Social Entrepreneurship

We are proud to announce our new Ashoka fellows: Jimmy Westerheim (Founder of The Human Aspect Foundation in Norway); Jenny Lindström-Beijar (Founder of Our Normal Association in Sweden) and Markus Raivio (Co-founder of Kukunori and the first-ever elected fellow in Finland).

Her organization called ‘Our Normal’ connects families to show they are not alone in trying to find spaces that respect and are better suited to their children’s disabilities. Central to this process is the ability to build communities that both can be there to support each other, as well as being a...

New Ashoka fellow in Norway Jimmy Westerheim is shifting understanding of mental health challenges, exposing how they are common struggles of a shared human experience. His organization “The Human Aspect” is paving the way for this shift by opening the discussion of mental wellbeing. Individual...

The first Ashoka Fellow in Finland and co-founder of Kukunori, Markus Raivio, is leading the way for a functional peer support mindset in mental health care.

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 individual using an empathy-based and individualized approach to caring for the elderly in nursing...

Welcome to our fourth special episode of a podcast series developed in collaboration with Leading with social impact*. In this episode, we present you to the award-winning and leading social entrepreneur Jeroo Billimoria.

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 Thorkil Sonne as well as to the European Leader of Ashoka, Marie Ringler. Thorkil is the founder of...

Welcome to our second special episode of a podcast series developed in collaboration with Leading with social impact*. In this second episode, we present you to our fantastic Nordic Fellow Rustam Nabiev.

In 2021, Ashoka Nordic celebrates its 10th anniversary, which of course means reflecting and celebrating what has happened in the field of social entrepreneurship and Changemaking since the start, and setting a new bold direction for the upcoming decade.

When we know that a desolate housing estate can lead to negative consequences, why don’t more powerful partnerships club together to do something and change this reality?

In this series we are getting to know some Finnish changemakers, as Ashoka has just launched it's office in Helsinki and is actively looking for the first Finnish Ashoka Fellow and inspiring Young Changemakers.

Markus Raivio, leading social entrepreneur and participant of the Finnish Changemaker Map, founded Kukunori in 2012 to design a completely new way of working with mental health patients through culture.

Today we launch the findings of the Finnish Changemaker Mapping, a health check of the ecosystem of Changemakers and Social entrepreneurs in Finland. Carried out in partnership with Sitra Lab, this is the latest in a series of Changemaker maps that have been conducted by Ashoka across Europe.

Durukan joined the Ashoka Fellowship in 2017 and has recently moved to Sweden to adapt and duplicate his main area of work, regenerative agriculture, where he produces the highest nutritious food while going much beyond sustainability and improving the ecosystems.

Amanda Sundell, herself a social entrepreneur, is originally from Helsinki. However, she has also lived abroad for several years working with the civil society and the United Nations (UN) in the Balkans. Now we are welcoming her as Ashoka’s first Country Manager in Finland.

The world is facing an unprecedented level of plastic waste. Transparency, traceability and accountability are now more relevant than ever when it comes to the material that is choking our oceans.

This is a quote from Pippi Longstocking, perhaps the most famous character created by the much beloved Astrid Lindgren. Today, Tuesday 8 October, we gather our Nordic Ashoka community at Junibacken to celebrate the first eight years as a community.

In 2012, Ole Kassow started giving free trishaw rides to elderly residents of a nearby nursing home. Today, over 1.5 million people have taken a ride with members of Ole’s global Cycling Without Age network. It turns out that slowing down, taking in the scenery, and enjoying light conversation...

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Major push for inclusion in the Nordics – ten social entrepreneurs to scale proven solutions across borders with support from a network of partners Ashoka, the world leading organisation for social entrepreneurship and changemaking , has chosen ten social entrepreneurs to establish a big inclusion...