REPORT ON ANY FAMOUS
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
BILL DRAYTON
10/13/2020
PRESENTED BY:
 Sajid Raza ( 10186 )
 Noosha Fatima Zuberi ( 10775 )
 Nayab Fatima ( 10183 )
 Zulminan Ali ( 10002 )
 Soban Abbasi ( 10227 )
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CONTENT
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INTRODUCTION-------------------------------------------2
EARLY LIFE-------------------------------------------------3
CAREER------------------------------------------------------4
EXPERTISE--------------------------------------------------5
AWARDS-----------------------------------------------------6
ASHOKA FOUNDATION---------------------------------7-13
1. Brief History Of Ashoka------------------------------------------7-9
2. Ashoka Team-------------------------------------------------------9-10
3. Ashoka’s Mission--------------------------------------------------10-11
4. Ashoka’s Aim-------------------------------------------------------11
5. Ashoka’s Objectives-----------------------------------------------11
6. Creating The Everyone A Changemaker World---------------11-12
7. Ashoka Promotes Group Social Entrepreneurship------------12
8. Ashoka Priorities--------------------------------------------------12-13
9. Ashoka’s Key Operations----------------------------------------13-14
10.Ashoka’s Impact---------------------------------------------------15
 CONCLUSION------------------------------------------------16
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INTRODUCTION
William Drayton (born 1943 in New York City) is a social entrepreneur. Drayton was
named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders in 2005.
He is responsible for the rise of the phrase "social entrepreneur",[citation needed]
a concept first found in print in 1972.
Drayton is the founder and current chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an
organization dedicated to finding and fostering social entrepreneurs worldwide.
Drayton also chairs two other organizations, namely Youth Venture and Get
America Working!
Drayton's philosophy of social entrepreneurs is individuals with innovative solution
to society's most pressing social problems. To quote Drayton, "Social
entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not
rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry."
He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
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EARLY LIFE
Drayton's mother immigrated to the United States from Australia. His father was
an American who became an explorer. Public service and strong values run
through the history of both parents' families, including several of the earliest antislavery abolitionist and women's leaders in the U.S. Drayton was born in 1943 in
New York City.
Drayton attended high school at Phillips Academy, where he established the Asia
Society, which soon became the school's most popular student organization. He
attended Harvard where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965, where he
created the Ashoka Table, bringing in prominent government, union, and church
leaders for off-the-record dinners at which students could ask "how things really
worked". Drayton entered Balliol College, Oxford and received a Master of Arts
degree in 1967. He attended Yale Law School where he received his Juris Doctor in
1970. At Yale Law School, Drayton founded Yale Legislative Services, which, at its
peak, involved a third of the law school's student body.
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CAREER
Drayton became a manager and management consultant,
working for McKinsey & Company as a consultant for almost
ten years.
During the administration of President Jimmy Carter (1977–
1981), Drayton was an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency where he launched emissions trading, among other reforms.
Drayton has served as a visiting Professor at Harvard University and Stanford
University.
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EXPERTISE
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arresting deforestation
clean energy
clean water
early childhood to primary education
economic opportunity
education
environmental sustainability
financial services
health
health delivery
human rights
international justice
livelihoods
living conditions
ocean ecosystems
peace and human rights
post-secondary education
responsible supply chains
sanitation
secondary education
smallholder productivity
standards
sustainable markets
water management
women's and girls' education
youth job skills
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AWARDS
Drayton has received many awards and acknowledgments for his achievements.
He was elected one of the early MacArthur Fellows for his work, including the
founding of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
The American Society of Public Administration and the National Academy of Public
Administration jointly awarded him their National Public Service Award and he has
also been named a Preiskel-Silverman Fellow for Yale Law School and is a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On May 25, 2009, Drayton was awarded an honorary degree, Doctorate of
Humane Letters, by Yale University at commencement.
David Gergen has called Drayton the "godfather of social entrepreneurship." And
in 2008, Drayton was named a "visionary" as one of Utne Reader magazine's "50
Visionaries Who Are Changing the World".
In 2011, Drayton won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Awards for
international cooperation for his work promoting entrepreneurs. The prize
foundation described him as a "driving force behind the figure of social
entrepreneurs, men and women who undertake innovative initiatives for the
common good."
Within the next two weeks, Drayton also accepted the John W. Gardner Leadership
award, "established in 1985 to honor outstanding Americans who exemplify the
leadership and the ideals of John W. Gardner", and the World Entrepreneurship
Forum's Social Entrepreneur Award.
In 2012, Drayton was named an inaugural recipient of Middlebury College's Center
for Social Entrepreneurship Vision Award, in recognition of the impact of his
contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship.
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ASHOKA FOUNDATION
Ashoka (branded Ashoka: Innovators of the Public) is an international organization
that promotes social entrepreneurship by affiliating individual social entrepreneurs
into the Ashoka organization.
BRIEF HISTORY OF ASHOKA:
Bill Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980 based on the idea that the most powerful
force for good in the world is a social entrepreneur: a person driven by an
innovative idea that can help correct an entrenched global problem. The world’s
leading social entrepreneurs pursue system-changing solutions that permanently
alter existing patterns of activity.
Beginning in India in 1981, Ashoka started identifying and supporting the world’s
leading social entrepreneurs who have ideas for far-reaching social change. It
started by first distilling their unique qualities and pioneering a rigorous global
system for vetting and electing them to the Ashoka Fellowship. Four years later,
Bill Drayton was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (“genius” award), and began to
work full-time on building the Ashoka organization.
Ashoka officially registered the name Ashoka in 1987, inspired by the Sanskrit word
Ashoka that means the "active absence of sorrow," and by the Indian Emperor
Ashoka, one of the world's earliest great social entrepreneurs. After unifying India
in the 3rd Century B.C., Emperor Ashoka renounced violence and became one of
history's most tolerant, global-minded, and creative leaders, pioneering
innovations in economic development and social welfare.
Ashoka began expanding rapidly in 1986 with the election of Ashoka Fellows in
Brazil and then Mexico, Bangladesh, and Nepal in 1987. It continued to add
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countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe during the
1990s. By 1988, Ashoka had elected 100 Fellows in four countries, so it began to
build and knit the community together through a Fellowship Support Systems that
helped Fellows learn what each other were working on, and where they could find
each other in case they were encountering a challenge or were simply traveling.
The Ashoka Fellowship became a mutual support group that was the world’s first
professional association of leading social entrepreneurs.
In 1996, Ashoka partnered with McKinsey & Company to found the
Ashoka/McKinsey Center for Social Entrepreneurship in São Paulo, Brazil as a way
to help Ashoka learn how to work effectively with the business sector, and to help
McKinsey establish a social sector practice. In that same year, having seen the
majority of Ashoka Fellows launch their first initiatives in their teens, Ashoka
launched Youth Venture to build on the insight that the only way to significantly
increase the proportion of adults who see themselves as changemakers, and
master the necessary and complex underlying social skills, is to transform the way
all young people grow up. Youth Venture began investing in young people so that
they embark on becoming changemakers through the transformative experience
of launching and leading their own lasting venture.
Ashoka launched a print magazine in India in 1993 called Changemakers to cover
the field of social entrepreneurship. It was converted to the Changemakers.com
website in 1998, providing an online, global hub that identifies and leverages
powerful insights in order to activate networks of social innovators that
are capable of igniting sweeping change in their fields.
After selecting more than 1,000 social entrepreneurs by the late 1990s, it was
becoming clear that Ashoka had largely achieved one of its primary goals:
establishing the field of social entrepreneurship. Other organizations had formed
to support the work of promising social entrepreneurs at various stages of their
individual and organizational development. Social enterprise programs were now a
staple of business and public policy schools in the United States and other
countries, and a burgeoning cottage industry of researchers and professional
service firms—including lawyers, consultancies, academics, trade associations—
had evolved to study and advance the work of social entrepreneurs.
Having passed a tipping point that firmly established social entrepreneurship,
Ashoka formally shifted its focus to the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) vision in
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2005: Ashoka believes that because we are living in a truly historic moment where
anyone can create positive change; everyone needs to become a changemaker in
order to thrive; and everyone should be equipped with the qualities that most
define a social entrepreneur. Ashoka has unlocked this strategy by drawing on the
inspiration, depth of knowledge and expertise, accumulated experience, and
collective insights from the Fellows’ work that enables a broader flowering of
effective social change.
Ashoka drew on these insights to develop a strategy that focuses on ensuring that
every child masters the skill of empathy, all young people are practicing
changemaking skills, and organizations across all sectors adopt a fluid, open teamof-teams working style that supports changemaking. Ashoka launched the AshokaU
program in 2008 to catalyze social innovation in higher education through a global
network of change teams composed of entrepreneurial students, faculty, and
community leaders. It launched the Changemakers Schools program in 2012 to
activate a global community of leading elementary, middle, and high schools that
prioritize empathy, teamwork, leadership, problem-solving, and changemaking as
student outcomes.
In the meantime, Ashoka continues to grow, expanding its global network of
leading social entrepreneurs in North America (it launched programs in the United
States in 2000 and Canada in 2002), in the Middle East and North Africa beginning
in 2000, and in Western Europe in 2005. Today, Ashoka operates in more than
90 countries on every continent, having elected more than 3,500 Ashoka Fellows
worldwide.
Looking ahead, Ashoka is identifying emerging opportunities where society is
reaching a tipping point that will make it possible to solve critical problems through
widespread systemic change. It does this by helping entrepreneurs work with each
other, and with partners in business, government, academia, and other influential
institutions to draw on and demonstrate the power of collaborative
entrepreneurship.
ASHOKA TEAM
Ashoka is a team of people working together from 35 country offices around the
world to advance a world in which everyone is a Changemaker. Ashoka staff
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members are team players who are entrepreneurial and are driven to make
powerful ideas real.
MISSION:
Their stated mission is "to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen
sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's
citizens to think and act as changemakers".
 To take up socially relevant projects in fields related to land and water
resources
 Management, wet land management, solid waste management and energy
management etc.
 To function as a collaborating agency of WHO, UNICEF,UNEP , UNFP and
similar International organizations.
 To promote research and development in third sector.
 To promote self help groups of youth, women, ex-servicemen, older
persons, minorities,
 Physically challenged persons and marginalized sections of the society and
to promote
 Income generation programmes, thrift and savings habits.
 To establish and run old age homes, multi service centers and orphanages.
 To promote innovations and rural technologies.
A fundamental challenge facing every society is to create political, economic,
educational and social system that promote peace, human welfare and the
sustainability of the environment on which life depends. We believe that the best
way to meet this challenge is to encourage initiatives by those living and working
closest to where problems are located; to promote collaboration among the
nonprofit government and business sectors; and to ensure participation by men
and women from diverse communities and at all levels of society. In our
experience such activities help build common understanding enhance excellence
enable people to improve their lives and reinforce their commitment to society
The Ashoka Foundation is one of the leading trusts in Mumbai. Ashoka Foundation
is a NGO which is devoted to social, medical and educational development. It is
registered under Govt of Maharashtra (Regd). Ashoka Foundation has been done
lots of work for social, medical and educational development since last few years
successfully in our society. The work of Ashoka Foundation in the field of social,
medical, and educational creates brand image in the mind of people The Ashoka
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Foundation is one source of support for these activities. We work mainly by making
grants or loans that build knowledge and strengthen organizations and networks.
Since our financial resources are modest in comparison with social needs, we focus
on a limited number of problem areas and program strategies within our board
goals. We first focus on IT education so that our countries can achieve difficult
goals in a smooth ways. 21st century is known as an IT Century. Let’s start
spreading IT education among all the people. Our main is to achieve social goals.
And to achieve that goal we need source of fund so that we can serve poor and
needy people. By starting this IT education project we all can spread IT awareness
among all people. To achieve goals in social and human welfare, success of this
project is very important so let’s come together and make a project successful.
ASHOKA’S AIM:
To encourage charitable and social service activities of every kind to help the
needy and poor sections of society without any sort of decimations. Promote
advance and encourage and aid helping, promoting, advancing and encouraging all
activities for physical and mental wellbeing and upliftment of public.
ASHOKA’S OBJECTIVES:
It is an autonomous, non-profit making organization, devoted to strengthen and
further the cause of environmental education, science and technology, and related
research in India. Promoting environmental, awareness and develop sustainable
technologies. Objectives of the organization rural development, which includes
self-employment and wage employment, effective implementation of existing
schemes, formulation and enforcement of new schemes, land reforms, area and
need based specific developments and promotion of voluntary agencies and other
nongovernmental organizations.
CREATING EVERYONE A CHANGEMAKER WORLD:
Through their network of students, schools, universities, corporations, and citizen
sector organizations, we’re building a movement towards an Everyone a
Changemaker World where every person is powerful and can take creative action
for social change in their communities.
 2,000 parents reached through our workshop on parenting changemakers,
Your Kids.
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 30 online Changemaker Challenges to encourage youth social innovation.
 150+ young changemakers selected for their social innovations through
Youth Venture.
 70 senior leaders engaged across 23 countries in our Executive in Residence
program.
 230 participants representing 33 countries participated in Changemaker
Boot camps.
 500+ higher education institutions engaged in 50+ countries, with
approximately 5,000 individuals engaged directly in Ashoka.
ASHOKA PROMOTES GROUP SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
Ashoka believes it is vital to link individuals, groups and networks of social
entrepreneurs. They are then able:
 To encourage each other.
 To learn from each other.
 To link together to create effective action.
ASHOKA PRIORITIES:
Ashoka focuses on three strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt
to a world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a leader.
SOCIAL ENTERPRENEURSHIP:
Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to
everyone to be a change maker world.
EMPATHY AND YOUNG CHANGE MAKING:
Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they
have the power to lead, to contribute to be in charge.
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ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE MAKING:
Living and working in a change maker world requires breaking through silos,
tearing down walls, and organizing in fluid, opens, and team of teams.shoka
focuses on three strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt to a
world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a lead.
ASHOKA’S KEY OPERATIONS:
Ashoka operates by building communities and amplifying its moments across the
globe. Currently Ashoka operates in more than 92 countries with a widespread
ideas and teams. It operates in the following three stages:
1. Identify and support the world's leading social entrepreneurs: Ashoka elects
Social Entrepreneurs across the globe on merit. They search for innovative
social entrepreneurs whose ideas solve deep rooted social problems. After a
rigorous application process, we invite them into the Ashoka Fellowship providing early stage financial support and a lifetime membership into an
expansive network of peers and partners - enabling them to achieve their
vision and have even greater impact. We then draw on the insights and
patterns of these 3,500+ Ashoka Fellows to understand what the future
needs and how to create new solutions for building a better world. Ashoka
provides stipend for the living expenditures of the social entrepreneurs for
the time period of 3 years and help them communicate their idea and help
others. Of Ashoka fellows with ventures that are more than five years old,
Ashoka says that more than 80 percent have had their solution implemented
by others; 59 percent have directly affected national policy, and each
Ashoka fellow is helping an average of 174,000 people.
2. Accelerate the “Everyone’s a changemaker” world: Ashoka has a network of
organizations that help them in shifting mindsets and reshaping how we
learn, work, and live together to catalyze changemaking for the good of
society. Ashoka has partnership with many schools, universities,
corporations, citizen sector organizations, media, and other influencers to
co-lead this movement with us.
3. Equip everyone to be a changemaker: Ashoka inspire and enable
changemaking in the public-at-large, and work to give all citizens the
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confidence and tools to solve problems for the good of all. Specifically, they
focus on preparing the next generation to navigate this rapidly-changing
world by ensuring all young people have the critical skills they need.
Ashoka has done partnership with many of the reputed organizations and
entrepreneurs, but all of the partnerships are having a reason behind them, a
reason to make this world a better place to live upon. These are some of the
partners of the Ashoka.
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ASHOKA’S IMPACT:
In 2018, Ashoka led one of the largest and most diverse studies of system changing
social entrepreneurs ever conducted. It found that Ashoka Fellows are having
systems-level impact — 74 percent have achieved change in public policy or
legislation, others are changing market systems, and mindsets. All are working
towards an Everyone is a Changemaker world by engaging countless others in their
efforts to realize change for the good of all. It also found that Ashoka is clearly
accelerating Fellows' ability to create their systems change impact. Overall, 84
percent of Fellows reported that Ashoka has helped increase their impact. Learn
more about the study results and Fellows' systems changing strategies in the 2018
Impact Report. Learn more about the study results and Fellows' systems changing
strategies in the 2018 Impact Report.
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CONCLUSION
Bill Drayton is known to have given a name to a growing industry of “social
entrepreneurship” subsequently fathering a movement to reform how society sees
businesses and equipping current and future change makers for a changing world.
He is one of the few living exemplars of a life led for others as a servant leader of
high ethical fiber and seeking the ultimate good for people everywhere. In the
world of non-profit organizations, non-governmental-organizations, and socialentrepreneurship, Bill needs no introduction. People know him or his organization
because of the good that he’s helped create in this world.