Our Priorities

Ashoka focuses on four strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt to a world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a leader

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Social Entrepreneurship

Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to an everyone-a-changemaker world.

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Every Child Practicing Empathy

To thrive in today’s rapidly changing world, everyone must be a changemaker, and changemaking starts with empathy.

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Youth Years

 Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they have the power to lead, to contribute — to be in charge.

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Organizing for Changemaking

Living and working in our changemaker world requires breaking through silos, tearing down walls, and organizing in fluid, open, teams of teams.

What We Do

Ashoka supports an "Everyone a Changemaker" world through its programs in more than 90 countries, building and amplifying this global movement in three stages:

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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. After a rigorous application process, we invite them into the Ashoka Fellowship - providing early stage financial support and a lifetime membership into an expansive network of peers and partners - enabling them to achieve their vision and have even greater impact. We then draw on the insights and patterns of these 3,500+ Ashoka Fellows to understand what the future needs and how to create new solutions for building a better world.

Venture & Fellowship
Ashoka Support Network
Ashoka Globalizer
Ashoka Executive in Residence
Ashoka Wellbeing

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Accelerate the "Everyone a Changemaker" world

We mobilize a network of organizations to join us in shifting mindsets and reshaping how we learn, work, and live together to catalyze changemaking for the good of society. We partner with schools, universities, corporations, citizen sector organizations, media, and other influencers to co-lead this movement with us.

AshokaU
Ashoka Changemaker Schools
Ashoka Social Financial Services
Organizing for Changemaking

 

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Equip Everyone to be a Changemaker

We inspire and enable changemaking in the public-at-large, and work to give all citizens the confidence and tools to solve problems for the good of all. Specifically, we focus on preparing the next generation to navigate this rapidly-changing world by ensuring all young people have the critical skills they need.

Global Programs
Ashoka Young Changemakers
Ashoka Changemakers
Ashoka Youth Venture

Programs in India
Accelerating Healthcare Access

 

Ashoka invites everyone to contribute in the most powerful way by joining with us as co-leaders in the "everyone a changemakers" movement. We are social entrepreneurs -- and change leaders -- across sectors who are bringing this powerful framework to our communities, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods.

Your contribution enables us to elect new social entrepreneurs into our fellowship, provide support services to existing Fellows, and launch collaborations between Fellows and companies to promote continued innovation in areas of pressing global need.