In early May, Ashoka teamed up with Wondros, a full-service production company specializing in translating complex business and pro-social ideas into simple media messages, to bring together a handful leading social entrepreneurs [all Ashoka Fellows] to figure out the key ingredients to movement-making in the digital age. At the heart of everything: storytelling. Tim Carpenter, Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE was one of the storytellers/leading social entrepreneurs who participated.
Lennon Flowers, Community Director for Ashoka’s Start Empathy Initiative, condensed the experience for an article in Forbes Magazine entitled, “Creating Modern-Day Movements: Filmmakers And Social Entrepreneurs Share What It Takes To Spread An Idea.” Click here to read the article and discover the four lessons that came out of the discussions.
Click the names of the participants below to read their entire presentations. Don’t miss Tim’s, which is not only insightful but very amusing!
- Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and Co-director of the Caring Across Generations on building the care economy.
- Eric Dawson, Co-Founder and President of Peace First, on unleashing young people’s moral imagination.
- Andrew Mangino, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Future Project, on building the next generation of dreamers.
- Tim Carpenter, Founder and Executive Director of EngAGE and host and producer of Experience Talks, on changing how we look at aging.
