Ashoka Rated Excellent in Charity Evaluation

For the 7th consecutive year, Ashoka has been awarded the highest possible rating as a philanthropic organization in an evaluation by Charity Navigator for 2008. Charity Navigator is an independent evaluator that rates the fiscal health of charity organizations. By evaluating charities on their organizational efficiency and organizational capacity, Charity Navigator calculates how well organizations [...]

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Comprehensive community development in Al Sheikh Yaqub

Fellow Sameh Seif is taking the concept of community development to a whole new level with his current project “Ro’ya”, in which he is rebuilding the entire village of Al-Sheikh Yaqub, located in the Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef, from scratch! This massive achievement includes the construction of new homes (and the reconstructing of existing [...]

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Ashoka founder Bill Drayton in Newsweek

Bill Drayton recently offered his views in Newsweek article on the benefits modern technology has to offer for social entrepeneurs. In the article, Bill points out the uses Web 2.0 can have for increasingly effective innovation. He links the open nature of most virtual media nowadays to the bottom-up, collaborative and innovative nature of a [...]

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Fellow Sani Youssef Launches Website

The organization of our Fellow Sani Youssef, ‘Friends for Life’, has recently entered the virtual sphere with the launch of its website. Sani and ‘Friends for Life’ are working to improve the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in Egypt,  providing psycho-social counseling and medical treatment to patients, as well as combating the deprecatory social [...]

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Fellow Mohamed Abbad Andaloussi in Stanford Interview

Ashoka Arab world Fellow Mohamed Abbad Andaloussi appeared as a guest in Stanford University’s ‘Design for Change’ program, in an interview to talk about his organisation ‘Al Jisr‘ (‘The Bridge’). Mohamed is significantly improving the quality of education in Morocco, inciting the entrepeneurial spirit of Moroccan students, and engaging the business sector in Morocco in [...]

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