In December 2018, Ashoka Global Fellow Dr. Sami Hourani visited Net Impact to share his experiences as a serial social entrepreneur. While pursuing his medical degree from the University of Jordan in Amman, Dr. Hourani used his web development background to design an online platform that enabled...

Ashoka is a social impact firm based in Washington D.C. that supports entrepreneurs who have potentially world-changing ideas and a track record for success. In its early years, Ashoka coined the term “social entrepreneur” and it continues to help define the impact landscape today. Rather...

The 2019 Yale Philanthropy Conference (YPC) brought together hundreds of funders, non-profit leaders, and social entrepreneurs to consider the pressing challenges facing today’s leaders in the social sector. The 15th annual, sold-out event was organized under the theme “Values in Action”...

Veronica Colondam, a champion of social entrepreneurship in Indonesia and around the world, spoke at Social Impact Lab about how her organization, YCAB, has evolved from a nonprofit to a social enterprise, and how she is shaping the policy environment in Indonesia for others to learn from her...