システムチェンジに取り組み、ASHOKAの厳しい基準をパスしたアショカ・フェローや、社会の綻びに気づき自分で取り組みを立ち上げた20歳以下のユースベンチャーをはじめ、 "Everyone a Changemaker"（一人ひとりがチェンジメーカーである社会）に共感する人々を巻き込んだコミュニティを作っています。
We recognize a new era is about to start. In this new era, empathy and changemaking skills, which Ashoka exemplifies, would equip our young people to lead the country.
Kan Suzuki
Professor at Tokyo University and Keio University
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
Bill Drayton emphasized to us [that] empathy is increasingly becoming our primary resource for dealing with the exponential rate of change the world is going through.
Arianna Huffington
Founder, The Huffington Post
Being involved with Ashoka has set a high bar for the rest of philanthropy [...] because I can see that these are the people who are driving true change. [...] Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.
Anne Wojcicki
Co-Founder and CEO, 23andMe
How society helps children grow up needs fundamental innovation at least as urgently as in how it produces computers. That is why Ashoka is so important. It finds, helps launch, and then links and leverages the most powerful social innovations and innovators.
Carol Bellamy
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
No matter a person’s abilities, if he or she helps others – to that degree he or she will be powerful, happy, and long-lived. That’s why Ashoka’s leadership in building a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e., a giver, makes it so special and powerful.
Timothy P. Shriver
Chairman, the Special Olympics
The results of Ashoka’s shared leadership with the focus on solving social challenges is clear: 74 percent of Fellows have managed to change the legislation or have influenced public policies.
La Vanguardia
[Ashoka] functions as a collaborative network that supports and amplifies change by bringing together changemakers.
ASHOKAのコミュニティには、4,000人を超えるアショカ・フェローに加え、100人のAshoka Young Changemakers、そして300のパートナーが95か国以上にいます。私たちはチェンジメーカーが育ち活躍するためのエコシステムを共に作り、よりよい社会を目指して世界中にこのムーブメントを広めています。
Ashoka's Changemaker community is reshaping the narrative on COVID-19 from one of simple direct service to one of creating greater capacity for people to create change in their lives and their communities.
This is the future: where transformative solutions to the pandemic can outrun the problems.
Ashoka is proud to have joined 60 members of the COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs that support social entrepreneurs worldwide in their changemaking work during COVID-19, and support greater trust-building and collaboration between them.
