The Ashoka Support Network is a global community of committed leaders who share, support, and advocate for Ashoka’s values and vision, while unleashing their own potential as changemakers.
By joining the Ashoka Support Network (ASN), you are invited to embark on a transformative journey. This journey is both collective and individual. Collectively, the ASN offers you the opportunity to be part of a community dedicated to fostering social change. Individually, it gives you the chance to reflect on how you want to make a difference in the world and – ultimately – empowers you to take action.
How? Ashoka has a wide range of resources, but the most valuable of these are our Fellows, the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. In connecting and interacting with them, you will be inspired and empowered to shape a better world.
Founded in 2004, the ASN is composed of 350+ members worldwide in more than 40 countries.
Learn more about how members bring value to and benefit from the Ashoka network:
Impact Report on How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker™ World
How are Ashoka Fellows engaging individuals as changemakers? What strategies do they use to build partnerships that inspire both changemakers and solutions? How are they changing systems to create a world in which everyone can contribute, and therefore, thrive?
Every three years, Ashoka conducts a study to understand how its Fellows are driving lasting social change.
This study shows how Ashoka Fellows shift mindsets, change policies, and activate others as changemakers.
It also presents the 11 strategies Ashoka Fellows use to build a world of changemakers.
Jennie Perzon, PhD student at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), loves her work at the intersection of sustainability and innovation working with large corporates, NGOs, academia and start-ups.
Tharald Nustad is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur and investor in the tech sector. He is the founder of Nordic Impact, a company that incubates and invests in social / environmental impact tech startups and impact funds. He is co-founder Katapult Future Fest, an event focusing on technology, impact investing and the future society, Katapult Accelerator, a leading accelerator for impact tech startups and Katapult Ocean, an accelerator helping and investing in ocean impact tech startups. Nordic impact is very active in the future of education, and how we can create the future we want to live in.
Tharald is active in building the impact investing ecosystem in the Nordics, and is an active player in the startup scene. He works with Ashoka helping social entrepreneurs, is an active member of Toniic, a global impact investor network, and is co-chair for the impact investing group in Nexus. He is also active in Mallin, a family office focusing on Impact real estate developments.
The only way to have good businesses in the future is to help people and the planet. The foundation of everything I do is very much based on Ashoka's vision of Everyone A Changemaker world.
Tharald Nustad
Co-Founder at Katapult Ocean
It's enriching to meet dedicated Ashoka Fellows and expand my personal network with other ASNs, particularly internationally. To be an ASN is very interesting and stimulating, and it's a pleasure to contribute to one of the world's leading NGOs.
Magnus Uggla
Business leader
Ashoka is a fantastic platform for networking and a catalysator for systems change.
Annika Sten Pärson
Chair & Co-founder of Young Solidarity Foundation
When you become an ASN member, not only does the money you invest have a huge impact, but you become a part of the Ashoka network and an important piece of the puzzle. Just as much as you give, you get back.
Maite Arango
Former VP of Grupo VIPS and President of Ashoka Spain
Visionary leader and former CEO of Volvo Car Mobility
Bodil Eriksson
Visionary leader and former CEO of Volvo Car Mobility
Bodil main areas of expertise are in strategic communication, branding and positioning, consumer insights, governmental affairs and sustainability, with broad experience in many different sectors such as food and pharmacy retail, forestry and hygiene consumer.
After a long career of almost 40 years in large Swedish corporations and with 20 years of serving on Board of Directors, Bodil’s decision to start collaborating with Ashoka was founded on her determination to seek new ways of sharing and leveraging her experiences with companies and young entrepreneurs.
Erik Feldt, Partner at Forever Sustainable, carries more than 25 years of experience working in the financial sector and holding leadership positions in different areas of expertise.
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