Ashoka's Impact
「誰もがチェンジメーカーである世界」を目指して
アショカは米ワシントンに本部を構え、世界90カ国以上で活動する、世界最大の社会起業家グローバルネットワークです。社会にある歪みを生み出す構造的欠陥の変革に取り組む社会起業家を「アショカ・フェロー」として発掘・支援しています。また、若者チェンジメーカーを発掘し支援する「ユースベンチャー・プログラム」は活動の大きな柱です。
Envisioning an "Everyone a Changemaker" world
4年ぶりの We Are the Change開催しました
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 SuzukiProfessor 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 HuffingtonFounder, 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 WojcickiCo-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 BellamyFormer 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. ShriverChairman, 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.
India Today
皆さまからの寄付金でアショカ・ジャパンの取り組み全てが実現しています!少額からの寄付も受け付けております。突出した社会起業家や若者チェンジメーカーを発掘し、支援する活動を進め、一緒により良い社会を作っていきましょう。皆様からのご支援をどうぞよろしくお願いたします。