Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur Network

The Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur — or E² — Network is a growing yet exclusive network of world-class founders and CEOs.

Our members have built businesses that transformed the world around them, and they have created generational wealth for themselves and others.

Now, with the E² Network, they apply their skills, experience, and poly-capital to addressing the world’s most challenging issues, in partnership with Ashoka Fellows, staff, and young changemakers.

This is what we do.

Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship since the early 1980s. Our Fellowship program includes over 4,000 of the world's most impactful social entrepreneurs.

Through the E² Network, our members support select Ashoka Fellows as mentors and thought partners. They catalyze our Fellows’ impact by deploying their network, influence, and financial capital. And they push the boundaries of what’s possible, by co-creating new and innovative solutions.

MEET OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

Bob Chapman

Bob Chapman is the CEO, Chairman, and visionary leader of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, a global manufacturing firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Having inherited the CEO role in 1975 at the age...

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James Rhee

James Rhee is a transformative CEO, investor, and educator on a journey to becoming an influential thought leader. A former high school teacher and private equity investor, James received widespread...

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Chinedu Echeruo

Chinedu Echeruo is a successful serial entrepreneur committed to transforming economic disparity in the United States. Born in Nigeria but now calling New York his home, Chinedu has founded a plethora...

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Once you are part of Ashoka, you are in it for life. It sets a very high bar for the rest of the philanthropy we get into because I can see these are people driving true change.

Anne Wojcicki, Founder of 23andMe, traveled with Ashoka to visit Sunitha Krishnan, an Ashoka Fellow in India. This visit brought Anne face-to-face with child survivors of human trafficking. Anne was so impressed by Sunitha's innovative approach to protect India's children that she went on to contribute unrestricted financial resources, insights, and her network. Anne's contribution helps Sunitha and other Ashoka Fellows change national policy and replicate their innovations around the world.

4,000 Ashoka Fellows across 95 countries

The world's most visionary business entrepreneurs

Ashoka's systems thinking & collaborative leadership

EXPONENTIAL IMPACT

Visionary changemakers across the world often speak the same language. All that’s needed is to put them together and give them a clear mandate — say, tackling urban poverty or global deforestation — and magic happens.

EXCLUSIVE MEMBER BENEFITS

Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur members go through a rigorous search & selection process. Network members are selected for their ability to change systems — both in their industry and in society.

A selected member gives generously: experience, energy, resources, and strategic insights.

In return, the E² Network provides members with an opportunity to:

Exponentially increase the social return of their philanthropic investments

Access a global network of socially committed entrepreneurs and Changemaker Companies

Co-lead a systems-change initiative with global impact

Engage their employees with Ashoka to help them step into leadership and impact

Attend round tables with Ashoka's leadership team and other exclusive Ashoka events

Go on learning journeys to visit Fellow organizations around the world

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Funding Ashoka is rewarding because I know it will help identify and support social innovators who are changing education. Especially in the era of AI, we need to make sure that future generations can thrive.

Brian Kim, Chairman and Founder of the South Korean tech giant Kakao, joined Ashoka as an enthusiastic supporter of Hye-Shin Chung, an Ashoka Fellow in South Korea who enables ordinary citizens to help the people around them overcome trauma. Brian then co-created a national multi-million dollar initiative with Ashoka focused on building the new field of "future education" and accelerating the educational paradigm change in South Korea by bringing innovators together.

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Njideka U. Harry
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Relationships

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Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur Network

The Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur — or E2 — Network is a growing yet exclusive network of world-class founders and CEOs.

Our members have built businesses that transformed the world around them, and they have created generational wealth for themselves and others.

Now, with the E2 Network, they apply their skills, experience, and poly-capital to addressing the world’s most challenging issues, in partnership with Ashoka Fellows, staff, and young changemakers.

This is what we do.

Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship since the early 1980s. Our Fellowship program includes over 4,000 of the world's most impactful social entrepreneurs.

Through the E2 Network, our members support select Ashoka Fellows as mentors and thought partners. They catalyze our Fellows’ impact by deploying their network, influence, and financial capital. And they push the boundaries of what’s possible, by co-creating new and innovative solutions.

INFLUENCE FOR GOOD

Our members know that poly-capital is crucial for achieving large-scale social impact.

This is also the main finding from a recent report by Ashoka, McKinsey, and other partners. We explored the question:

How can highly resourced individuals most effectively use their different forms of capital to create a better world?

MEET OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

Bob Chapman

James Rhee

Chinedu Echeruo

4,000 Ashoka Fellows across 95 countries

The world's most visionary business entrepreneurs

Ashoka's systems thinking & collaborative leadership

EXPONENTIAL IMPACT

Visionary changemakers across the world often speak the same language. All that’s needed is to put them together and give them a clear mandate — say, tackling urban poverty or global deforestation — and magic happens.

EXCLUSIVE MEMBER BENEFITS

Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur members go through a rigorous search & selection process. Network members are selected for their ability to change systems — both in their industry and in society.

A selected member gives generously: experience, energy, resources, and strategic insights.

In return, the E2 Network provides members with an opportunity to:

Exponentially increase the social return of their philanthropic investments

Access a global network of socially committed entrepreneurs and Changemaker Companies

Co-lead a systems-change initiative with global impact

Co-lead a systems-change initiative with global impact

Engage their employees with Ashoka to help them step into leadership and impact

Engage their employees with Ashoka to help them step into leadership and impact

Attend round tables with Ashoka's leadership team and other exclusive Ashoka events

Go on learning journeys to visit Fellow organizations around the world

FROM THE ENTREPRENEUR-TO-ENTREPRENEUR BLOG

The E2 Experience: How Visionary Business Entrepreneurs Build Systemic Impact With Ashoka

Why Do We Teach Children About Kindness?

Meet the Change: Convening the E2 Network in Boston

From Influence to Social Impact: Mobilizing Resources for Good

Driving a New Narrative: How Women Are Changing the Philanthropy Game

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The Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur — or E² — Network is a growing yet exclusive network of world-class founders and CEOs.

Now, with the E² Network, they apply their skills, experience, and poly-capital to addressing the world’s most challenging issues, in partnership with Ashoka Fellows, staff, and young changemakers.

Through the E² Network, our members support select Ashoka Fellows as mentors and thought partners. They catalyze our Fellows’ impact by deploying their network, influence, and financial capital. And they push the boundaries of what’s possible, by co-creating new and innovative solutions.

In return, the E² Network provides members with an opportunity to: