How to Partner with Big Tech Companies to Scale and Accelerate Your Positive Impact

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  • Jeanine Buzali Ashoka Changemaker Companies Director of Business Development

Keywords:

changemaker companies, positive leadership, social entrepreneurship, tech for impact

Abstract

Microsoft and Ashoka have been working together for the past two years to launch the Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact Program at Microsoft, a program for impact entrepreneurs that also has a component of engaging Microsoft Leaders as mentors and sponsors of some of the entrepreneurs in the program. We compiled our lessons learned about how entrepreneurs can best partner with a major corporation like Microsoft to accelerate and scale their positive impact.

Author Biography

Jeanine Buzali, Ashoka Changemaker Companies Director of Business Development

Based in Washington DC, Jeanine co-leads Ashoka’s corporate transformation practice, working primarily with multi-national corporations to build ecosystems that advance material impact goals and foster a culture of changemaking among companies’ key stakeholders. Jeanine has built a career helping organizations drive change from the inside out, working with social enterprises, non-profits and companies in India, China, Mexico, Israel and the US in a variety of strategy and change management roles. She has been at Ashoka for 5 years, driving the global expansion of the Changemaker Companies movement. She is originally from Mexico and Israel and has spent most of her adult life working internationally.

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Published

2024-01-18

How to Cite

Buzali, J. (2024). How to Partner with Big Tech Companies to Scale and Accelerate Your Positive Impact . Social Innovations Journal, 23. Retrieved from https://socialinnovationsjournal.com/index.php/sij/article/view/7108

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Vol. 23 (2024): Social Entrepreneurs Leveraging and Shaping Artificial Intelligence

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Promising Practices

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