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The Changemakers Innovation Award Competition:
How to Build a More Ethical Society
$5,000 cash prizes were awarded to the top three winners in each competition — winners chosen by voting of this online community
This competition is hosted by Changemakers.net in partnership with the Institute for Global Ethics

The Winners of the Ethics Competition:

Investigate: Ethics Trends and Patterns

This online community voted to make these the three winners of the Ethics competition:

Costa Rica The Peace Army of Costa Rica

Nepal Displaced Youth Volunteer Program

India School as a Lighthouse of Society

The other finalists were:

Mexico		Regional Intercooperative Market for the Poor
India		Transform School to transform society
India		Making Changemakers
United States		Revolutionizing the way youth understand and r ...
Canada		Youth-driven Arts-based Dialogue For Action
Canada		The Ethics Cookbook A book about understandin ...
New Zealand		Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme
United States		Uniting academics and business to spur social ...

. . . view all 78 competition entries

Sissela Bok talks about ethics:

Sissela Bok The Pursuits of Happiness: There has been an unprecedented shift in how people the world over perceive the possibility of happiness in their own lives.

Common Values: Can they connect nations with divergent ideologies, cultures, and strategic interests?

No Future Without Forgiveness: How do we confront hatred between embittered adversaries in conflicts such as Sudan and the Middle East?

Ethics on the Bleeding Edge:

Kashmir - Reviving Ethics
in a Strife-Torn Land

Sudan - A Growing
Grassroots Movement Strives
Toward an Ethical Response

The Changemakers Innovation Awards recognize the best social change strategies that emerge from "open source" competitions hosted here every two months. Each competition cycle identifies and refines solutions to a pressing global problem.

• Introduction: Finding Ways to Build an
Ethics-Driven Society

• Ethics competition criteria and deadlines

• Selecting the Finalists: the judges

• The Ethics Mosaic of Solutions

• Editor's Note: navigating this edition.

New curriculum chapters will be added each week:
Worksheets for building decision skills:

Self-Observation Week

So We Have a Code, So What?

Defining Shared Values

21st Century Issues

Learning About Ethics: There's Only Ethics

• Ethics "How To": Resolving the Dilemmas of
Ethical Living, How Good People Make Tough
Choices

• Ethics Newsline: premier online source for news and
information about ethics and current events, published
Monday afternoons

• Changemakers Library: Exploring Ethical
Dimensions - a collection of the best online
resources

Investigate: Emerging Trends and Patterns in Social Entrepreneurship

Interview:
AVINA
Foundation Pres.
Brizio Biondi-Morra

Ahead but Not
Necessarily on Top, a New Kind of Leader for Latin America

Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) - Summer '05
What Works: Strategies, Approaches, Developments

In Your Face: The Social Enterprise that Beat City Hall

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