Towards a shared understanding of funding systems change.
Elected Ashoka Nordic Fellows work in collaborative and holistic ways across the most complex global issues. Today, 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.
Creating successful and unique partnerships with different specializations to enable impact.
We believe that collaboration is key to solve complex challenges and achieve change. Therefore, we work closely together with various organizations to accomplish that.
Lone is a changemaker, social-entrepreneur and trained physiotherapist who works to humanize elderly care. She does so through her organization Activity Dose, which encourages caring for the whole...
In 2011, Kentucky-based social entrepreneur Stacey Epperson set out to address the shortage of safe, affordable housing, a problem she knew well from her upbringing in rural Appalachia.
In the years...
Jennie Perzon and Erik Feldt are values-based leaders with a strong urge to make a difference. Following their passion for change and collaboration, Jennie and Erik decided to join the Ashoka Support...
During the first edition of the Young Changemaker of the Year award in Finland, Mari Tikkanen was one of the mentors that supported the You Tell Me collective to grow and develop their social...
Welcome to our third episode of Ashoka Nordic special podcast series, developed in collaboration with Leading with social impact. In our third episode, we present you to our inspiring Nordic Fellow...
Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading Changemakers on its own. Do you know - or are you yourself - someone with a path-breaking new idea who is approaching problem-solving in an entrepreneurial and creative way?
I truly believe in collaboration, across sectors, across organizations and among people with different ideas and approaches. An open mind and passion for change are both crucial ingredients towards real collaboration and this has been evident across my interactions with Ashoka’s network.
Jennie Perzon
ASN member and Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets, Stockholm School of Economics
Joining the Ashoka Fellowship was an opportunity for us to connect with the community of Ashoka team members, advisors, fellows, etc. being able to understand more in-depth what it means to bring systems change.
Rustam Nabiev
Ashoka Nordic Fellow and founder of Shifo Foundation
I think Ashoka is a fantastic platform for networking and a catalysator for systems change.
Annika Pärson
ASN member and Chair of Young Solidarity Foundation
Ashoka's Fellowship program is a really unique resource and society platform that thinks more about exponential approaches to scaling, providing a really helpful framework for doing exactly that together with a cohort of experts from the field of social innovation.
Sascha Haselmayer
Ashoka Nordic Fellow and Founder of Citymart
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.
Forbes
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