About Ashoka Netherlands

SELECTING AND SUPPORTING LEADING INNOVATORS

HOW DO WE IDENTIFY LEADERS CHANGING THE SYSTEMS?

Ashoka engages the world’s largest and most powerful network of social entrepreneurs by searching for and selecting the world’s leading social entrepreneurs: Ashoka Fellows. Ashoka pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship almost 40 years ago, and today it continues to build the largest global network of leading social entrepreneurs.

Ashoka searches the world for leading social entrepreneurs through an intensive, human-centered process, selecting them into our global, trust-based fellowship of peers. Across the globe, we use the following selection criteria and the process (Venture process) to elect Ashoka Fellows:

Since launching Ashoka in the Netherlands in 2014, we have elected and supported a number of Dutch social innovators who are bringing system change in the Netherlands and beyond.

Meet the Dutch Ashoka Fellows

ENABLING ENTREPRENEURS TO CHANGE SYSTEMS AND LEAD US INTO A WORLD IN WHICH EVERYONE CAN BE A CHANGEMAKER

We make sure that the Ashoka brand, the engagements we curate and facilitate, and the connections we open are valuable to each Fellow. We invite Fellows to make the most of the network through interactions that will increase their chances for deepening their social impact.

ASHOKA NETHERLANDS IS DELIVERING VALUE FOR OUR FELLOWS IN ACROSS 5 KEY AREAS:

We believe that anyone can become a changemaker and we strive for a world in which every young person is equipped and inclined to contribute to the common good. In order to empower every young person to become a changemaker, we need to change the way in which we educate young people. Ashoka launched the Changemaker Schools Programme in 2012 to build a community of education institutions that prioritize the cultivation of empathy, teamwork, leadership, and changemaking in their students.  

Ashoka Netherlands has selected 9 Changemaker Schools. Once selected, the schools are connected with each other and with Ashoka’s community of social entrepreneurs and supporters from different sectors with the aim of reshaping the traditional education system. 

Meet the Dutch Changemaker Schools

The Ashoka Support Network (ASN) is a global community of successful, innovative leaders from a variety of fields, who connect with the world's leading social entrepreneurs to accelerate positive social change. They support Ashoka financially as well as strategically, offering their time, network and expertise.

In the Netherlands, we have a strong community of ASN members who provide their guidance and expertise to Ashoka Fellows and Changemaker Schools, supporting them to amplify their social impact. They do so in several key ways:

• Providing Mentorship

• Building Networks for Fellows

• Becoming Ambassadors for Fellows and Ashoka

• Sitting on Advisory Boards

• Investing Resources

• Bringing in Expertise

• Building New Partnerships

Globally, the Ashoka Support Network consists of over 400 members in 20 countries throughout Europe, North America, South America, India, and beyond - as it continues to expand.

Are you a business leader and do you want to share your expertise?

Join the Ashoka Support Network in the Netherlands; a network of experts, entrepreneurs and professionals supporting the world's top social innovators. 

Don’t hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected] to learn more about how members bring value to and benefit from the Ashoka Support Network. 

We build Co-Creation & Changemaker Alliances where social entrepreneurs, businesses, and policy makers complement each other’s skills and expertise to take on challenges that no one could solve alone, and simultaneously have access to new strategic win-win opportunities.