Our Priorities

Ashoka focuses on three strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt to a world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a leader

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Social Entrepreneurship


Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to an everyone-a-changemaker world.
 

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Empathy and Young Changemaking

Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they have the power to lead, to contribute — to be in charge.

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Organizing for Changemaking


Living and working in our changemaker world requires breaking through silos, tearing down walls, and organizing in fluid, open, teams of teams.

What We Do

Ashoka supports an "Everyone a Changemaker" world through its programs in more than 90 countries, building and amplifying this global movement in three stages:

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Identify and support the world's leading social entrepreneurs

We find and cultivate social entrepreneurs in every corner of the world, whose system-changing innovations solve deep-rooted social problems. After a rigorous application process, we invite them into the Ashoka Fellowship - providing early stage financial support and a lifetime membership into an expansive network of peers and partners - enabling them to achieve their vision and have even greater impact. Ashoka sets its strategic priorities by drawing on the insights of a core group of Fellows whose work reveals an opportunity for catalyzing transformative change. These Fellows serve as co-leaders of a movement that contributes to an "everyone a changemaker" society.

Venture & Fellowship
Ashoka Support Network
Ashoka Globalizer
Ashoka Executive in Residence
Ashoka Wellbeing

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Accelerate the "Everyone a Changemaker" world

For each of Ashoka's strategic priorities, we mobilize a network of organizations to join us in shifting mindsets and reshaping how we learn, work, and live together to catalyze changemaking for the good of society. We partner with schools, universities, corporations, citizen sector organizations, media, and other influencers to co-lead this movement with us.

AshokaU
Ashoka Changemaker Schools
Ashoka Social Financial Services
Entrepreneur 2 Entrepreneur
Organizing for Changemaking

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Equip Everyone to be a Changemaker

Working with our movement co-leaders and partner institutions, we inspire and enable changemaking in the public-at-large, and work to give all citizens the confidence and tools to solve problems for the good of all.

Ashoka Young Changemakers
Ashoka Changemakers
Ashoka Youth Venture

Ashoka in the United States


Ashoka’s country and regional offices around the world co-create and co-lead Ashoka’s programming. This enables our global changemaker community to capture and act upon emerging insights, knowledge, and talents of innovators from a wide range of cultural and regional contexts.
 

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Our Team

Ashoka is a team of people working together from 35 country offices around the world to advance a world in which Everyone is a Changemaker. Ashoka staff members are team players who are entrepreneurial and are driven to make powerful ideas real.

Meet Our Team

See a list of team members from around the world helping to advance an "everyone a changemaker" world

Our Leadership

Meet Ashoka's Leadership Team and Board of Directors
 

Work for Ashoka

Explore career opportunities with Ashoka
 

Ashoka invites everyone to contribute in the most powerful way by joining with us as co-leaders in the "everyone a changemakers" movement. We are social entrepreneurs -- and change leaders -- across sectors who are bringing this powerful framework to our communities, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods.

Your contribution enables us to elect new social entrepreneurs into our fellowship, provide support services to existing Fellows, and launch collaborations between Fellows and companies to promote continued innovation in areas of pressing global need.