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Ushering in Ashoka’s 30th year, the Ashoka Future Forum engaged the country’s foremost social innovators to envision the future of our society and to catalyze large scale, collaborative social change, exploring how to:
- Convert social capital to financial value for growing social enterprises;
- Guarantee health for all, with entrepreneurial approaches to engaging communities and innovative business models;
- Shape talent for the next generation and the workplace of the future;
- Create playing fields for young changemakers and new social entrepreneurs;
- Inspire and focus strategies for entrepreneurial solutions in cities and communities; and
- Create a blue print to develop empathy in early education, an emerging and critical skill of the future.
At a pivotal time for the United States, the Ashoka Future Forum leveraged Ashoka’s global experience to shape our society and prepare a next generation of entrepreneurial problem-solvers.
What
The Future Forum consisted of two parts:
Knowledge-to-Strategy Roundtables
- All day April 6, 2010
- Multiple roundtables to choose from
- Tracks: focused on future trends and innovations in a range of social issues, such as news and knowledge, social innovation in cities, and youth development
- Goal: how to transform these systems for the better
Evening Celebration
- Evening of April 6, 2010
- Celebrating Ashoka’s 30th Anniversary
- Welcome to new Ashoka Fellows
- Tributes to leaders in the field of social entrepreneurship
Who
In partnership with the Hunt Alternatives Fund, Jenesis Group, Knight Foundation and Manpower, the Future Forum brought together leading social entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders from all sectors and across the country to share knowledge, collaborate, and celebrate the valuable contributions made by social entrepreneurs towards solving the nation’s most urgent social problems.
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Where
The Future Forum was held at the Knight Conference Center at the Newseum 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
When
April 6th, 2010
Knowledge Event – 8:15 am – 5:30 pm
Celebration Event – 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
*Image from http://www.newseum.org
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