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Ashoka is the leading organization that promotes, supports and invests on social entrepreneurs.

As a global initiative by Ashoka, Youth Venture was launched with the vision that everyone in society can be a changemaker who could take initiative and address social needs. We believe that it is critical that people learn early on in life that they can lead social change so that they can eventually continue to take initiatives and lead throughout their lives.

Youth Venture helps build teams of young people who can and will address key societal problems in their community. We provide training, coaching, and seed funding to Youth Venture teams in order to help them design, launch and run their own social ventures, catalyzing a movement of youth-led social change.


Ashoka and Ateneo School of Government run Beyond Bottomlines Seminar

By Harvey S. Keh

Ashoka-Philippines and The Ateneo de Manila University-School of Government (ASoG) conducted "Beyond bottomlines: An introduction to social entrepreneurship" on July 12,2008. Thirty-eight participants from different schools, companies, foundations, socio-civic organizations and non-profit organizations attended the whole-day seminar at the Ateneo Professional Schools campus at Rockwell Center, Makati City.

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It began with Harvey Keh, Director for Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship at the ASOG formally welcoming the participants and running through the day's activities with them. Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan's Jess Pasibe followed by giving a comprehensive look at our current national situation and at the same time identifying what are the most pressing problems in our country today. After the national situationer, Atty. Arnel Casanova, lead faculty in the ASOG's Social Entrepreneurship class for Professionals, gave an introduction to social entrepreneurship lecture while also discussing with the participants how to make an effective Social Enterprise Business Plan.

To cap the morning's activities, Reese Fernandez of Rags2Riches and Marielle Nadal of Ideals Creatives gave talks on their respective social enterprises. During this time, Reese and Marielle described to the participants how they were able to develop successful and viable social enterprises given the limited resources that they had.

Beyond Bottomlines 1In the afternoon, participants were then given the opportunity to develop social enterprise business plans that would help alleviate problems in education, health and the environment. After their planning session, they were then asked to present to a panel composed of Dr. Antonio La Viña, Dean of the ASOG, Ms. Henedina Abad, Social Entrepreneur and Faculty member of the ASOG and Terri Jayme Program Officer of Ashoka-Philippines. The panel gave the participants comments and suggestions on how they can further improve their social enterprise plans. At the end of the seminar, Dr. La Viña congratulated the participants and challenged them to consider becoming social entrepreneurs who will ultimately become change makers in our society.


Due to the success of Beyond Bottomlines, the ASOG and Ashoka-Philippines will run Beyond Bottomlines 2: An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship Seminar this coming September 20,2008 (Saturday) at the Ateneo Professional Schools Campus, Rockwell Center, Makati City. For inquiries, please contact Katrina Wy at (02) 497-7614 or you can send an email to youthventureph@gmail.com.

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