Bill Drayton is the founder of Ashoka, Youth Venture, and Get America Working -- three deeply complementary efforts to make the world a better place. Ashoka, the oldest and larger of these ventures, has created a global community of over 2000 leading social entrepreneurs in over 70 countries around the world. Bill talks about these three projects in this extended interview with Michael Lerner of The New School at Commonweal.

Follow children's stories about the everyday lives of real children growing up in India. (98 pages)

Published by Charlesbridge Publishing

Ashoka Fellow Vera Cordeiro speaks about her organization Renascer, a health and social service provider that she is franchising and replicating across Brazil and beyond. Vera is working to better manage children's health through an innovative model that addresses the root cause of poverty these children live in. A Design for Change interview conducted by Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman.

Ashoka Fellow Feliciano Reyna, Founder of Acción Solidaria, discusses the value of using a 'comprehensive AIDS care' approach where education plays a vital role alongside prevention and care.  A Design for Change interview conducted by Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman.

Bill Drayton is one of the leaders featured in "GlobalBiz: Let's Get Social," a podcast created by Peter Day of BBC. In this edition, Peter travels to Oxford to the Skoll World Forum on Entrepreneurship, and hears from some of the social entrepreneurs gathered there to discuss how to apply business knowhow to social problems.

Listen to Rafael Alvarez, founder of Genesys Works, speak about his organization's work to give low-income teens training in high-tech jobs and exposure to professional work environments. He talks about what makes his organization successful and its current expansion efforts. A Design for Change interview conducted by Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman.

Listen to Beulah Thumbadoo, founder of Everyone's Reading in Africa discuss her decades long work to promote adult literacy in South Africa and the rest of the world. She speaks about her organization and its work, and she shares lessons she has learned. A Design for Change interview conducted by Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman.

Kim Feinberg grew up in apartheid South Africa, where her experience with discrimination instilled a strong belief that there is a lot to learn from past atrocities. Not content to just document those experiences, she created the Foundation for Education Tolerance to teach the lessons of global atrocities to young people. Hear Feinberg discuss describe how her organization, the Tomorrow Trust, uses education to help these children grow into self sufficient, economically productive, and socially included adults. A Design for Change interview conducted by Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman.

In this conversation Sushmita Ghosh describes Ashoka and her new work with Changemakers, an Ashoka program that extends social entrepreneurship to a wider global community. Changemakers is pioneering a transparent online community that "open sources" innovative solutions to social problems worldwide. With its focus on thematic, collaborative competitions, it has sourced over 500 high-impact action blueprints for solving social problems.

Listen to Brij Kothari, President of PlanetRead speak about his work to improve literacy in India through a technique called same-language subtitling.  Unlike traditional subtitling, which gives a native translation to foreign-produced entertainment, same language subtitling shows the written representation of the words being spoken.  A Design for Change interview conducted by Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Sheela Sethuraman.