of democracy, solidarity, education, and social justice in its organizational structure and economic activities.
The document provides information about the 2011-2013 IUPUI Common Theme project titled "Change Your World: The Power of New Ideas". It will focus on social entrepreneurship using the book "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas" as a campus reader. The project aims to promote campus unity, conversation, and collaboration across disciplines on timely issues. It offers opportunities for active learning, service learning, research, and collaboration both on campus and with the community. The steering committee will help by celebrating current social entrepreneurship activities, collecting stories and research, and providing resources to pursue new ideas.
The document provides information about the 2011-2013 IUPUI Common Theme project titled "Change Your World: The Power of New Ideas". It will focus on social entrepreneurship using the book "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas" as a guide. The Common Theme is coordinated by a steering committee and aims to promote campus unity, conversation, and collaboration across disciplines on issues connecting IUPUI to the local community and world. It offers opportunities for active learning, service learning, research, and collaboration between campus and community.
The coalition published a joint brochure entitled "INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY - THE WAY FORWARD. Proposals from the NGO Coalition for a 2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity"
The first Healthy Lifestyle Gala will take place on June 18 to reward organizations and municipalities whose actions promoted healthy lifestyles. The gala will highlight projects that brought together highly motivated teams to innovate in developing more sustainable and liveable communities. Memphré en Mouvement also launched an online wiki platform to provide tools and resources to partners on topics like gardening workshops and the transition to kindergarten. A meeting was held to discuss citizen participation and the importance of cooperation between elected officials, citizens, and community leaders.
The first Healthy Lifestyle Gala will take place on June 18 to reward organizations and municipalities whose actions promoted healthy lifestyles. The gala will highlight projects that brought together highly motivated teams to innovate in developing more sustainable and liveable communities. Memphré en Mouvement also launched an online wiki platform to provide tools and resources to partners on topics like gardening workshops and the transition to kindergarten. A meeting was held to discuss citizen participation and the importance of cooperation between elected officials, citizens, and community leaders.
Social entrepreneurship aims to tackle social issues using business principles to create sustainable social change. Social entrepreneurs develop simple ideas to empower people to solve social problems themselves. They come up with new solutions and role models to motivate others. Social entrepreneurs can operate non-profits, for-profits, or hybrid models. Their focus is on social value over private value. They pursue opportunities relentlessly without resources and are accountable for outcomes. Social entrepreneurship combines social missions with business approaches to create change.
Peduli is a Government of Indonesia initiative managed by The Asia Foundation to promote social inclusion. It works with 79 civil society partners across 26 provinces and 84 districts to improve access to services, economic opportunities, and participation in community processes for marginalized groups. This program snapshot examines Peduli's emerging approaches, including positioning inclusion as a local governance issue, adopting systems-based approaches, and establishing coalitions for inclusion. By thinking and working politically through locally led and adaptive solutions, Peduli and its partners have made gains in mobilizing social change for excluded communities in diverse contexts.
Peduli is a Government of Indonesia initiative managed by The Asia Foundation to promote social inclusion. It works with 79 civil society partners across 26 provinces and 84 districts to support marginalized groups' access to public services, economic opportunities, and participation in community processes. This program snapshot examines Peduli's emerging approaches, including positioning inclusion as a local governance issue, adopting systems-based approaches, and establishing coalitions for inclusion among marginalized groups, local leaders, volunteers, and ascending levels of government. By thinking and working politically through locally-led and adaptive solutions, Peduli and its partners have made gains in mobilizing social change and improving outcomes for marginalized communities in diverse contexts.
The document outlines the two-day program for the Ashoka Changemakers' Campus, which includes sessions on developing skills to drive social change, exploring new alliances to increase impact, and building an economy that supports social entrepreneurs. On the first day, participants can choose sessions on getting started in changemaking or exploring pathways to impact, and the second day focuses on mapping innovative solutions and building collaborations to accelerate social change.
1. The document outlines a plan to launch a new non-profit organization and website called UnitingPeople that aims to connect humanitarian initiatives and participants from around the world to help address issues like poverty, inequality, and environmental problems.
2. The website will provide free exposure for registered humanitarian projects and enable participants to directly contribute skills, resources, or funding to projects of their choice in a transparent manner.
3. The founders have secured initial funding and sponsorships totaling 97,000 Euros and plan to officially launch the website and organization in November 2008.
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1. The document outlines a plan to launch a new non-profit organization and website called UnitingPeople that aims to connect humanitarian initiatives and participants from around the world to help address issues like poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation.
2. The website will provide free exposure for registered humanitarian projects and enable participants to directly contribute skills, time, or funds to projects of their choosing in a fully transparent manner.
3. The founders have secured initial funding and sponsorships totaling 97,000 Euros and plan to officially launch the website and organization in November 2008 alongside a major humanitarian forum in Barcelona.
Interested in attending the Exchange? Check out the highlights of the 2017 Exchange to learn more about attendees, what the most popular sessions were, and the feedback we received.
The VASK Volunteers programme mobilizes volunteers to contribute to peace and sustainable development worldwide. It recruits action-oriented volunteers to support VASK's community development programs in areas like sustainable development, disaster management, education, and job creation. VASK volunteers contributed 187,000 hours of service last year on diverse projects like tree planting and community events. VASK is committed to diversity and inclusion among its 4,500 members nationwide and seeks to remove obstacles to professional growth for all groups.
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2. Table of Contents
Your Guide to Ashoka Greece
Ashoka Around the World
Overview of Ashoka Greece
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Impact to Date 2
Creating a Nation of Change 3
Launching Ashoka Greece
Competition: Destination Change
Ashoka U in Greece
Next Phase
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5
7
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Appendix I: Our Team
Appendix II: Ashoka Greece in the Public Eye
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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.
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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).
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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
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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
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)
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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
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
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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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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
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