Word: ashoka
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...While there, we sat down with Bill Drayton ’65, chair and CEO of Ashoka International: Innovators for the Public, one of the leading organizations that
...What role does Ashoka play in satisfying this vision of change...
...focus on the moment, when an idea and an entrepreneur intersect in their life cycles. Then, the entrepreneur steps out of the mold. No one will support them, but Ashoka will. By year five, our fellows, who we select as the most influential entrepreneurs in a country, half of them change social policy in their country. We make a very small investment, but with this, you create a huge social impact...
...What does Ashoka mean...
...It’s Sanskrit for “the act of absence of sorrow,” but we base it off Ashoka the Great, the Indian emperor, who reigned over India’s military empire in the third century B.C. He led many bloody military conquests, but afterward, he felt a deep regret for his actions, so he put up edicts, in stone, across the empire. They read, “the wars and bloodshed were wrong and unjust...