Andrew [Drew] Marshall's Page

Here in the USA it is relatively easy to turn a blind eye to the concept of food shortage. Occasionally, the price of oranges might jump because of a problem with the harvest in Florida. Or, spinach might become unavailable due to the contamination of farmland in the primary growing area in California, causing an e-coli outbreak.



But the kind of pervasive widespread hunger. That insidious gnawing in the belly is foreign to most. And to those who feel those hunger pangs,… Continue

The Social Innovator Series is the result of a two year collaboration between NESTA and The Young Foundation to develop a set of "rich, practical resources for social innovators." These resources are freely available on the NESTA website.



They have jointly published three reports which may be of value to Evoke… Continue

The unemployment rate in the USA hit 10% in 2009 and stayed stuck there for two years. Everyone realized that we were going to be in it for the long haul when in the space of 18 months the same number of jobs that had been added to the economy in the last decade had been wiped out. We recognized that even if the economy magically returned to the same level of output at its height in 2007 it would still take three years for the 7.9 million newly unemployed to (perhaps find their way back into… Continue

I picked Yared Fubusa as one of my Evoke Heroes as has founded the Gombe School of Environment and Society. This school is focused on improving

conditions for people and wildlife. He is achieving this through community education programs that promote self-reliance, economic and cultural vitality as well as human health and peace. Yared is an Ashoka Fellow (nominated in 2008) and he is making the educational experience of rural Tanzanians relevant

to the situations in which they live,… Continue