By Chris Fusciardi | Kalamazoo Gazette File photoJuan Olivarez, named the new president of Grand Rapids' Aquinas College, has led the Kalamazoo Community Foundation for the last three years. KALAMAZOO — When he took over the reins as president and ... See all stories on this topic » | Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com |
One of the most significant challenges to social entrepreneurship and innovation is ensuring a diversity of approaches and participants in the movement. To truly deliver meaningful social change the leaders of the effort must share perspectives of the challenges faced by communities across the U.S. that can most appropriately come from members of those communities. Ashoka, through its All America initiative seeks to increase the diversity of social entrepreneurship practitioners.