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Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,000 Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries putting their system changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka has provided start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka launched the field of social entrepreneurship and has activated multi-sector partners across the world who increasingly look to entrepreneurial talent and new ideas to solve social problems.
Ashoka Fellows remain the core of our community, and their insights show us how the world is moving and what is needed next. Ashoka's mission has evolved beyond catalyzing individual entrepreneurs to enabling an "everyone a changemaker" world. This means equipping more people – including young people - with the skillset and a connection to purpose so that they can contribute ideas and effectively solve problems at whatever scale is needed in their family, community, city, workplace, field, industry, country. This evolution comes from the urgent realization that the pace of change is accelerating in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. Our strategic initiatives focus on setting in motion the people, resources and ecosystems that will bring about a social revolution where everyone contributes to change for the good of all. Working in partnership with private, philanthropic and citizen sector players we are achieving large-scale social innovation that is grounded in decades of entrepreneurial experience. Get InvolvedAshoka strives to fulfill our vision of Everyone A Changemaker™ by encouraging people from all over the world to be involved in furthering our work.
There are a number of ways you can get involved:
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Promote Group EntrepreneurshipAshoka Fellows working together are creating a network of incalculable power. All around the world, Ashoka facilitates collaborations of Fellows so that they can learn from one another, share valuable knowledge and insights, and leave better equipped to advance their work.
As a result of global collaborations, Ashoka is able to distill the most effective patterns and unify them into a "mosaic"— a synthesis of the commonalities and intersections of key principles that guide Fellows’ individual solutions. These overarching mosaics are then disseminated globally, and form the basis of our programmatic initiatives specific to each field of work, such as youth development or the environment. In this way, group entrepreneurship not only helps Fellows become more successful, but it also helps Ashoka identify cutting edge trends and implement them more broadly. |
Contact Ashoka Global
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Ashoka is the world’s largest association of leading social entrepreneurs with a world headquarters in the D.C. Metro Region and regional offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
For information on your local Ashoka office please visit our regional office website listings.
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General inquiries: info@ashoka.org Press inquiries: tchoi@ashoka.org Web inquiries: web@ashoka.org Donations: invest@ashoka.org Recruitment: search@ashoka.org Changemakers: connect@changemakers.com Youth Venture, Inc.: yvinfo@youthventure.org Join us on Twitter #socent or on Facebook! |
Ashoka USA Fellows
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Ashoka Fellows are leading social entrepreneurs who we recognize to have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society. They demonstrate unrivaled commitment to bold new ideas and prove that compassion, creativity, and collaboration are tremendous forces for change. Ashoka Fellows work in over 60 countries around the globe in every area of human need.
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About Ashoka in the United States
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We build networks of pattern-changing social innovators and select high-impact entrepreneurs, who creatively solve some of the world's biggest social challenges, to become Ashoka Fellows. Ashoka believes that there is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur. Social entrepreneurs are relentless team-builders and problem-solvers who set new norms in their fields of work. They are practical visionaries – practical in that they are highly attentive to the nuts and bolts of making things work, and visionary in that they often reframe the problem, build roles for others to participate, and cast a long term view for change at least at the national level.
If you know of anyone that fits the description, do let us know by nominating that person via ourwebsite. Our Vision:Ashoka envisions an Everyone A ChangemakerTM world. A world that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confi dence and societal support to address any social problem and drive change. Our Mission:Ashoka finds and fosters the most powerful emergent ideas being led by the most effective social entrepreneurs and provides a pathway for all citizens to be changemakers. Ashoka’s Programs in the US:Ashoka’s Venture & Fellowship program identifies and elects leading social entrepreneurs to the global Ashoka Fellowship and provides support, community, collaboration opportunities, and recognition. |
Ashoka also builds empowered changemaker communities in the US by spreading the skills of entrepreneurship, empathy, and collaboration across sectors and institutions through the following programs:
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