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those of us who invest in ashoka – with our time, our money, our ideas – do so because we see in ashoka a unique opportunity to catalyze big change.
over the last 30 years, ashoka has built the world’s largest association of leading social entrepreneurs: ashoka fellows. these innovators are practical visionaries who introduce and fully commit themselves to realizing an important, new idea to solve pressing social problems and open new opportunities for citizens to be changemakers. with creativity and entrepreneurial skill, they push ahead their idea until it changes a pattern through wide adoption, resulting in significant social impact.today, we offer you the opportunity to catalyze some of the united states’ leading social entrepreneurs through a fund of 7 fully vetted ashoka fellows.through a tax-deductible financial contribution, you can partner with ashoka to shape the future of the country and support the entrepreneurs who are leading game-changing social innovations in many fields, from health to education and the environment. 100% of your money will go directly to these ashoka fellows.
· fund total: $600,000· closing date: august 31st, 2012
“if one organization has had a profound impact in lumni’s evolution, that organization is ashoka.”
felipe vergara, lumni founder and ceo, ashoka fellow since 2006
“trust me, ashoka is indispensable for social entrepreneurship to survive, grow and thrive.”gregory van kirk, founder of the new development solutions group, ashoka fellow since 2008
“i have been constantly blown away by the generosity and vision of ashoka. they have been unselfish in sharing donors. they have been unmatched as a thought partner, helping me and my organization to see connections in our work that transcend geographic boundaries and the usual discipline silos. and they have been unparalleled as a connector. my own experience as an ashoka fellow has been nothing short of transformational.”
Jill vialet, founder of playworks, ashoka fellow since 2004
fellow testimonials
the innovators
david wishDavid’s organization, little kid’s rock, uses music education to offer children and teachers heightened opportunities to engage with each there as fearless co-creators and active, inspired learning partners. David is introducing an approach to learning music that builds twenty-first century skills, helping children see that they can generate content, fail without fear, iteratively advance toward a goal, and work in teams.
Begun in 2001 in New Jersey, the effort now reaches over 160,000 students and 700 teachers in 24 cities across the United States.
http://usa.ashoka.org/fellow/david-wish
kirsten tobey & kristin richmondKirsten & Kristin, both former educators, understand that the food served in schools significantly impacts students’ performance and lays the foundation for behavioral patterns around eating that extend both to the home and into adulthood. As such, Kirsten & Kristin are transforming nutrition in low-income communities by providing healthy, fresh school lunches and changing attitudes of principals, teachers, and parents about what’s expected and possible with regard to nutrition standards in schools.
Today their organization, revolution foods, reaches 70,000 students and Kirsten & Kristin expect to double their reach and impact in the next 2 years.
http://usa.ashoka.org/fellow/kristin-richmond
paul bradleyPaul is creating a scalable approach that enables the country’s 2.7 million homeowners in manufactured home communities, also known as “mobile home parks”, to achieve economic security, fuller protections against excessive rents, reduced threat to health, safety and eviction, and full economic citizenship by cooperatively buying and managing the land on which their homes sit.
His organization, resident owned communities (or roc usa), arranges the financing and other supports to allow residents to jointly own the land under their homes, build assets over time, and democratically manage their community. In just four years, ROC USA has helped co-ops purchase communities in 12 states, preserve over 2,100 affordable homes, and leverage over $71 million in commercial financing.
http://usa.ashoka.org/fellow/paul-bradley
philipp schmidtPhilipp has set out to change not what we learn, but how we learn. Through his organization, Peer 2 Peer University, peer learners from around the world connect around topics they care about and skills they wish to master, harnessing the vast wealth of high-quality, openly-licensed education materials currently available over the internet. Students act as both teacher and learner, and are thus able to collaborate throughout the course development process, beginning with design, and extending through co-teaching and peer evaluation.
In two years time, peer 2 peer university has grown to a community of 1,000+ and is on the path for major scale.
https://p2pu.org/en
Jason mclennanThrough the International Living Building Institute, Jason is creating incentives and new practices so that the built environment improves health and well-being while increasing our access to a diverse and productive natural world. The result of Jason’s approach is that builders and designers conceptualize buildings or neighborhoods as a whole, and therefore avoid shifting burdens from one environmental or social objective to another.
Jason launched the living building challenge as a certification system that sets up incentives for system change and enables building industry stakeholders to re-imagine their roles. Currently, there are four Certified Living buildings and 100 projects that have registered to become certified. By 2017, Jason’s goal is to have 50 certified buildings with 500 projects registered and – importantly – shared.
http://usa.ashoka.org/fellow/jason-mclennan
sasha chanoffSasha is pioneering a new role for effective and professional citizen organizations in the refugee resettlement process. His organization, refugepoint, works to transform and improve the sphere of refugee resettlement through a variety of interlinking strategies centered around creating the infrastructure and know-how for an appropriately trained citizen sector to work with the United Nations Refugee Agency and governments in ways that improve equity and access to life-saving solutions for the most vulnerable refugees.
While the citizen sector used to account for one percent of refugee resettlement referrals from Africa before RefugePoint came along, thanks to Sasha’s pioneering work, it now contributes to more than 25 percent of referrals today.
http://usa.ashoka.org/fellow/sasha-chanoff
fletcher harperFletcher and his team at greenfaith, inspire, educate and mobilize people of diverse religious backgrounds for environmental leadership. Working through an interfaith approach, the work is based on beliefs shared by the world’s great religions - they believe that protecting the earth is a religious value, and that environmental stewardship is a moral responsibility.
Through his organization GreenFaith, Fletcher aims to realize wide impact over the next decade, bringing a broad faith-based network into the environmental action fold and position the religious sector as a key ally, distribution network and partner for environmental improvement.
http://usa.ashoka.org/fellow/fletcher-harper
contact informationPaula [email protected] Englebrook [email protected]
