What kinds of experiences shape young people to be changemakers, people with the skills and commitment to “dare themselves to act” for positive social change? At Ashoka, we seek to spark a global movement where Everyone is a Changemaker. To achieve this vision, we partner with the most cutting-edge leaders with high-level global impact potential. The Fulbright program produces high caliber leaders by fostering cross-cultural understanding and action. We believe that to succeed in today’s world as a changemaker, everyone needs to learn these essential skills. In the current presentation you will hear from three Fulbright Alumni who all form part of Ashoka’s network of innovators. Through their own stories of social change, they shed light on how their Fulbright grants directly contributed to their dedication to creating experiences that unleash the power of young people to make a difference and succeed in our changing world.

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Networked Changemaking
Kara Andrade, Ashoka Fellow
David Nahmias, Fellow Security & Latin America Diamond
Jenni Schneiderman, Ashoka Fellow

2. David Nahmias
Ashoka Innovators for the Public
dnahmias@ashoka.org
@david_nahmias

3. Six Words
Condense your
observations and
experiences with change
into one sentence with
just Six Words
!
Based on Michelle Norris Race Card Project
http://theracecardproject.com/about-the-race-card-
project/

4. What is changemaking?

6. Connecting “the dots” between
Fulbright and Ashoka

9. Guiding Principles
Each of our stories reflects the
following:
• Not focusing on problems, but
presenting solutions
• Focusing on the change, not the
networks
• Networked approaches for
maximum social impact and
movement-building
Image Credit: Siong Chin

10. Jenni Schneiderman
Ashoka Fellow
jenni.schneiderman@gmail.com

11. Human-Centered Approaches

12. Changemaker
schools
To cultivate structures of empathy
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Chicago, IL, USA, 2010-Present

14. Chicago, IL, USA, 2010-Present

15. Chicago, IL, USA, 2010-Present

17. Kara Andrade
Ashoka Fellow, Co-Founder HablaCentro NFP
kara.andrade@gmail.com
@newmaya

18. This is a story
about one
person’s
journey
It just happens to be mine.

25. Fulbright brought me back, Ashoka
helped me get “rooted”

27. “Habla” means to speak in Spanish.
Communities in Crisis

32. We Focus On
Training and strategy in Latin
America
Tools for enhancing civic
participation
Help people access information
and economic opportunities

33. How do they work?
Regional citizen information
websites in Latin America
Run by volunteers who share
information & own the websites
locally
Contributors share and discuss
information in various languages
Contributions can be anonymous
Anyone can contribute via
website, email and cellphone

34. Community-Driven Technology
ANDROID
GATEWAY
OPERATOR
GATEWAY
LAPTOP
GATEWAY
WEB SERVER
WEBSITES
MOBILE CONTRIBUTORS

37. A Fully-Informed Citizen Has
Access to accurate, reliable,
timely, relevant and significant
information
Tools to get and use that
information
Economic opportunities to live
and sustain a peaceful life

38. Networks Have
Been Around
Forever…

39. Networks & Swarm
Intelligence
Photo: National Geographic
The web didn’t invent
community.

40. How are networks structured?

41. They are relational

42. They connect differently

43. Online

44. Offline

45. With their own internal logic
Image: Heather McLeod Grant & Diana Scearce

46. Sometimes they function like “silos”

47. By Peter Block
“Community: The Structure of Belonging”
“The essential challenge is to
transform the isolation and self-
interest within our communities
into connectedness and caring for
the whole.”

48. Principles
The essential work is to build social fabric, both for its own sake and to enable
chosen accountability among citizens
Strong associational life is essential and central (“public sphere”)
Citizens who use their power to convene other citizens are what create an
alternative future
The small group is the unit of transformation
All transformation is linguistic, which means that we can think of community as
essentially a conversation
-By Peter Block

49. The question
is:
how do we
build
community
together?

50. Thank you!