Who is an Ashoka Support Network (ASN) member?

Unlike traditional philanthropists, ASN members are changemakers who fully apply their creativity, energy, and connections to effect positive social change. By pledging to contribute a minimum amount to Ashoka over a three-year period, ASN members gain exclusive access to connect and engage with Ashoka Fellows.

ASN members engage with Ashoka and Ashoka Fellows in a number of different ways, based on their interests and skills: ASN members frequently participate in Ashoka Globalizer events, serve on advisory boards for Ashoka Fellows, attend local/regional retreats with members of the Ashoka community, assist Ashoka staff with institution-building efforts, and congregate at the ASN Global Summit—among other engagement opportunities.

What is the criteria to become an ASN member?

Selection consists of one or several meetings where Ashoka staff, together with a peer or a Fellow, validate the following criteria:​

  1. Ethical fiber. 
  2. Alignment with Ashoka’s vision. 
  3. Ability to contribute expertise and/or network. 
  4. Financial capacity.

What do our members say?

" What is the legacy that I want to leave behind?

Ashoka is a wake-up call. I have learned that there are, actually, many opportunities to step into radical systemic change, to up my game, help shape better global policies and participate in shifting the dynamics of social inequalities, both in the social and in the business sectors. "

Fabienne Serfaty,
Strategy Consultant and Social Impact Investor, UK,
Ashoka Support Network Member

fabienne

Read More

2018 Global Study Finds Ashoka Fellows Change Policy, Market Dynamics, and How People Think

In 2018, Ashoka led one of the largest and most diverse studies of system changing social entrepreneurs ever conducted. And we found that Ashoka Fellows are having systems-level impact — 74 percent...

Read more

How Ashoka’s New Fellows Change Systems, Cross Borders, and Shift Mindsets

This collection showcases how our 2018 Ashoka Fellows are working to affect change on today's most pressing issues.

Read more
ngo advisor

Ashoka Rated One of the Top Five Most Impactful Social Good Organizations

NGO Advisor puts Ashoka at #5 in its annual list of the world's top 200 citizen sector organizations

Read more

Staff Members

Alexandra Pilavachi

Alexandra Pilavachi

Director of Community, Ashoka UK & Ireland

Alexandra Pilavachi

Alexandra Pilavachi

Director of Community, Ashoka UK & Ireland

United Kingdom

Alexandra is the Director of Community at Ashoka UK & Ireland, stewarding a thriving network of leading social entrepreneurs, senior business leaders, donors, supporters and partner organisations. Alexandra has a background in marketing and communications having worked in brand management roles at Procter & Gamble before setting up her own coaching and consulting practice. Through that she supported early stage purpose driven ventures with creative problem solving, business strategy and leadership development. She is an On Purpose Fellow and actively involved in numerous organisations as a volunteer.

Nikki Gravning

Nikki Gravning

Country Co-Director, Ashoka UK & Ireland

Nikki Gravning

Nikki Gravning

Country Co-Director, Ashoka UK & Ireland

United Kingdom

Nikki Gravning is Country Director of Ashoka UK with a core focus on partnerships to embed radical collaboration and changemaking for a better world into the corporate landscape. Before joining Ashoka, Nikki successfully led the Social Innovation Strategy for New Zealand’s National Innovation Agency to change the funding landscape for social entrepreneurs in the country. She has mentored social enterprises in accelerator programs and helped raise $2 million for New Zealand’s largest social enterprise in 2017. She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper Alumni and a Centre for Sustainability Leadership Fellow from her days in Sydney, Australia.