Ashoka
American 'social entrepreneurs' founded by McKinsey & Co's Bill Drayton of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Drayton also founded Youth Venture a similar organisation in the US.[1] He successfully 'intrapreneured' the introduction of emissions trading and served briefly in the White House. Ashoka Fellows operate through partnerships with professionals from McKinsey and Hill & Knowlton. It places selected volunteers around the world and has ties to the Carnegie Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. (1)
It operates PR for big organisations (power companies in Indonesia etc.) to adjust the public to their needs and procedures through 'propaganda philanthropy'. It also helps control public forums, organises 'independent' groups as pro-corporate spokespeople and tries to divide critics. In Turkey it works with George Soros' Open Society Institute.(2)
