The Ashoka Innovative Learning Initiative

摘要

Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Since 1981, Ashoka has invested in over 1200 leading social entrepreneurs ("Ashoka Fellows") in 42 countries around the world. These Ashoka Fellows are working in every area of social need, including education, the environment, health care, economic development, housing and law reform. To draw on the experiences of these powerful innovators, Ashoka launched the Global Initiatives in 1999. The Global Initiatives are identifying and documenting the most successful ideas and strategies Ashoka Fellows are using to bring about broad, systemic social change, and to disseminate these ideas worldwide. The first Global Initiative launched was the Innovative Learning Initiative (ILI) due to the fact that almost a quarter of all Ashoka Fellows are working in the areas of education and/or youth development. The present paper summarizes the principles of this initiative and gives examples of these principles citing the work of several Ashoka Fellows.