What We Do

Ashoka's activities in Belgium

Through Ashoka's presence in more than 90 countries, we are building and amplifying this global movement through three areas of activity. Discover who we are here.

See below the programs that are active in Belgium, for programs active in other countries check the bottom of the page.

1. Identify and support the world's leading social entrepreneurs

We find and cultivate social entrepreneurs in every corner of the world, whose system-changing innovations solve deep-rooted social problems.

Search and selection of social entrepreneurs (Venture)

We developed a rigorous selection process to identify the world's leading social entrepreneurs in every corner of the world, whose transforming bottom-up solutions solve deep-rooted social problems. The successful candidates are elected as Ashoka Fellows. Discover the Ashoka Fellows elected in Belgium.

The Venture program

Support of social entrepreneurs (Fellowship)

We provide Fellows access to strategic guidance, capacity building, and a lifetime membership into a broad network of peers and partners, enabling them to have a greater impact. Ashoka Fellows can access a European co-learning and co-creation community along with ASN members and partners.

We also join forces with other actors to strengthen our support for social entrepreneurs. In 2018 launched the first Social Investment Accelerator in Africa on agro-business.

The Fellowship program The European Fellowship program

Support of Young Changemakers (Youth)

The power of young change agents lies within their empathy, energy, creativity, and shared leadership ability to make a difference. And it's also in their ability to become role models for their peers and inspire an entire generation to improve the world.

Through our Youth For Change program in Belgium, we provide the young changemakers with access to strategic guidance, capacity building, and a broad network of peers and partners, enabling them to have a greater impact.

We also join forces with other actors in the Belgian Youth ecosystem to strengthen our support for Young Changemakers.

The Youth For Change program

Do you know a social entrepreneur or a young changemaker?

We would like to know more!

Social Entrepreneur Young Changemaker

Planet + Climate

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At Ashoka, we recognize that our planet is in crisis and that we are responsible for it. We have deluded ourselves into thinking that humans are separate from and superior to, nature. How do we fundamentally rebalance that relationship? How can our economic systems prioritize creating shared wellbeing on a healthy planet? How can we bring unlikely allies and skeptics on board?

Ashoka's Next now aims to tackle those questions and themes linked to the planet and the climate. Watch their new clip of the Future of Planet &Climate here.

? Ashoka Belgium

Our Impact Programme is an accelerator programme that nurtures collaboration between social entrepreneurs and businesses to foster systemic change in the field of Climate Change and Circularity. Through the programme we want to identify & support leading Changemakers who aim to scale their systemic solutions to achieve more depth in fighting the profound planetary crises the world is facing today. For this, the Impact Programme is supporting entrepreneurs through different levels in developing and refining their scaling strategy.

Next Now The Impact Programme

2. Accelerate the "Everyone a Changemaker" world

We mobilize a network of individuals and organizations, and build collective capacity to address global challenges by unlocking their potential to act as changemakers. We partner with a range of stakeholders: foundations, universities, corporations, civil society organizations, media and other.

Ashoka Support Network

It is a global community of committed leaders who share and advocate for Ashoka’s values and vision. ASN members finacially and strategically support Ashoka, while unleashing their own potential as changemakers.

It is a transformative journey, both on the collective and individual level. Collectively, ASN members are part of a community dedicated to fostering social change. Individually, they have the chance to reflect on how they want to make a difference in the world and – ultimately – are empowered to take action.

The Ashoka Support Network

Working with companies

We support corporates to remain relevant during times of rapid change, by looking at new ways to create value, uncharted market opportunities, and build collaborative leadership models.

We bring together pioneer companies and social entrepreneurs who are convinced that combining social impact and business is a necessity as well as an opportunity to reinvent the business world.

Our work with companies

3. Equip everyone to be a changemaker

We inspire and enable changemaking in the public-at-large, and work to give all individuals the confidence and tools to solve problems for the good of all.

Learning and Action Center

Our European think-tank leverages the insights and patterns of 3,600+ Ashoka Fellows to understand what the future needs, and makes this knowledge actionable for collective solutions to build a better world.

The Learning and Action Center

Ashoka Changemakers and the Visionary Program

We are building a global movement where anyone, anywhere, can take action to solve a social problem in their community. For instance, we have partnered with C&A Foundation on the global initiative "Fabric of Change" to support innovators for a fair and sustainable apparel industry.

Ashoka Changemakers The Visionary Program

Some of our Partners in Belgium

Find all of our partners here.

Discover our programs around the world

Above you have explored Ashoka's programs active in Belgium, many of them are also active worldwide. There are other programs though, that are either active in other specific countries or globally, but haven't yet found a local application in Belgium. Browse them to discover the full Ashoka universe.

Discover the programs

Our reports and legal information

Ashoka as a Global organization is registered as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization in the United States of America and is registered as a foundation with no profit-making purposes in Belgium.

Find out more about our legal information, our activities in Belgium, and our Annual and Partnership reports by clicking below.

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