- New York City Boot CampJune 3, 2015
- Toronto Boot CampJune 24, 2015
- Mexico City Boot CampJuly 1, 2015
- Dakar Boot CampJuly 29, 2015
- Nairobi Boot CampAugust 5, 2015
Welcome to the Emerging Innovators website and toolkit!
One hundred young leaders, who represent the future of social change, have been invited to attend the American Express Emerging Innovators Boot Camps in five regions: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Francophone West Africa, and East Africa.
The 2015 Emerging Innovators represent a wide range of sectors and models, and were determined by a panel of expert judges on the basis of three Ashoka Changemakers criteria: innovation, social impact, and sustainability.
- Innovation: present a uniquely effective approach to addressing urgent social problems in their region.
- Social Impact: demonstrate impact, as well as the potential to grow impact on a regional or national scale.
- Sustainability: show a clear plan for reaching long-term goals and securing financial backing.
Through each boot camp, emerging innovators are challenged to advance their leadership and scale the positive social impact of their work. Each emerging innovator receives personalized training, mentoring from senior social entrepreneurs, business experts, and thought leaders, and opportunities for collaboration with the 19 other innovators in their cohort. Emerging innovators will also be featured in a three-month trilingual online campaign designed to share their insights and best practices with other social innovators seeking to take their ideas to the next level.
For the next three months, this Website will serve as an online extension of the Boot Camps, offering a toolkit of resources to support the growth and learning of emerging social innovators all over the world. Whether you're poised to pilot or scaling a start-up, this toolkit will offer ongoing opportunities for leadership development through a range of activities and insights, including articles, multimedia, and online events.
So, what can you do here?
- Announcement Bar: highlights upcoming online events, leadership advice, and featured videos.
- Resources Tab: features a Guide to Pitching and other resources tailored to the work of social innovators.
- Blog: invites leading social entrepreneurs, Boot Camp alumni, and emerging innovators to share trends in social innovation and other insights in leadership development
- Ashoka Fellow YouTube Playlist: features tactics, strategies, and lessons learned from the world's leading social entrepreneurs.
- Twitter Feed: showcases resources, thoughts, and feedback shared (by you!) with the broader #amexleads social innovation network.
- Coming soon! Podcast Interview Series that spotlights takeaways and advice from Emerging Innovators in text and audio form.
Follow our updates on Twitter through the hashtag #amexleads and on Facebook through the Ashoka Changemakers page.
United States Emerging Innovators 2015
Adarsh Alphons, Project Art
Location: New York, NY
Place of Impact: USA
Alex Blum, Rugged Communications (rural community development)
Location: Boston, MA
Place of Impact: Panama
Andrew Coy, Digital Harbor Foundation (education through technology)
Location: Baltimore, MD
Place of Impact: USA
Blair Brettschneider, GirlForward (empowerment for refugee girls)
Location: Chicago, IL
Place of Impact: USA
Chris Bradshaw, Dreaming Out Loud (inclusive food systems and job development)
Location: Washington, DC
Place of Impact: USA
Cynthia Poon, Increment (inclusive learning through play)
Location: Providence, RI
Place of Impact: USA
Daniel Yu, Reliefwatch (mobile phone technology for healthcare)
Location: Chicago, IL
Place of impact: Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Liberia, Benin
Gavin Raders, Planting Justice (food system justice)
Location: Oakland, CA
Place of Impact: USA
Jessica Meyer, BUILD Institute (small business development/entrepreneurship)
Location: Detroit, MI
Place of Impact: USA
Joanne Sprague, Friendfactor (activating allies for equality)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Place of Impact: USA
Jonny Cohen, GreenShields (anti-pollution through school bus innovation)
Location: New York, NY
Place of Impact: USA
Lauren Fine, Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (transforming youth reentry process)
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Place of Impact: USA
Lindsay Litowitz, Terranga
Location: New York, NY
Place of Impact: USA
Manyang Reath Kher, Humanity Helping Sudan Project (aid for Sudanese refugees)
Location: Richmond, VA
Place of Impact: Ethiopia
Marcus Noel, Heart of Man (entrepreneurship for at-risk students)
Location: Washington, DC
Place of Impact: USA
Renae Reynolds, Design+Culture Lab, LLC (urban transformation through design)
Location: Far Rockaway, NY
Place of Impact: USA
Robert Lee, Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (revolutionizing food waste)
Location: New York, NY
Place of Impact: USA
Rose Wang, Six Foods (sustainable food production)
Location: Boston, MA
Place of Impact: USA
Tanya Fields, The BLK ProjeK (economic development for women and youth)
Location: Bronx, NY
Place of Impact: USA
Tanyella Evans, Library For All (e-technology for education)
Location: New York
Place of Impact: Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo
Veronika Scott, The Empowerment Plan (products to support homeless populations)
Location: Detroit, MI
Place of Impact: USA
Canada Emerging Innovators 2015
Aniqah Zowmi, The ReConnect Movement
Location: St. Catharines, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Ashley Wiles, Sole Girls
Location: Vancouver, BC
Place of Impact: Canada
Candice Mazzoleni, The Second Line
Location: Montreal, QC
Place of Impact: Canada
Christina Marchand, FullSoul Canada
Location: Waterloo, ON
Place of Impact: Uganda
Donn Eric Pasiliao, STEAMLabs
Location: Toronto, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Eric Termuende, Gen Y Inc.
Location: Calgary, AB
Place of Impact: Canada
Erin Millar, Discourse Media
Location: Vancouver, BC
Place of Impact: Canada
Jessica Ho, SparkGig
Location: North York, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Johnson Fung, The Grammaticus
Location: Toronto, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Jonah Brotman, Hult Impact Fund
Location: Toronto, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Lars Boggild, Finance for Good
Location: Toronto, ON/Calgary, AB
Place of Impact: Canada
Linda Sarvi, Zenith Cleaning
Location: Toronto, ON/Montreal, QC
Place of Impact: Canada
Marc Soberano, Building Up
Location: Toronto, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Marine Bonnell, La Route des Possibles
Location: Montreal, QC
Place of Impact: Canada
Maxwell Tran, Ink Movement
Location: Mississauga, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Rachel Friesen, EyeCheck
Location: Kitchener, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Rashmi Patel, Northern World Entertainment Software (NWES)
Location: Fort Smith, NWT
Place of Impact: Canada
Shaharris Beh, HackerNest
Location: Toronto, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Shaun Frankson, The Plastic Bank
Location: Vancouver, BC
Place of Impact: Canada
Terrence Ho, Equal Grounds
Location: Toronto, ON
Place of Impact: Canada
Place of Impact: Sénégal
Place of Impact: Kenya
Place of Impact: Kenya
Place of Impact: Tanzania
Blog
2.42 L'historique est assez particulier. Le projet est né du SIH (système d'information pour hôpital) et le site pilote était l'hôpital régional de Thies. C'est Mamadou Beye qui était le concepteur du projet. Il travaillait auprès d'un groupe d'informatique et après dissolution du groupe le projet a disparu. Mais le directeur de l'hôpital du site pilote avait vu l'impact qu'avait le logiciel auprès de la structure et a tout fait pour retrouver Beye pour faire renaitre le projet. C'est la raison pour laquelle l'hôpital de Thies est le site pilote, il exploite le site depuis 2006, maintenant nous sommes sur 45 sites.
Guides & Resources
Guide to Pitching: How to woo funders and supporters.
Ashoka Fellow Directory: Easy way to identify the leading social entrepreneurs in your sector.
A Changemaker's Guide To Storytelling: Step by step guide for crafting a "sticky" story.
Ashoka's Feature Blog: Cutting-edge content with the pulse on social innovation.
48 TED Talks: On "how to change the world," as David Bornstein said.
Changemakers Learning Page: Just can't get enough Guides & Resources? Then check out our full list.
Past Participants
