Ashoka

How Donors Can Maximize Social Returns

The global financial crisis has forced many donors to scale back their charitable giving, and nonprofit organizations are bracing for more severe reductions in 2009 and beyond. It is now more important than ever that...

Staples social entrepreneur contest names winners

The cofounders of Gardens for Health International, which provides nutritional support and economic empowerment to HIV-positive individuals in Rwanda, are the global winners of a "Youth Social Entrepreneur" competition...

Inside the Activists’ Studio, DC and NY, cosponsored by Jewschool

Christ on a cracker, I have never seen so many Jewish social justice organizations in one place. These orgs are the answer to the staid and hobbled mainstream, at least in our eyes, and their presence in the Jewish world is all...

Talia Leman for president

If your image of a philanthropist is a stout, gray geezer, then meet Talia Leman, an eighth-grader in Iowa who loves soccer and swimming, and whose favorite subject is science. I'm supporting her for president in 2044.

Make A Difference (MAD) short listed for Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Award

From correspondents in Kerala, India, 06:07 PM IST Make A Difference (MAD), a youth voluntary network working in the three Indian cities of Cochin, Pune and Chennai, has been shortlisted as a finalist in Ashoka Foundation’s...

Evan Visits the New Nike Store in Emeryville, California

Juxtapoz Managing Editor Evan Pricco got a rare treat from Nike yesterday. In celebration of the opening of their brand spanking new NikeStore in Emeryville, California (for all our out of state readers, Emeryville is just a...

To make a greater difference

If we win, we get to represent India and our cause on a global platform at the Youth Venture Summit KOCHI: Make A Difference (MAD), a youth voluntary network working in three Indian cities, including Kochi, is among the...