Action for India has launched the Growth Prize Competition on Ashoka Changemakers platform for Indian social innovators and enterprises. The purpose of the Growth Prize Competition is to identify social entrepreneurs who demonstrate constant success or progress in scaling— or preparing to scale—their ventures and impact. The Competition deadline is now extended until June 18, [...]

Guest Post Ashoka’s Changemakers has launched an online competition to find the best solutions to integrate and develop affordable, inclusive and sustainable urban housing. This challenge especially seeks to identify solutions that respond to communities’ needs, work with the existing infrastructure, respect local, indigenous culture, materials, and practice, and can be applied to a wide [...]

Ashoka’s Changemakers just announced the finalists for their newest web-based competition - Leveraging Business For Social Change: Building The Field Of Social Business. Changemakers is an Ashoka initiative, begun in 1994, that advances the vision of an “Everyone a Changemaker” world. Through online collaborations and communication, Changemakers helps advance and scale blossoming social innovations. The entries submitted [...]

Developed by both Ashoka and EngenderHealth’s Maternal Health Task Force: “[t]he Young Champions of Maternal Health Program will use the Changemakers online platform to identify 16 young leaders from around the world who will win a trip to the Maternal Health Change Summit in India and spend nine months working abroad on a maternal health [...]

TCI had earlier discussed open innovation as an emerging tool for social entrepreneurs. An excellent initiative in this field is Ashoka Changemakers, which provides an online space for social innovators to present ideas and collaborate with others on refining and implementing them. Changemakers is building the world’s first global online “open source” community that competes [...]

Ashoka Changemakers and Citi are partnering “in the search for innovative and cutting-edge methods that allow financial security to become a reality for everyone” by offering an online challenge titled “Banking on Social Change – Seeking Financial Solutions for All.” The competition is designed to reach the world’s entrepreneurs and challenge them to use their [...]

The Global Water Challenge, a competition put on by Ashoka Changemakers, is taking votes right now on their selected finalists. Titled “Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis,” voting for the projects is open until Sunday, May 11. Ashoka’s Changemakers and Global Water Challenge have partnered to open a worldwide search for ideas [...]