On October 7, 2010, 12 new social entrepreneurs have joined the network of social innovators identified and supported by Ashoka because they use their entrepreneurial skills to serve innovative activities that have the potentiel, when developing and scaling to solve social and environmental problems.
Anne Roos-Weil was one of “Ashoka Felllows” rewarded at the ceremony for her project Pesinet.
To help her to develop the activity and the impact of her project on society, Ashoka will provide her with financial support, networking, contacts, and pro-bono consulting services (in management, communication, legal issues, HR, etc..) by partners such as McKinsey, Latham & Watkins, Hill & Knowlton, CrossKnowledge, Krauthammer …
“These 12 new Social Entrepreneurs will now be part, all life long, of the Ashoka network consisting of some 3,000 of their peers worldwide. Because the crisis we are still in is making social and environmental problems even more acute, Ashoka continues its work to identify, or even initiate, and propagate new models able to address effectively and on a vast scale these critical challenges, “said Arnaud Mourot, CEO of Ashoka France, Belgium, Switzerland.
About Ashoka
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 2,700 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 70 countries.
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