Unleashing the Future at Ashoka Africa’s Young Changemakers Festival in Lagos

Lagos, Nigeria – May 30, 2024 – Ashoka, the world’s leading network of social entrepreneurs, proudly announces a pivotal moment for the “Everyone A Changemaker” movement in Nigeria. The third cohort of Ashoka Young Changemakers (AYC) and the grand celebration of the transformative learning-teaching...
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CTEACH Celebrates its First Cohort Graduation, Launches Changemaking Documentary and Storybook, Inducts 100 New Teachers.

Lagos, Nigeria – 27th September 2024 – CTEACH - the Changemaker Teacher Activation program proudly celebrates a significant milestone with the graduation of its first cohort of 52 teachers from local government areas across Lagos State. This event marks the completion of a year-long journey to...
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Mobilizing African youth to safeguard the environment - Amara's Changemaker Journey

Changemaker Journey Amara is one of countless activists who have been compelled by challenging circumstances to rise to the task of effecting positive change in disadvantaged communities, supporting people in need to lead the lives they deserve. What sets her apart, however, is her unwavering...
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Care-Centered Communities for Women Changemakers and Beyond

Women social entrepreneurs (WSEs) are spread thin across the multiple roles they juggle—they must simultaneously be mother, spouse, daughter, community leader, and employer. These various roles come with the weighty responsibility to care for others, thus WSEs are depleted by the pressure and...
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Ashoka's New Pan African Leadership Team

We are thrilled to announce the promotion of Angelou Ezeilo, Okey Uzoechina, and Yashveer Singh to be the new acting Co-Diamond Leaders of Ashoka Africa! With a special focus on Africa, Ashoka believe this new leadership will help harness the huge entrepreneurial ability in the continent. It should...
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A Recent Event Hosted by Ashoka Sheds Light on Empathy’s Role in Society

“We were really looking at this issue as a shortcut, not as experts in empathy, but because we see this as being essential to change-making in the world,” said Danielle Goldstone, a senior adviser at Ashoka and the founding director of Ashoka’s global Empathy Initiative. Founded in 2011, the Empathy...
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6 Lessons from Young Leaders: Insights for Shaping the Future

In the quest to strengthen young leaders, scoping research has been conducted among 200 individuals across Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Czechia. A partnership of Ashoka, Save the Children and Humanitarian Leadership Academy came together to develop a program titled "Youth Leaders for Emerging...
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Bill Drayton Sits Down with Inside Philanthropy: How Ashoka is Making “Everyone a Changemaker”

Check out Bill Drayton's conversation with Liz Longley about Ashoka's history and evolution, today's priorities, and what's next for Ashoka in a world of change.

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Decolonizing Changemaking: Becoming Accomplices in Indigenous Wisdom and Liberation

In February, our DEI team sat with Nick Tilsen, the CEO of NDN collective and an Ashoka Fellow since 2014. We asked him to share some thoughts on the sector of philanthropy, the value of decolonization and indigenization in this sector and connected to major issues like climate change, and where he...
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Ashoka Africa Impact Highlights Report - 2023

Discover the transformative power of social entrepreneurship in Africa with the Ashoka Africa Impact Highlights Report 2023! Africa, renowned for its abundant natural resources and dynamic youthful population, faces profound socio-economic and environmental challenges. From poverty, and inadequate...
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Ambition Accelerator 2024 is in India

Following the success of Ambition Accelerator 2022 in the US, Ashoka in partnership with the Taco Bell Foundation has expanded it to ??India this year. Ambition Accelerator 2024 will award diverse young innovators in India up to INR 10,00,000 of grant funding from a total prize pool of over 1.5...
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Leading the refill revolution, in which every gram counts

Driven by a passion for social change, José Manuel Moller founded Algramo in 2013. The organization's name, which translates to "By the Gram" in English, reflects its core mission: to lead the refill revolution, in which every gram counts.

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Changemaking starts with changing the inside

A friendly smile framed by long, curly hair, with pinkish tips matching an intense purple wall in her background. That was the image we saw while talking to Victoria, a teacher to 7th and 8th graders at a school in Wyoming, New York, and an ambassador to the Time for Change program. Victoria works...
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Why the decline of the church matters to everyone?

“In a world where polarization and fear often dominate conversations and relationships, Smietana says, people need what the church has. Sometimes that means skills such as asking forgiveness, admitting that you need help and understanding that you can dislike someone yet still see them as a person...
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Interfaith America is building bridges of cooperation

“We need to learn how to build a social order that welcomes people from a range of identities and builds bridges of cooperation between and among us. I think that is done through a positive narrative that animates people to build concrete institutions to an inspiring ideal.” “A diverse democracy...
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Roots of Empathy inducted into education innovation ‘Hall of Fame’

On October 26th, the global organization HundrED that discovers, researches and shares inspiring innovations for kindergarten to grade 12 education, inducted Roots of Empathy, founded by Ashoka Fellow Mary Gordon, into their Hall of Fame.
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Eight participants of the Dela Accelerator receive experimentation funding to advance their systems change journey

In the current edition, eight of the eleven accelerator participants have kick-started the experimentation phase to focus on an element of their revised systems change strategy and test some of the key milestones to achieve it.

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Designing health solutions and reducing the environmental impact of maritime operations

Jakob Otilius Flovikholm, 21 years old young changemaker from Norway, has been awarded the General Motors grant for youth between 13-21 working with climate equity initiatives.

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The Story of Bhungroo: How a gender centric approach is tackling water shortage in rural India

Biplab Ketan Paul, Co-Founder of Naireeta Services, meticulously explains the power of social capital and tactful innovations
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Unplastifying the planet

We’re focused on finding and disseminating the most updated information about plastic pollution and related issues. We want to dig deeper into how excessive plastic use harms our health and the environment and how regulations can impact the amount of waste and pollution we generate.

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