Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurs

Discover below some opportunities to get to know Ashoka better and get involved in our activities.

Attend our events

We host conversations about today's most pressing challenges and ways to overcome them. Attend an event to meet, join discussions with, and learn from the Ashoka's global community of changemakers.

Events in Switzerland Events around the world

Recommend a social entrepreneur

Ashoka searches the world for leading social entrepreneurs through an intensive, human-centered process, selecting them into our global, trust-based fellowship of peers.

Learn more about our selection criteria for the election of social entrepreneurs to join our network. Browse the page below to get all the information you need to nominate an Ashoka Fellow to-be.

Take part

Support Ashoka and its Fellows

Anyone can access their power to contribute to the good of all by helping propel creative solutions to the world’s most difficult challenges. Tap into your own changemaking power by using your unique talents and skills to help scale the impact of Ashoka Fellows, global staff, and others within the Ashoka network around the world.

You can explore the opportunities of working with us or browse our marketplace, in which regular offers are uploaded and where you can submit your volunteer proposal. [Volunteering: check out our Frequently Asked Questions for volunteering and, for travelers, our Volunteer Checklist.]

Our volunteer marketplace Our career opportunities

Resources for Social Entrepreneurs

Discover below some learning resources, developed together with our leading social entrepreneurs, Ashoka Fellows. From courses, to readings and videos, we have prepared some special material for you.

Changemaking.net

Course

A concentrated course about how to best echo the roots of your social problem, featuring user-friendly videos and worksheets

Discover the Course

The Social Investment Toolkit

Moduled toolkit

Get guidance from Ashoka and UBS on raising finance and discover what social investors are looking for.

Go to the toolkit

The Guide to The Seven Key Questions

PDF

Get tips and tricks on how to respond effectively to the key questions that all social entrepreneurs should ask themselves

Get Your Answers

Creative Solutions for Changing Times

Reading

By analysing 194 Ashoka Fellows, we have uncovered how innovators tackle Europe's pressing social challenges.

Discover The Study

Leadership and Wellbeing

Various resources

Get some tools on how to unite positve leadership with positive wellbeing for social change.

Discover all

New work needs inner work

Book

Discover the tools used to help organizations to move towards distributed leadership and self-awareness

Read about New Leadership

Embracing Complexity

Reading

This report is a global effort to unite leading citizen sector actors, funding and delivering systems change.

Go to the Report

Collective Leadership

Reading

Discover why collective leadership, not a lone hero, is the pathway to groundbreaking change.

Read The Article

The Systems Change Podcast

Podcast

A 6-episode series on systems change, conversations with the world’s leading changemakers and pioneering actors.

Go to the Podcast

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