Word: ashoka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Drayton Jr. '65 called his firm, the Ashoka Society, a "non-profit venture firm trying to help the very best public service entrepreneurs get started...
...very fact that Ashoka is now functioning is a statement that some of the supporting infrastructure [for international public entrepreneur programs] is coming into place," said Drayton, who also founded Enviromental Safety--an organization which unofficially monitors President Reagan and the Environmental Protection Agency...
...Ashoka funds people in a variety of fields, ranging from education to medicine to waste managment, who propose innovative solutions to their countries' problems. Fellows include a Bombay woman who has established a system to replace rote learning in the schools and a Brazilian consumer activist...
...HRIDF, trying to raise funds for Ashoka, set up tables in dining halls last week to talk to students and receive aid. "The response was very disappointing," said Chaudhuri...
...Ashoka Society, based in India, is hoping to raise $400,000 in the United States...