Call for Entries: Online Competitions on Social Innovation with Ashoka's Changemakers

Dear Equator Net members,

You are invited to participate in the following online competitions on social innovation with Ashoka’s Changemakers:

1. The Geotourism Challenge: Celebrating Places - Changing Lives (Jan - Jun 2008)

2. Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis (Jan - May 2008)

3. Young Men at Risk: Transforming the Power of a Generation (Nov - Mar 2008)

4. Sport for a Better World (Sep - Mar 2008)

Ashoka is a global association of leading social entrepreneurs with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Ashoka’s Changemakers online collaborative competitions seek “open source” innovative, workable solutions to the world’s most entrenched social problems. Competition entries are posted transparently online and available for anyone to view and collaborate with by providing new ideas, asking insightful questions, and providing connections to new resources. The collaboration provides the competitor information to be used in refining their entry until the entry deadline, meaning the earlier you apply the more you gain.

Ashoka's Changemakers accepts entries in English or Spanish. Deadlines vary. For more information on current competitions, click here.

For questions, please contact:

Ashoka Global Headquarters
1700 North Moore Street,
Suite 2000 (20th Floor)
Arlington, VA 22209 USA
Tel: 703-527-8300
Fax: 703-527-8383

To contact the staff of Changemakers electronically, click here.

Warm regards,

Gaby