Ashoka Residency Program

Ashoka is the world's leading community of over 3,800 social entrepreneurs. We champion the most important new social change ideas and support the innovators behind them by helping them get started, grow, collaborate and reshape whole systems. Building on this experience of over 40 years, we have also embarked on a mission to build an Everyone a Changemaker World. An Everyone a Changemaker World is one that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and self-identify as a driver of change.

We see Ashoka as a live encyclopaedia of people, solutions, ideas and topics. To get a grasp of our universe, our Fellows on one hand work in the fields of Planet & Climate, social and financial inclusion, culture & artivism, sports for social good, nature conservation, civic participation, violence, feminism, mental health, migration and everything in between. On the other hand, our colleagues internationally have experience in organising accelerators, building communities, putting together conferences, building networks of changemaker universities and schools, increasing youth engagement, or working with governments. There are many threads we could learn from, scale and multiply for Romania, but we cannot do it alone and, in some cases, we should not have to, as there is much better local expertise on different subjects that can lead transformations where Ashoka plays a support role.

Why the Ashoka Residency Program?

An Everyone a Changemaker World for us, in Ashoka Romania, means that Ashoka is also you. The image we project of the world is one of deep connections, collaboration and accessibility. Starting with this vision, we have created the Ashoka Residency Program, a 3-month experience addressed to any changemaker in Romania who is curious to embark on a journey that explores the Ashoka universe in a way that will support them to leverage our ecosystem in their own work. The program targets especially people working in the civil society sector, but we welcome everyone from the public or private sectors if they are eager to join us. People who care about various issues, from education in rural areas to protected animal species. They are, by nature, receivers, altruists, caregivers, and valuable collaborators to us.

The goal of this program is to bring Ashoka to an open-source, collaborative framework that will help us open up to changemakers in the ecosystem and allow a larger mass of people to access our resources and opportunities more independently from our local team.

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Ashoka Residency Program is a 3-month program piloting with a cohort of 15 changemakers from the Romanian ecosystem. The experience is designed to give full access to Ashoka’s world, including:

Internal communications with updates on initiatives happening at the European and global level,
Events and workshops, whether internal or co-organised and open to Ashoka staff,
Connections with current Ashoka staff, Ashoka Support Network members and Ashoka Fellows based on previously harvested needs of the participants,
Learning experiences, such as the Fellowship modules.

All participants will go through a tailored experience based on their areas of interest and will be guided in navigating our world through both individual and collective coaching sessions.

Eligibility

The call is open for any changemaker from any sector who is eager to know more about Ashoka and explore how Ashoka’s resources can be leveraged in their own work. We will be accepting people on a rolling basis.

Ashoka Residency Program is built based on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles, meaning that the experience is open and customized to each individual’s intersectional identity. We are welcoming people from all walks of life who want to contribute to an Everyone a Changemaker World for the good of all.

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