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Largest Flash Sale Website Helps Spreads Message to Choose Wisely

With an intention to empower the low-income customers with a tool to help take qualified decisions about their houses; Ashoka signed a MoU with TÜV Rheinland to develop a first of its kind certification in India for the affordable housing sector

New report points to maturing of environmental sustainability concerns and practices in the United States and identifies business practitioners’ top six priorities.

CapeRace™ Cultural Adventures selected as finalist of 250 entries for the National Geographic/Ashoka Changemaker’s Geotourism Challenge

The "Changing Lives Through Football" campaign will appear on Nike's Web site, Changemakers.com and Facebook to identify, inspire and unleash the potential of young people, strengthen their communities, boost development, and affect change.

A new initiative that brings together Social Entrepreneurs and International Business Leaders to globalize social innovations.

The Group of 20 and Ashoka’s Changemakers launched an online competition today to find the best models worldwide for public-private partnerships that catalyze finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It is the first competition by the G-20.

Gijs Spoor has been awarded the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in recognition of his innovative approach to rural development as Director of Zameen Organic, a farmer-owned cotton marketing company.

Rachel Lloyd, the founder and executive director of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services has been recognized by the renowned Ashoka organization as one of the worlds leading social entrepreneurs and awarded its prestigious “Ashoka Fellowhip”.

ARLINGTON, VA - Ashoka’s Youth Venture ARLINGTON, VA - June 30, 2009. Ashoka’s Youth Venture has named seventeen young changemakers as national ambassadors at their Summit in Boston, MA, 6/26/09 - 6/29/09 with workshops at MIT & Harvard

Ashoka’s Youth Venture and Best Buy Invite Teens Nationwide to Select Winners of the @15 Challenge

Changemakers Competition "Banking on Social Change: Seeking Financial Solutions for All," a worldwide search for financial-service projects that use the transformative power of innovation and skills to achieve real economic and social change.

Ashoka has cooked its way up the curry ladder, figuring in The Times top 10 Indian restaurants

Sheffield’s premier Indian restaurant, Ashoka, has cooked its way up the curry ladder, emerging as an A-list entry in the 2007 Good Curry Guide.