Social entrepreneurs are first responders to the COVID-19 crisis. This is why they need support.
Ashoka joins with the 60 members of the COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs to provide interventions that support social entrepreneurship during COVID-19
As we work to find more social entrepreneurs addressing
systemic racism and its effects, we look to veteran Ashoka
Fellows closest to the issues – for perspective, insight, and
wisdom rooted in lived experience and decades of work.
Embracing complexity. Towards a shared understanding of funding systems change.
As we stand on the threshold of an epochal decade, we are confronted with an urgent need to find, fund, and support transformative solutions at a far greater pace than ever.
Our newly elected Ashoka Fellows work in collaborative and holistic ways across eight complex global issues.
The Emerging Insights Report shows patterns in how these Fellows actually create change in their communities and beyond, and the tools they have been using to achieve success.
The world is defined by change and requires a new mindset...
Social entrepreneurs are first responders to the COVID-19...
Building a Just Society
Embracing complexity. Towards a shared understanding of...
Emerging Insights
Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who see that the world now requires everyone to be a changemaker. Together, we collaborate to transform institutions and cultures worldwide so they support changemaking for the good of society.
Timo, a young changemaker from Switzerland, is on a path to reimagine education through design thinking and project-based learning. Embedded within his story are the early years of social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow Christiane Daepp, an ally, and advocate for young people like Timo to be changemakers.
A new report titled “New Allies” identifies action areas for governments to foster collaboration with systems social entrepreneurs, who can be crucial allies for governments in tackling the challenges...
Ashoka has elected 3,700+ Fellows across more than 90 countries over the last 40+ years. Together with 250+ change institutions and 300+ partners, we form a strong, diverse and vibrant ecosystem of change agents collaborating and co-leading to positively transform societies and cultures around the world.
How society helps children grow up needs fundamental innovation at least as urgently as in how it produces computers. That is why Ashoka is so important. It finds, helps launch, and then links and leverages the most powerful social innovations and innovators.
Carol Bellamy
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Bill Drayton emphasized to us [that] empathy is increasingly becoming our primary resource for dealing with the exponential rate of change the world is going through.
Arianna Huffington
Founder, The Huffington Post
We recognize a new era is about to start. In this new era, empathy and changemaking skills, which Ashoka exemplifies, would equip our young people to lead the country.
Kan Suzuki
Professor at Tokyo University and Keio University
No matter a person’s abilities, if he or she helps others – to that degree he or she will be powerful, happy, and long-lived. That’s why Ashoka’s leadership in building a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e., a giver, makes it so special and powerful.
Timothy P. Shriver
Chairman, the Special Olympics
Forbes knows that the story is change. No one sees that more clearly than Ashoka. It has an extraordinary ability both to envision the big, new patterns and to engineer their emergence.
