Being involved with Changemakers can mean a big boost to your goals. Participation often leads to further connections and opportunities that have a significant impact on the growth and reach of organizations working toward change. We keep you updated here, and congratulate the whole Changemakers community for supporting these projects.
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|  | “The Changemakers open source competition model let us shorten our three-to four-year Call for Proposals process for identifying investment-grade opportunities to three or four months, while delivering an equivalent number of quality projects.” Nancy Barrand |
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| | "The enthusiasm and the participation of the staff, families and friends has been one of the best things that Ashoka’s Changemakers has done. Moving from a small group of judges to democratizing the evaluation process has been a great experience." Dr. Mwalimu Musheshe |
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| | ”At my magazine, we spend enormous time and effort unearthing innovative approaches to providing consumers great travel programs, while preserving the power of the places themselves. I was stunned by the quality of the applications. They showcased great innovation that can be exported to other countries, terrific successes against long odds, and a far-reaching global distribution of projects.” Keith Bellows |
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| | “We had one moment where we said, what if someone steals our idea? …But we knew we were in the best position to do it the way we were doing it and if someone wanted to do something somewhat similar, well, that would just benefit more people.” Dr. Terry Lowe |
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| | “It gives innovators a line of site where the ‘white spaces’ may be so that you can start working while the competition is going on… And it incentivizes collaboration.” Judith Rodin |
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| | “The opportunity to collaborate and network with others is key. All other entrants too are Champions and we now have the new consciousness to go out there and create more Champions of Quality Education in Africa,” Raphael Oko |
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| | “Changemakers’ open-source competition model makes possible for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean to access a vast network of sources of knowledge; and for us as a donor, it makes possible to select better projects and partners in a proactive and intelligent way, scaling up innovations and leveraging our funding” Santiago Soler |
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| | "Being recognized among the most innovative solutions for rural communities is a pretty big achievement for us, it has maximized our motivation to keep replicating our work in knowledge and social change." Tarcio Handel da Silva |
