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	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Ashoka
		Ashoka: Innovators for the Public returns to Seattle this week to induct 10 newly selected Fellows, leading social entrepreneurs recognized for their innovative solutions to some of society?s most pressing social and environmental challenges.
		Ashoka Alvarez, a third-grader at Fairmount Elementary, said she was excited to see the musical along with about 20 other students, who scored top- notch seats to a Jan. 31 benefit show for three of the city's public schools.
		The difference between the new ensign and the one that the navy flew before Aug 15, 2001, is the superimposition of the state emblem of Ashoka Lions in golden colour at the intersection of the red cross.
	nonprofit.surfwax.com /files/Ashoka.html

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Ashoka
		Ashoka: Innovators for the Public returns to Seattle this week to induct 10 newly selected Fellows, leading social entrepreneurs recognized for their innovative solutions to some of society?s most pressing social and environmental challenges.
		Ashoka Alvarez, a third-grader at Fairmount Elementary, said she was excited to see the musical along with about 20 other students, who scored top- notch seats to a Jan. 31 benefit show for three of the city's public schools.
		The difference between the new ensign and the one that the navy flew before Aug 15, 2001, is the superimposition of the state emblem of Ashoka Lions in golden colour at the intersection of the red cross.
	nonprofit.surfwax.com /files/Ashoka.html

	PND News - Ashoka Names Fellows From U.S. and Canada
		Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia, that works to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship worldwide, has recognized sixteen social entrepreneurs from the United States and Canada as 2004 Ashoka Fellows.
		Ashoka Fellows are individuals who share qualities traditionally associated with business entrepreneurs — vision, innovation, determination, and long-term commitment — but are committed to systemic social change in Ashoka's areas of interest: learning/youth development, the environment, health, human rights, economic development, and civic engagement.
		Fellows receive up to a three-year financial stipend to allow them to concentrate fully on their programs, and in addition may apply for supplemental funding for collaborative projects and are eligible for training and technical assistance.
	fdncenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=87600012 (263 words)

	Ashoka
		Ashoka : Innovators for the Public is a global non-profit organisation with its Washington D.C., U.S.A. They work in 44 countries all ovr the world, providing Fellowships to individuals (not to projects) who are crafting new solutions for existing social problems.
		Ashoka recognises that financial investment is not enough for the successful launch of its Fellows and their powerful ideas.
		The recipients of the fellowships are "social entrepreneurs" who are working on new ideas in any field of development (health, gender rights, human rights, education, income generation etc.) and have the blueprint for replicating their ideas for national and international impact.
	www.indianngos.com /a/ashoka (229 words)

	EVENT PROFILE
		As the President and Founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Drayton is dedicated to the establishment of a worldwide profession of "social entrepreneurs." Social entreprenuers must have both an idea for social change and the entrepreneurial drive to achieve its realization.
		According to Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, "Ashoka is one of the most important undertakings anywhere." In 1999, Drayton received the 1999 Common Cause Public Service Achievement Award for his work with Ashoka.
		He has also received the American Society of Public Administration's joint National Public Service award and the Yale School of Management's Award for Entreprenurial Excellence.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/spectrum/more.php?id=092000 (288 words)

	Calendar Highlight
		Founded by grass-roots organizer Bill Drayton, after his travels through Asia and his experiences with the U.S. civil rights movement, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is based on a social venture-capital model.
		Bill Drayton, founder and president of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
		Drayton kicks off this season’s USC Spectrum and College of Letters, Arts and Sciences lecture series, “Responsible Capitalism: How to Laugh All the Way to the Bank Without Becoming Morally Bankrupt,” on Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/5827.html (235 words)

	How to Change the* World*
		Drayton founded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a non-profit organization, which elected its first "Ashoka Fellow," in India in 1981.
		Bornstein concentrates on Ashoka because "it is the only organization that has been actively monitoring this phenomenon at the global level for more than twenty years.
		Just as Drayton describes Gandhi, one of his role models, as a strategist rather than a saint, Bornstein approaches social entrepreneurs as smart, capable people with pragmatic ideas for matching needs and resources.
	www.globalenvision.org /library/2/626 (1185 words)

	Berman-Bieler, Rosangela. "Inter-American Institute on Disability."
		In 1989 she was named a Lifetime Fellow by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an international foundation for public entrepreneurs, in recognition of her innovative contributions to the public sector.
		There will be a regional Office for Latin-America located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to develop and to promote IID's activities in the region.
		Known internationally for her expertise on Latin American disability issues, especially media, women's issues and independent living, she is a member of numerous organizations.
	www.independentliving.org /docs6/berman-bieler.html (1185 words)

	The Heinz School - News and Events
		Drayton is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
		As a student, he was active in civil rights and founded a number of organizations, ranging from Yale Legislative Services to Harvard's Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences.
		Drayton served in the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he launched emissions trading (the basis of Kyoto), among other reforms.
	www.heinz.cmu.edu /whatsnew/2005/drayton_address.html (334 words)

	Changemakers
		Shaheen is a Fellow of Ashoka Innovators for the Public, a global non-profit organisation set up in 1981 to build an association of social entrepreneurs who will undertake socially productive and innovative work in health, education, human rights, civic participation, environment and economic development (www.ashokaind.org/ www.ashoka.org).
		The result is generational illiteracy, more kids growing up without an understanding of how to break the cycle of poverty.
		Yet the idea that middle class-oriented schools will integrate poor kids and work to serve the poor is still not widely accepted.
	www.infochangeindia.org /changemakers18.jsp (334 words)

	Global Ethics Dialog - Creative Connections
		In 2004-5, Creative Connections, The Institute for Global Ethics and Ashoka, Innovators for the Public, are facilitating a second year of this exciting ethics-based youth dialogue.
		This program is engaging over 100 students and young people from Ashoka-fellow founded groups in India, Colombia, Poland, South Africa, and the USA in a lively exploration of the ethical issues found in their society and in their world.
		By way of creating and sharing letter scrapbooks, taking a common ethics survey, and by active participation in an on-line conference, this group is getting to know and relate to one another as fellow youth who are concerned about the world they live in.
	www.creativeconnections.org /global_ethics_dialog/index.php (334 words)

	Social Entrepreneurs-Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship(CASE)-The Fuqua School of Business-Duke University
		Changemakers.net: Changemakers is an initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public that focuses on the rapidly growing world of social entrepreneurship.
		The Rockefeller Foundation’s Double Bottom Line Project produced the first catalog of methods that for-profit and nonprofit social ventures and enterprises are using to assess the social impact of their activities.
		Stanford Social Innovation Review: Published by the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Business School, the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s mission is to share substantive insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better.
	www.fuqua.duke.edu /centers/case/leaders/resources.htm (334 words)

	Ashoka: Innovators for the Public - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is a global nonprofit organization located in Arlington Virginia USA and is the world largest association of leading social entrepreneurs.
		Ashoka was founded by Bill Drayton in 1981 to identify and financially support leading social entrepreneurs though social venture capital with the goal of elevating the citizen sector to a competitive level equal to the business sector.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashoka:_Innovators_for_the_Public (150 words)

	Bill Drayton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drayton founded and currently heads a global citizen sector organization, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
		After attending New York's public schools, Bill went on the Harvard (BA 1965), Oxford (MA 1967), and Yale Law (JD 1970).
		William ("Bill") Drayton (born 1943) is an American social entrepreneur and environmentalist from New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Drayton (162 words)

	Serve and profit, Drayton urges
		Drayton, the founder of Youth Venture and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Get America Working!, was introduced as a man who seeks to help social entrepreneurs fulfill their goals.
		Jennifer Wolch, a professor of geography, introduced the speakers, and afterwards commended the audience for being "attentive and interested." She also noted that the several dozen students who stayed after the presentation to speak with Drayton "indicates that Bill's message is important to students in the audience and in the university."
		Because the slavery often crossed national lines and the governments of Singapore and Thailand refused to cooperate on the issue, concerned citizens took the matter to the World Court, which was able to address the matter.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V141/N17/01-serve.17c.html (614 words)

	AlterNet: The Global Citizen: Venture Capital
		To provide venture capital for public innovators, Drayton founded an organization called Ashoka.
		"Public entrepreneurs," says Drayton, "are rare men and women who possess the same exceptional levels of vision, creativity and determination that allow top business entrepreneurs to create new industries.
		The idea Bill Drayton began working on sixteen years ago seemed far-out then and seems farther out now.
	www.alternet.org /story/4231 (1067 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com
		Drayton is the founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an international organization based in Arlington, Va., that has supported 937 social entrepreneurs in 33 countries - all local people involved in self-started projects ranging from slum improvement to saving girls from prostitution.
		Louis Harris, founder of the Harris poll, applauds Ashoka's efforts for finding and supporting individuals with vision.
		While Drayton worked at the Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1970s, and at the international consulting firm of McKinsey & Company later, he and his friends traveled to countries seeking people who had reputations for social advocacy at the local level.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/1999/02/10/fp16s1-csm.shtml (1095 words)

	Executive Dean, Richard Cavanagh, Named President and CEO of the Conference Board
		Cavanagh is a Trustee of Wesleyan University; a Director of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public; Judge of the Harvard University Dively Award for Corporate Responsibility.
		Richard E. Cavanagh, Executive Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for the last eight years, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of The Conference Board, Inc., the global research and business membership organization.
		Cavanagh had a 17-year career with McKinsey and Company, Inc., where he led the firm's public image consulting practices.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgpress/ksg_news/announcemts/dickc.htm (1095 words)

	Articles - Bill Drayton
		Drayton founded and currently heads a global citizen sector organization, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
		After attending New York's public schools, William went on the Harvard (BA 1965), Oxford (MA 1967), and Yale Law (JD 1970).
		For other men with this name, see William Drayton (disambiguation).
	www.lightmag.com /articles/William_Drayton_(environmentalist)?mySession=fddfaeca7952da11840d508c395eff12 (1095 words)

	ECEAT-POLAND
		Jadwiga Lopata from Poland, the Polish initiator of the ICPPC, a member of ASHOKA-Innovators for the Public.
		The protection of the Polish countryside is not only a vital issue for Poland but for individuals and organizations in other countries as well.
		Jadwiga is the owner of a small organic farm.
	www.poland.eceat.org /ecocentre.htm (174 words)

	The Communication Initiative - Discussion Forums - What Does It Take to Be a Social Entrepreneur?
		The event is sponsored by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the Skoll Foundation.
		Topics include: what makes social entrepreneurs tick, do you have the qualities of a social entrepreneur, what is the state of the field - stable or chaotic, can local initiatives be expanded into major regional, national and international change programmes, and where do those who drive social change find practical tips.
		What Does It Take to Be a Social Entrepreneur?
	www.comminit.com /DiscussionForums/sld-8651.html (174 words)

	Sectorial weekly schedules
		The International Coalition for the Protection of the Polish Countryside invites to news conference co-sponsored by the Ashoka Co. (The Innovators for the Public Weal USA).
		For further detailed information, please, call the organiser: the Starogard Gdański County Office, phone: (+48 58) 56-30-029.
		The Congress is organised by the Starogard Gdański County Office, and Municipal Offices in Tczew, Starogard Gdański, and Świecie on the Vistula River, as well as by the "Kociewska Więźba" ("The Kociewo Fellows") Federation of Associations and Unions.
	www.mos.gov.pl /mos/news/tydzien_eng_2000/mo20-11-2000.html (581 words)

	Creative Resourcing: Venture Philanthropy – Strategic Investments for Social Progress
		Venture philanthropy is an emerging field of philanthropic "double bottom-line investment" that combines the policies and practices of long-term investment and venture capital models of the for-profit sector with the principles and public-benefit missions of the nonprofit sector.
		Investing in Individual Social Innovators: Organizations like the echoing green foundation (New York, USA) and Ashoka (Arlington, USA) provide targeted financial and capacity-building support to individuals they refer to as "social entrepreneurs" – individual leaders who address a critical social problem in a particularly unique or effective way.
		The venture philanthropy model may not be appropriate for all nonprofits or donors, but that is not an argument to discredit a field that resonates for many.
	www.changemakers.net /resources/monthly/0401sheep.cfm (2003 words)

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