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And the people who are the changemakers for the future?
Here are the changemakers working to make that goal a reality.
Dhang Tecson, co-founder of social enterprise Fishers and Changemakers Inc.
Also, the initial 'Storytelling for Changemakers' program wasn't designed towards mental health and psychosocial support, but now we're increasingly seeing that our young Syrian changemakers are organically using our storytelling tool for mental health and psychosocial needs.
Both scholarships are part of Gucci Changemakers Scholarship Program in North America.
Their nonprofit, Story Pirates Changemakers, brings literacy programs to schools around the country.
What makes me optimistic about the future is young changemakers in our network.
YBCA is interested in working with changemakers who live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
GivingTuesday's worldwide platform connects donors with charitable causes, and also connects changemakers from throughout the country.
A full roster of panelists included changemakers, global citizens, and progressive thought leaders from around the world.
I have the opportunity to work with superhero educators and student changemakers, who educate me every single day.
The solution lies in anyone with power doing what they can to raise up the next generation of changemakers.
Rihannazine highlights a cast of brilliant changemakers who are set to re-shape culture and their communities in 2020.
Earlier this year, Gucci launched two scholarships under its Gucci Changemakers Scholarship Program in North America: Gucci Changemaker Scholars and Gucci Changemakers x CFDA Scholars by Design Program, in partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, both of which seek to give $20,000 fashion scholarships to those from underrepresented areas.
Full citizenship in this century demands all young people be effective changemakers, fully engaged and fully invested in leading change.
You can have a nation filled with local changemakers, but if the government is rotten their work comes to little.
Kaepernick is just one of several athletes-turned-changemakers that Nike will spotlight in its latest "Just Do It" campaign.
Simply called "Gucci Changemakers," the program's aim is to fuel the company's commitment to lasting social impact, according to a press release.
"Employers have the ability – and responsibility – to be changemakers in society," Executive Director Evelyne Paradis told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
Day after day, for upwards of twelve hours during the week, the Changemakers had this message reinforced with sessions led by Change.
Over NBA All-Star Weekend, Gucci opened a pop-up store celebrating the recipients of its first Gucci Changemakers North America grant.
From women's suffrage to the fight for civil rights, there is much to be learned from those changemakers who came before us. 11.
Two young people from North America are among a group of changemakers spreading the word about the legacy of the late Princess Diana.
As is the case with changemakers, skeptics worry Mwangi's influence will be stifled by parliament; that he can be more effective on the outside.
Atomico's Zennström has long argued that entrepreneurs, not politicians, are the new "changemakers" because of the way technology is reshaping society and the economy.
But though the cataclysmic power of volcanoes usually takes precedent, it's worth taking a moment to appreciate their role as ecological changemakers—albeit, forceful ones.
One question has fascinated me my entire adult life: what causes some people to become world-class leaders, performers and changemakers, while most others plateau?
The next wave of changemakers are closer to having an impact on the future of their own families—and countless others—than you might think.
Graduate studies in Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts train students to become cultural changemakers.
We are a collective of tech CEOs, activists, changemakers, and workers who believe the time to act to counter the hate and terrorism is now.
And so few years back, the Case Foundation set out to research whether there was a "secret sauce" behind the success of innovators, entrepreneurs and changemakers.
Having worked with youth communities all over the world, it becomes clearer that those who will thrive in this world of constant disruption are the changemakers.
The group, Build Tech We Trust, refers to itself as a collective of tech CEOs, activists, changemakers and workers who are committed to countering hate and terrorism.
Fast-forward six months and over 330 submissions, and a handful of unbelievable changemakers have been chosen as the winners of this year's T-Mobile Changemaker Challenge.
From legal and marketing support to a hackathon to build a new app, the Changemakers and T-Mobile are stepping up to change the world for good.
Along with Colin Kaepernick and Serena Williams, among others, he was recently chosen by Nike as one of six new "changemakers" for its Just Do It campaign.
The luncheon was titled #AfricaNow and featured a panel of African entrepreneurs to showcase the human potential of the continent through the eyes of prominent innovators and changemakers.
The Americans represent the largest ever intake for the Diana Award — and follows the successful Changemakers campaign that was specifically set up to widen the impact of the charity.
The new KPI (key performance indicator) for any business and the new standard of citizenship in any household, classroom, neighborhood or nation, is how many of us are changemakers.
They know the food and farming system better than anyone, and many of them are as eager as entrepreneurs, activists, and other changemakers to build a better food system.
I felt like reforming the Greek system could be a beneficial real-life experience for the budding changemakers at Tufts—you can't just abolish fundamental issues in the real world.
This is an opinion piece by Michael Farber, co-founder of Breakout, a community that champion's changemakers across the country through a unique series of events, original content, and funding.
The issue, called "Forces for Change," features "a cast of brilliant female changemakers who are set to re-shape society in radical and positive ways," a statement from British Vogue said.
The She Creates Change five-day Learning Lab was an inaugural gathering of a pilot program with dozens of passionate Changemakers that will be replicated a few more times in 2018.
We bring together female creators, makers, influencers, thought leaders, changemakers and extraordinarily photogenic white women to hatch plans and take names, while nourishing their inner creativity with plant-infused matcha suppositories.
The issue, called "Forces for Change," featured "a cast of brilliant female changemakers who are set to re-shape society in radical and positive ways," a statement from British Vogue said.
In addition to that fundraiser and one other, Buttigieg will be in San Francisco for "a conversation on equity, tech and community with Bay Area changemakers," according to a second event invitation.
This event on October 19 is a biannual day-long learning exchange and magazine launch for creative changemakers to investigate the methods, ethics, challenges, and joys of practicing art that advances social justice.
This year Ashoka Arab World launched a Young Changemakers scheme with the British Council and social enterprise Red Ochre to help support females aged 16-20 from rural Egypt develop social enterprise ideas.
And in its celebration, the Summit will help pass the torch to new changemakers for children – student and adult advocates who are learning to speak up for the children who need it most.
And now through our Changemakers program, we will invest important resources to unify and strengthen our communities across North America, with a focus on programs that will impact youth and the African-American community.
We came to meet with lawmakers and changemakers who believe in the dignity of all people and to discuss the ways public policies and public-private partnerships must align to end homelessness and poverty.
With documentary screenings and debates across the world, the Women SenseTour tells the story of female changemakers in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Iran and Indonesia through five one-hour films, said French-Moroccan filmmaker and activist Zouak.
Changemakers are people who can see the patterns around them, identify the problems in any situation, figure out ways to solve the problem, organize fluid teams, lead collective action and then continually adapt as situations change.
" Each stop will also feature energetic guest speakers, while the marquee event will be Winfrey sitting down "with some of the most influential trailblazers and changemakers who have inspired millions through their unique and powerful wellness stories.
The Anchorage Museum invites creative practitioners, changemakers, and those interested in positive change and climate change to gather at the Critical Futures Creative Conference to share, imagine, envision, invent, and create possible futures on April 13-17, 2020.
Right now, we at Ashoka's Youth Venture we are developing exciting partnerships where we are going to refine and scale our #mewesyria program with refugees so we have more young Syrian changemakers who are able to replicate our program within refugee communities.
In the slides ahead, we're taking a closer look at the changemakers within the beauty biz — many of whom are rooted in countries like Mexico, Argentina, and Cuba, among others — who have shaped the way we do (and think about) hair and makeup.
In Save the Children's 100th year of changing children's lives, the 2019 Advocacy Summit will also recognize and celebrate changemakers for children – individuals who have raised their voices and used their influence to drive change for the world's most marginalized and disadvantaged children.
We&aposre so proud to welcome two global changemakers in Secretary Clinton and Laurene Powell Jobs for an unprecedented exchange of ideas, and have no doubt this conversation will prove enlightening and inspiring for people in attendance and watching via live stream around the world.
Since their inception, these programs have supported some of America's finest and most innovative colleges and universities in training countless soon-to-be military personnel, diplomats, intelligence experts, changemakers in the development world, regional and country experts, as well as men and women in international business.
Still, women Changemakers in India have used the platform to petition lawmakers in one of the most traditional societies on the planet to improve women's' access to fair maternity leave, to keep them safe from sexual assault on public transit and to otherwise close gender gaps.
"We are a collective of tech CEOs, activists, changemakers, and workers who believe the time to act to counter the hate and terrorism is now," stated the letter, which was signed by over 20 notable figures in the tech industry, including Ellen Pao, ReadySet CEO Y-Vonne Hutchinson, and Code2040 CEO Karla Monterroso.
For now, the cultural mainstays that afford young people of color the privilege of community are doing their best to serve good food and good conversation: Bini's Kitchen provides Nepalese momos at street food fairs for forlorn Desi-yuppies; Reem Assil of Reem's California offers an activist space for Palestinian changemakers fond of za'atar mana'eesh; El Huarache Loco sells Mexican street food reminiscent of Chef Veronica Salazar's hometown of Mexico City; and Preeti Mistry has long been known for creating inclusive spaces, like her now-closed Juhu Beach Club and Navi Kitchen, and fighting for her own existence as a queer woman of color in the food industry.
She is regarded as one of the prominent young African women activists and changemakers.
Arit Okpo is a Nigerian journalist and television host. Okpo is the host CNN International's African Voices Changemakers and former presenter/producer at EbonyLife TV.
Bonita Sharma is a Nepali health and nutrition activist. She runs Social Changemakers and Innovators (SOCHAI) and in 2019 was listed as one of the BBC's 100 Women.
She is country coordinator for UDAAN Foundation and Global Changemakers 2017 from Zurich Switzerland. She represented Nepal at Miss Earth 2018 where she placed in the Top 18.
Global Peace Education works with educators and changemakers around the world, at the grassroots, national, and global levels."Transform Education." Global Peace Education. Global Peace Foundation, n.d. Web.
She has received national media exposure for her books (including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, CNN, and the O'Reilly Factor). She is founder and director of Changemakers Publishing, Screenworks, Songworks, and Creative Communications & Research. She hosted a weekly radio talk show series, Changemakers, featuring interviews on various topics, which aired from 1991 to 1993 to 1 million listeners in over 70 countries. She has taught classes at several colleges, including Woodbury University, Notre Dame de Namur University, and the Investigative Career Program in San Francisco.
Milton Keynes Citizens began in 2010. The others had a brief and glorious start lasting roughly 3 years when COF was unable to finance them any longer. Manchester Changemakers was formed in 2007 and is independent of Citizens UK.
In 2009, Alanda was appointed to represent Indonesia in British Council's Global Changemakers Guildford Forum 2009Gibbons, Z. "Alanda Kariza Wakili Indonesia di GCGF", "ANTARA", January 20, 2009, accessed October 10, 2010. Following her initial involvement in the Global Changemakers, which is an international forum of young activists, she also represented Indonesia in the Global Changemakers at the G-20 London Summit where she got the chance to address young people's unprecedented solutions for the Financial crisis of 2007-2010 to former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the President of Mexico Felipe Calderón, the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as well as other prominent figures such as Cherie Blair, David Miliband, and Hassan Wirajuda."A young Indonesian Global Changemaker goes to the London Summit", "British Embassy Jakarta", accessed November 9, 2010 Alanda has also presented her views on youth issues in front of the Pontifical Council for Culture, International Labour Organization, and World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.
The extended curriculum named ChangeMakers Program (CM), combines principles and skills from, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E;), Art, Design, Media & Technology (ADMT), Mathematics, and Science. This program is taught by solving real world issues within and across the disciplines.
Paul Business Journal named her one of the Twin Cities' Women Changemakers. In 1995, Eftekhari was named Small Business Person of the Year. Amongst her other awards are The Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Award, the Woman of Distinction Award, and the 2011 International Immigrant Achievement Citizen Award.
The skatepark is 4,843 square feed and was opened in April 2015. A short film was made about the park, called The Barefoot Skateboarders. The non-profit organization that Reinhard created to run the skatepark is also called Janwaar Castle. In March 2017, she founded the Rural Changemakers of Janwaar.
Nyker was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2012. She was included in the "Fifty Changemakers Advancing Gender Equality in South Africa" list, on the occasion of the first 50/50 Day in 2017. In 2019 she received the Outstanding Contribution Award in Power at the African Power, Energy and Water Awards.
PEP also ranked as a finalist in contests for the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation and the Ashoka Changemakers award. In 2009, Hoke was banned from Texas prisons after she admitted to having sexual relationships with PEP participants after their release from prison. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice deemed those relationships inappropriate.
Ashoka (branded Ashoka: Innovators of the Public) is an international organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating individual social entrepreneurs into the Ashoka organization. Their stated mission is "to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's citizens to think and act as changemakers".
She was named as an African woman changemaker by ARISE Magazine and as one of Applause Africa's "40 African Changemakers under 40".Jaimee A. Swift, "Fight the Power: 10 Black Women Activists in the Diaspora You Need to Know", The Culture, August 2015. She joined the African Women's Development Fund as director of programmes in October 2015.
Alanda became the youngest among Media Indonesia's 40 Most Influential People in 2010. On early 2010, Kariza received the ASHOKA Young Changemakers Awards 2010: Innovation in Clean Water and Sanitation due to her voluntary work through The Cure For Tomorrow.Ronny, A. "Bisnis Lingkungan The Cure For Tomorrow", "Green Radio FM", April 7, 2010, accessed November 23, 2010.
The Queen's Commonwealth Trust (QCT) is a charity registered in England & Wales. QCT is a growing network of young changemakers across the Commonwealth. It champions, funds and connects young leaders who are working hard to change the world. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is the President of the Queens Commonwealth Trust and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex is the Vice President.
Grimes, William (September 14, 2008). Ron Rivera, Potter Devoted to Clean Water, Dies at 60. New York TimesRon Rivera profile via Changemakers] Rivera worked with the Peace Corps in Panama and Ecuador, and with Catholic Relief Services in Bolivia. He founded the local consultancy office for the Inter American Foundation in Ecuador where he worked until 1988, when he moved to Nicaragua.
Bonita Sharma founded Social Changemakers and Innovators (SOCHAI) in 2017. It is a non-profit organization which aims to eradicate malnutrition and to encourage good health, particularly for women and children. In order to reduce child deaths from malnutrition, she introduced a bracelet called Nutribeads (Poshan Maala) which helps mothers to plan meals for their children. In 2016, Nutribeads won the Asia Pacific Youth Innovation Challenge.
She was also one of the nominated changemakers for the United State of Women 2016. She is a three-time story award winner with World Pulse In September 2016, Shruti was one of the women shortlisted for the Rising Stars Award 2016 by We are the City India, which she went onto win. In October 2016, she was recognized as one of the "52 Feminists" by 52Feminists.com.
In 2010 Baysay won the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life. She received the prize for founding the ‘Ozyegin Foundation Rural Livelihoods program’, which sought to empower women in the Diyarbakir region. In 2012, Baysal also received a 'Turkey's Changemakers' award for her work on rural development. Baysal is a founder of the Diyarbakır Institute for Political and Social Research (DISA).
Alanda graduated from Binus University with a bachelor's degree in economics, majoring in international business. She received the Grand Scholarship for three years and Academic Merit Scholarship from the institution. She is currently completing her master's degree in behavioural economics at the University of Warwick, England, with the Chevening Scholarship. She is also an alumnus of Global Changemakers, One Young World, and a part of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers.
Coaches introduce games into the playground that are inclusive to everybody while teaching teamwork, conflict mediation, leadership skills and social skills. The Playworks playbook of games includes over 250 games, including 37 variations of tag. Vialet was elected into the Ashoka fellowship in 2004 for her social entrepreneurial work with Playworks. In 2007, Ashoka Changemakers honored Playworks as a winner of its “Sports for a Better World” competition.
In the long term, the initiative aims at shifting mindsets and pivot people naturally towards equality, peace and non-violence. The storytelling wing curates stories of survivors, change-makers and peace-workers around the world so that these stories inspire action, empathy and awareness of the world. The foundation has told stories of several activists, changemakers and survivors, including Maya Azucena, Zak Ebrahim, Kamla Bhasin, Tabish Khair and Vaishnavi Sundar among others.
Originally an arts and culture magazine, Shift evolved to focus particularly on technology and Internet culture. Solomon left the magazine in 1999 to promote his first novel, Crossing the Distance. Solomon has also worked as a broadcaster, hosting the series The Changemakers, FutureWorld and Hot Type for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2004, Solomon worked as co-editor, with Heintzman, on Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy is Changing Everything.
Action on Poverty empowers local changemakers to break the cycle of entrenched poverty in some of the poorest communities in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. AOP claims to connect local organisations with the resources and training they need to drive long-lasting change. AOP targets communities with a vision for change, and help them make the largest impact possible, e.g. through teaching an Ethiopian family to grow food and sending Cambodian girls to school.
Picture was taken during her participation in the screening of a documentary about social changemakers across the globe at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium in the year 2017 The Tiffy template is a unique innovation for the blind. It is the brainchild of Tiffany Brar and the invention of Paul D'souza an illustrious inventor. It was named 'The Tiffy Template', after Tiffany Brar who triggered the concept. It is a small template which identifies Indian currency notes.
The organisation aims to provide holistic, quality education to India's most underprivileged children, mostly from the lower caste or the DalitsShanti Bhavan Children's Project - Our Mission to allow them to succeed in the modern global workplace. By breaking the cycle of poverty for these children, while modeling civic engagement and charitable giving, Shanti Bhavan aims to create a generation of changemakers and leaders in India who will go on to uplift their communities out of poverty.
In April 2016, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority banned a Gucci online video ad because it starred an "unhealthily thin" model.Mark Sweney, Gucci ad banned over 'unhealthily thin' model, Theguardian.com, 6 April 2016 In February 2019, Gucci removed a black balaclava sweater with a rollup collar and a cut-out red-lipped mouth from its shelves after it had been compared to a blackface costume.Whitney Bauck, Gucci apologizes for controversial 'blackface' sweater, Fashionista.com, 7 February 2019 Alessandro Michele responded that his inspiration came from the flamboyant Leigh Bowery but apologized for the way it had been interpreted.Sarah Young, Gucci’s blackface scandal: Creative director breaks silence over controversial jumper, Independent.co.uk, 13 February 2019 To address this issue, Gucci launched the 'Gucci North America Changemakers Scholarship' program dedicated to foster diversity within the fashion industry with a $5-million annual fund to support non-profits and community-based programs involved with "the African-American community and communities of color at-large".Sandra Song, Gucci Launches Changemakers Program to Further Diversity, Papermag.
In 1996 she began a project to write biographies of 2,200 second-wave feminists and record the important events from that period, which was published in the book Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975. She was assisted by Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) members. Her book has been the subject of discussion or conferences at VFA and NOW events. In an interview about the book Barbara Love said: For living "changemakers", information was gathered via questionnaires and other sources of information.
Since 2007, Fabian has been Senior Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Director at UNICEF. He co-founded UNICEF's Office of Innovation, which focuses on connecting those with good ideas to those with the means to take them to scale. Since 2015, UNICEF convenes these networks of changemakers primarily through the Unit’s Innovation Fund and its Global Innovation Centre, which Fabian helped launch in 2015. The Global Innovation Centre, based in Nairobi, helps take successful ideas to scale and cultivates South-South innovation.
Yasmine Arrington was born and grew up in Washington, DC. From the time of her infancy until she was a teenager Arrington’s father was often in prison. Arrington's mother died in her freshman year of high school. She attended Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Northwest D.C., where she was in a program called LearnServe International, a DC non-profit that equips youth to be social changemakers. She studied Strategic Communications and History at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina.
She was also one of the nominated changemakers for the United State of Women 2016. She is a two-time story award winner with World Pulse, and her work has been picked up and published by Time Magazine. Kirthi has been acknowledged by India Today as one of the "Game changers" in the city of Chennai, "who are transforming the city with inspiring thought and hard work." She was the youngest speaker to address a gathering at FICCI FLO, Chennai.
Slapdee participated in the 2017 Coke Studio Africa television series. As of 2017, Slapdee was the most searched Zambian musician on Google. He is the regional brand ambassador for Kung Fu Energy drink, Africa Bet, the Frutiola drink, and the Itel mobile phone. In 2019 He featured on the CNN African Voices CHANGEMAKERS as The multi-award winning Zambian hip-hop artist who helps support local kids in Zambia through his record label and raising donations for local orphanages and children's hospitals.
The Commonwealth is a global family of fifty-four countries, home to 2.4 billion people, of which 60% are under the age of 30. With digital and mobile technologies, the Commonwealth is more connected than ever before through its young people, who are stepping up to take action and tackle the problems they see around them. But only 0.07% of the international development budget currently goes to support their work. The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust is a growing network of young changemakers across the Commonwealth.
There is an increasing number of social entrepreneurs who try to address development issues through individual, financially sustainable and more home-grown initiatives. With the first Social Entrepreneurship Award 2011 (and again in 2012) there is a small but steady movement and ecosystem building around those changemakers. One organization - Hidden Journeys Nepal - is trying to promote those social entrepreneurs and at them same time help others to learn from them through field visits and networking events that help participants to be motivated and inspired.
Participants have access to training, mentoring, and resources like our Toolbox and AskNature. Finalists are invited to join the Biomimicry Launchpad to get support to bring their design to market. The Biomimicry Launchpad is the world's only accelerator program that supports early-stage entrepreneurs working to bring nature-inspired innovations to market. The Launchpad provides entrepreneurs and changemakers with the resources they need to launch and grow successful biomimicry businesses, accelerates the development and commercialization of biomimicry innovations, and helps create the next generation of sustainability entrepreneurs.
On 26 May 2018, she was awarded the Golden alumni award in the Professional Achievement category at the first edition of the British Council Golden Alumni awards. Later in the year she joined the BBC 100 Women list. On 27 March 2019, de Vos was celebrated as one 12 Women Changemakers by the Sri Lanka parliament. In 2020, De Vos was selected as a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize, "$1 million (US) award presented annually to an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to their profession" by the Varkey Foundation.
Oswald Labs won an award at Startup India Rocks in Bengaluru and is a part of IBM's Global Entrepreneur Program. They are also incubated in the London and Berlin-based EyeFocus Accelerator, a startup accelerator program for companies developing for living with visual impairment. In November 2016, Oswald Labs announced that they switched to wind-powered servers for their online services and content delivery network. On 8 April 2017, Oswald Labs qualified to the finals of The Economic Times's Catapoolt Changemakers Challenge after winning the first round in Delhi.
Sunni Brown is an American author in Austin, Texas known for her marketing of doodling. She is the founder Sunni Brown Ink, a visual thinking consultancy. She is a co-author of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers a book that outlines visual thinking techniques for business. She is also the instigator of The Doodle Revolution and author of a book called The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently. Sunni and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and Most Creative People on Twitter 2011.
Wennovation Hub leverages several models in its multi-center structure including the Kick Accelerator model and the Village Capital model. Wennovation Hub runs several business plan competitions, hackathons and also supports start-ups with direct investments. It was recognized by Tech Point as one of 5 accelerators in Nigeria, start-ups can take their big ideas to in 2015.Wennovation Hub was awarded the 2015 Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Global Changemakers Award by the Ashoka Foundation.. The founders of Wennovation Hub are Wole Odetayo, Michael Oluwagbemi, Idris Bello and Dami Agboola.
Women Creating Change (formerly Women’s City Club) was founded in 1915 as a nonprofit, non-partisan activist organization dedicated to advancing the rights of women to shape the future of New York City. Today, Women Creating Change is an inclusive community that partners with organizations and underserved women to develop and strengthen the skills and resources needed to effectively identify the issues that matter to them most and advocate for themselves and New York’s diverse communities. Its vision is that all women have the power to be changemakers to create a more equitable New York City.
He arrived in New Zealand in 2008, through New Zealand's refugee quota. Omer says that his time in New Zealand began with cleaning and scrubbing floors; this period included working as a cleaner at Victoria University of Wellington where he would study and earn a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 2016. Omer described working until 4am cleaning the university, then attending a lecture at 10am in a room that he had cleaned the night before. Omer has worked as a union organiser for E tū, and as a community advocate, including as chairperson of ChangeMakers Resettlement Forum.
SixDegrees.org is a charity led by actor, musician, and philanthropist Kevin Bacon. Launched on January 18, 2007, the organization builds on the popularity of the "small world phenomenon" by enabling people to become "celebrities for their own causes" by donating to or raising money for any charity in the United States. In March, 2014, the organization celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game by announcing plans to connect local changemakers with recognized celebrities through "drop-ins" and "shout-outs".How Kevin Bacon Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon, Jarett Wieselman, BuzzFeed.
In 2015, she coached a team of young girls to develop a mobile app to solve a problem in their community. The group, Team Charis, represented Africa at the Technovation World Pitch in San Francisco where they emerged global winners. Grace has since become a Technovation Regional Ambassador to get more girls into technology. Prior to her accession, she was one of 60 young people from nearly 2000 applicants to attend the British Council's 2012 Global Changemakers event, and has spoken at several national and international conferences including the World Economic Forum, UNESCO Youth Forum, and OpenCon.
A number of discrete initiatives currently operate within Tearfund in the UK. These include: Restored: An international Christian Alliance working to end violence against women, with a focus on transforming relationships. Toilet Twinning: Funds the building of latrines and sanitation projects around the world by getting people to twin their toilets in the UK with an overseas latrine. Inspired Individuals: The Tearfund-sponsored programme identifies, nurtures and links up Christian entrepreneurs who are radical changemakers in their communities. Tearfund Learn: An arm of Tearfund that produces a wide range of educational resources for people involved in development work.
The project is entirely student run and advances ASU's institutional commitments to social embeddedness and entrepreneurship. The space allows students to meet, work and join new networks and collaborative enterprises while taking advantage of ASU's many resources and opportunities for engagement. Changemaker Central has signature programs, including Changemaker Challenge, that support students in their journey to become changemakers by creating communities of support around new solutions/ideas and increasing access to early stage seed funding. The Changemaker Challenge seeks undergraduate and graduate students from across the university who are dedicated to making a difference in our local and global communities through innovation.
In 1999, five organisations, British Youth Council, Changemakers, the Community Foundation Network, the National Youth Agency and The Prince's Trust, who becameYB UK's consortium partners, set up seven pilot YouthBanks,YouthBank UK A brief history (flash) - select About Us then YouthBank- A brief history Youthbank.org.uk. URL Accessed July 25, 2006. in Bristol, Bradford, Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and Wales. In September 2001, YB UK was successful in securing a million pound, grant from the Community Fund, to develop a Central Development Unit to expand the pilot YB UK projects.
In 2015, Aziz founded The Aziz Foundation with the aim to help the educational pursuits of the most underprivileged and disadvantaged communities across Britain. Currently, the Foundation is engaged in narrowing the postgraduate attainment gap by encouraging British Muslims to pursue higher education through its Masters scholarship programme. Through continued development and education, the programme equips its scholars with the skills and social capital they require to achieve their full potential and inspire positive change within their communities. To date, the Aziz Foundation has funded over 350 British Muslim changemakers, with 200 of these awards being allocated in the 2020-21 academic year.
The outer studio at Charleston hosts a permanent display of Bell and Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service, and there is also a shop selling Bloomsbury-inspired art, homeware fabrics, fashion, books and stationery. Charleston hosts a number of special events throughout the year, most notably the Charleston Festival, which each May invites artists, writers, thinkers and changemakers to discuss the best in art, literature, ideas and politics, past and present, just as the Bloomsbury group did around the Charleston dining table. Charleston Festival. The house is located in the village of Firle, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.
Bell appeared in Columbia Journalism Review 2014 list of "16 women whose digital startups deserve Vox- level plaudits". In 2015, she was included in Marie Claire "New Guard" list of the "most connected women in America", and was named one of the "most powerful women in Washington" by the Washingtonian. Bell appeared in Folio 2016 "Director-Level Doers" list, recognizing the 100 "most forward-thinking and innovative leaders in magazine media". In 2017, she was included in Digiday 2017 "changemakers" list of fifty people "making media and marketing more modern", as well as the Washingtonian "40 Under 40" list.
Patten is a strong advocate for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). She is an experienced communicator and has appeared on several national television shows, including Virgin Media One Ireland AM and numerous radio programs, including Today FM. She regularly gives keynote speeches and works with Irish companies to promote STEM initiatives. Patten was among Limerick's Top 40 under 40 featured in Image (magazine) as part of the Changemakers series in 2018. Patten created Planet Zebunar, a STEM product for children that is inclusive, non-gender specific and offers an immersive experience through the combination of offline and online technologies, namely augmented reality .
The Group of 20 and Ashoka's Changemakers, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, have launched an online competition to find the best models worldwide for public- private partnerships that catalyze finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The G-20 SME Finance Challenge, the first ever competition launched by the G-20, is a unique financial inclusion effort aimed at giving small entrepreneurs a chance to grow their businesses. GBF was named one of 14 winners out of over 350 submitted proposals. The winners receive funding and GBF's executive director, Harold Rosen, accepted an invitation to the November 2010 G-20 Summit in South Korea.
King is also a member of the board of trustees of the Acid Survivors Trust International. In 2010, she also met with Princess Anne (Anne, Princess Royal) in the United Kingdom to discuss her non-profit work. King has given presentations internationally on various research topics and has publications on the topics of HIV/AIDS, international health policy, national drug policy, medical ethics, health legislation, organ transplantation, and breast cancer.e.g., WSSU She has led the Ariel Foundation in the creation and hosting of cutting edge programs for young person development, such as AFI Changemakers-UN, and AFI Youth Summit, at the UN in Geneva.
Board Member, Management Committee, Changemakers Australia, 2007-2012. Chair, Expert Advisory Group, Project PRIMeD: Police Responses to the Interface with Mental Disorder, 2008-2011. Director, Alfred Health, Melbourne, since 2010. Member, Advisory Committee, Senior's Rights Victoria, 2008-2012. Victorian Government includes: Deputy Chair, Child Protection Practice Standards and Compliance Committee, Department of Human Services, Victoria, 2010-2013. Public Advocate, Victorian Office of the Public Advocate, 2000-2007. President, Mental Health Review Board, Victoria, 1998-2000. Inaugural Chair, WorkCare Appeals Board of Victoria, 1990-1993. Inaugural Director, Legal Aid Commission of Victoria, 1981-1990. Federal Government includes: National Convenor, Commonwealth Social Security Appeal Tribunal, 1994-1997.
World of Children Award Website, July 28, 2010 In 1996, Harry conceptualized the World of Children Award program when he was recovering from cancer surgery at age 55. This is when he decided to create a Nobel Prize© for Children Awards program to support social changemakers helping children in need around the world. Harry’s philanthropic honors include the Procter & Gamble Alumni Humanitarian Award in 2007, the Reclaiming Youth International Child Advocacy Award in 2006 and the Starr Commonwealth Child Advocacy Award in 1999. Huffington Post, Accessed July 28, 2010 He is also featured in Kenneth Cole’s 2009 book, Awearness: Inspiring Stories on How to Make a Difference.
Other honors and recognition include: "Roddenberry Prize", "Cathay Pacific ChangeMakers 2020", "Sustainable Food Influencer" by WWF, "Company of the Year 2019" by PETA Asia, "Ten Outstanding Young Persons Hong Kong" and "Most Innovative Companies" by Fast Company. Yeung is engaged in numerous local and international speaking events to raise awareness and address social issues by promoting the benefits of plant-based diets, including talks at the Tesla headquarters, UCLA, Columbia University, UBS and TED Talk. Yeung has appeared on international media outlets including BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC,, CNN, Nikkei Asian Review and Reuters. Yeung is a graduate of Columbia University, an Ashoka Fellow and the author of a number of best- selling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness.
In the same year, Lovett also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Dallas, its highest honor for graduates. UTeach Dallas, a university program, partnered with Lovett which resulted in the 2010 TI gift-in-kind of training, and classroom technology including calculators and projectors. Lovett was also a keynote speaker at the 2013 Susan M. Arseven '75 Conference for Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) held by the university. Lovett was named one of Dallas-Fort Worth’s “Top 25 Changemakers” by the Dallas Business Journal in 2009, and in 2012 Lovett was recognized as one of the "Top 100 Women in STEM" by STEMconnector, a Washington D.C. based nonprofit.
Dr. Linda Marc is a Haitian-American who is published in the areas of HIV/AIDS and minority health issues. In 2014 she was honored and placed on the '1804 List of Changemakers and One's to Watch' by the Haitian Round Table, an organization committed to civic engagement and philanthropic endeavors benefiting Haiti, Haitian organizations and causes. Her research has helped to dispel the myth about Haitians with AIDS, which challenged previous notions that Haitian immigrants have a higher prevalence of HIV/AIDS than all other ethnic groups. Marc is the former Chair of the Public Health Committee for the Association of Haitian-American Engineers (2005–2007), and was honored in 2005 with an award from the Haitian-Canadian Association of Engineers and Scientists (AIHC) in Canada.
The 2nd Forum opened with a keynote by the High Representative of the UN Alliance of Civilizations H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al Nasser, highlighting the importance of leadership responsibility at an international level. The event was held under the auspices of the Mayor of Athens Yorgos Kaminis Discussions on matters concerning Leadership, Collaboration and Cultural Understanding were held within the framework of the Forum. In 2014 GTF hosted its Awards in Dubai, UAE on 28 November 2014 under the theme: ‘Arab Women as Changemakers-A Celebration of Achievements’. In 2015 GTF co-hosted a Forum in Athens, Greece in partnership with Carnegie Council under the theme 'Democracy & Values', creating conversations around leadership and accountability, the issue of collective liability and ethical business.
In 2020, Hojsík appeared in the chart of American political opinion magazine Politico "20 MEPs to watch in 2020" and in the series of articles "Changemakers", where he was named as one of the MEPs, who will be the main leaders of positive changes in the fight against pesticides. He was the Chief Program Officer (CPO) and Executive Board member of the international charity FOUR PAWS. In the past, he worked on global campaigns for ActionAid International and Greenpeace International to change corporate behavior and public policies, and on communication campaigns for Greenpeace national offices He studied genetics at the Faculty of Natural Science at Comenius University in Bratislava and has been an environmental and social movement activist since 1993.
The system initiated by her covers 1490 self-help groups, 75 children's groups, 220 men's groups and several girls' groups and is active in community health programs, rehabilitation programs for disabled people, legal aid programs, and livelihood support programs. Her efforts gained her a nomination to the now defunct Planning Commission of India in 2007 for a five-year term that lasted till 2012 where she was a member of the work group which focused on primary healthcare. She has written several articles on rural healthcare and development; some of them getting accepted by Changemakers, a networking platform for social entrepreneurship. Her group of volunteers have trained over 40,000 people in the management of rural development, representing government and banking institutions, non government organizations and self-help group (SHG) members.
In March 2019 chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond announced that secondary schools in England would receive funding to provide sanitary products free-of- charge to poorer young people. George and fellow campaigners welcomed the statement, and said that it should go further by expanding to primary schools (as menstruation can start as early as age seven) and enshrining the commitment in law for future governments. In response to her activism, George has been honoured on the Time Most Influential Teens of 2018 list, The Big Issue Top 100 Changemakers, and Teen Vogue 21 under 21 (after being nominated by Emma Watson for the latter). George won a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Campaign Award in 2018, which she was presented with in a ceremony in New York City.
UnLtd was formed in 2000 by seven non-profit organisations: Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Changemakers, Community Action Network (CAN), Comic Relief, The Scarman Trust, SENSCOT, and The School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE). The awards are funded by the income generated by a £100 million endowment from the Millennium Commission as a permanent source of grants for individuals throughout the United Kingdom to develop their skills and talents, and to contribute to the community; the income from the endowment is held by the Millennium Awards, of which UnLtd is the sole Trustee. John Rafferty was the first Chief Executive who with Sandra Jetten COO successfully negotiated the grant of £100 million from the Millennium Commission and established the network of UK wide offices and staff. From 2006-2015 UnLtd was headed by Cliff Prior, who went on to become Chief Executive at Big Society Capital.
Wingard appeared on Brian Sullivan's Capital Exchange program on CNBC to discuss credentials and competencies needed in the workforce. Wingard's access initiatives at Columbia University have been covered in the press, including "Columbia University partners with HBCUs to fight lack of business diversity" in The Undefeated, "Columbia and Brooks Brothers Unite To Dress Future Female Changemakers" in Swaay, a "Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative" segment on Fox 5 NY, "Showing girls the way to careers in STEM" in The Miami Herald, and "Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative Inspires Young Women to Achieve in STEM Careers" in Black Enterprise. Wingard also garnered national media attention as a student athlete when he played for Stanford's football team. Since then, he has attracted significant coverage from outlets including USA Today, Black Enterprise, and the NY Daily News for his consulting work with professional sports organizations and players.
Described as an "outstanding address", the activist, named as one of CMC's 'Changemakers' of the year, pointedly noted that there was a "global call for the children to become the leaders of today", and this ought to start with their media. On 20 September 2019, she hosted London's global climate strike, the largest climate mobilisation in UK history, with 100,000 protesters in the capital and 350,000 attending strikes across the country. In the same month, her joint design for a climate strike placard along with ILOVEYOU agency was entered for Beazley's 'Design of the Year' competition at the Design Museum, which Levy-Rapoport and her fellow activists chose not to boycott, a decision she later explained in an article for It's Nice That. In October 2019, she was selected by the London Evening Standard as one of London's most influential people of 2019 as part of their annual Progress 1000 list.
Amatya, a graduate from University of Oklahoma was also a Global Changemakers Fellow (British Council London), Founder of Helpless Women and Children Service Society Nepal (HWCSS), OK Ambassador to Women Prevention and Protection Nepal (WPPC), Ambassador of Peace to World Peace Foundation (Thailand) and country director of Youth for Youth Organization Nepal. Under her leadership, she has also collected funds for her pilot projects like “Vocational Training for Women Empowerment” and “Help the Himalayan Children of Nepal”. For her contributions for social cause in poverty alleviation and women upliftment in rural areas, she has been recognized in national and international magazines and awarded with awards like Voice of Women- Nepal, Rotary and JCI Excellence. She currently works as the President of Nepalese Student Association in OU and an ambassador to WPPC Nepal for Oklahoma State where she works towards the welfare of international students and raises awareness regarding the trafficking of women in Nepal.

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