The Ashoka Support Network is a global community of committed leaders who share, support, and advocate for Ashoka’s values and vision, while unleashing their own potential as changemakers.
What is the Ashoka Support Network?
Ashoka offers a wealth of resources, but the most valuable are Ashoka Fellows— the world’s leading social entrepreneurs.
The Ashoka Support Network (ASN), founded in 2004, is a global community of +300 business leaders, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs' members who provide their expertise, financial support, networks and contacts to accompany these social innovators. By connecting and interacting with them, ASN members gain inspiration and empowerment to shape a better world.
Discover how you can bring value to and benefit from the Ashoka Support Network. Read our ASNBrochure to learn more.
Ashoka Africa Builders is a transformative program designed to empower social entrepreneurs across the continent. By fostering collaboration, building capacity, and engaging communities, this initiative creates a dynamic network of changemakers dedicated to addressing Africa's most pressing social challenges.
Key Highlights:
Community Support - Connects social entrepreneurs to a network of peers and mentors.
Skill Development - Offers resources and training to enhance the impact of initiatives.
Regional Impact - Focused on driving positive change across the African continent.
Join the Ashoka Support Network and transform your impact
Embark on a transformative journey that empowers you to make a lasting impact. As a member of the Ashoka Support Network , you’ll be inspired for your own changemaking journey. Here’s how ASN can elevate your efforts:
Access a Global Changemaker Network:
Connect with outstanding social entrepreneurs and innovators who are addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. Leverage Ashoka’s extensive network to collaborate with leading changemakers and drive industry transformation.
Discover & Align Your Purpose:
Reflect on your aspirations and learn how to contribute meaningfully to creating a more equitable world. ASN provides opportunities to align your values with actionable solutions for significant impact.
Collaborative Leadership Network:
Engage with purpose-driven leaders, CEOs, Senior Executives and business innovators in a supportive environment designed for sharing, learning, and taking action. Build relationships that foster mutual growth and impactful collaborations.
Co-Creation Opportunities & Exclusive Access:
Partner with Ashoka Fellows on impactful projects and initiatives. Gain entry to private networking events, immersive global learning expeditions, and insider opportunities to enhance your influence and visibility.
Maximized Social Impact & Global Visibility:
Ensure your philanthropic investments yield high social returns through Ashoka’s expertise and connections. Share your achievements on Ashoka’s platforms, reaching a global audience of over 100 million.
Become part of something bigger than yourself. Join the Ashoka Support Network today and start your journey toward creating a better world with the world’s leading changemakers!
Ethical fiber
Empathy, openness to learning from others, and morality of their efforts.
Alignment with Ashoka's vision
Understanding why building an Everyone a Changemaker world is so important.
Ability to contribute expertise and/or network
An extended network that might be relevant for Ashoka and its community (Fellows, staff, Young Changemakers) and/or a track record as an entrepreneur or senior executive in the private or public sector.
Financial capacity
Ability to support Ashoka through a minimum donation made annually for three years.
Meet the Network!
The ASN is a global community that connects our members with the world’s leading social innovators.
Since the early 1980s, Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, building a network of 4,000 of the most impactful changemakers across nearly every sector. ASN Members are key partners for Ashoka Fellows—collaborating as co-creators, strategic thought partners, and supporters. In return, Ashoka Fellows offer ASN Members unique insights, inspiration, and high-impact opportunities for collaboration. Through these partnerships, we bring ASN Members’ visions to life while amplifying the global impact of our Fellows.
Ashoka is a wake-up call. I have learned that there are, actually, many opportunities to step into radical systemic change, to up my game, help shape better global policies and participate in shifting the dynamics of social inequalities, both in the social and in the business sectors.
Fabienne Serfaty
Strategy Consultant and Social Impact Investor
When you become an ASN member, not only does the money you invest have a huge impact, but you become a part of the Ashoka network and an important piece of the puzzle. Just as much as you give, you get back.
Maite Arango
Former VP of Grupo VIPS and President of Ashoka Spain
It is a personal nourishment to have the opportunity of working with such inspiring people as Ashoka social entrepreneurs. They are a source of inspiration for my own life. They help me to improve my personal and professional journey. Ashoka is offering me this new journey.
Alejandro Gorodisch
President, Farmacity
I want to support social entrepreneurs and motivate our generation not only to take responsibility in theory, but also to act and work towards a better future.
“To be a member of ASN is both interesting and stimulating. It is very enriching to meet dedicated Ashoka Fellows and expand my personal network with other ASNs. It is also meaningful to be able to contribute to one of the world’s leading NGOs
I very much appreciated the Globalizer Summit in Madrid in May 2024.The wide variety of initiatives...
Magnus Uggla
Retired business leader. Non-Executive director
Participating in the Globalizer program has been an amazingly enriching learning experience. Working with an inspiring Ashoka fellow, we applied the Ashoka process to a social problem, tackling the root cause, developing a system change plan, and exploring scenarios for scaling. I learned about the longevity space and experienced the challenges...
Galya Molinas
Caykha, Former Global Senior Executive, Founder
Would you like to learn more about our members?
We invite you to explore interviews with some of our ASN members here.
How are Ashoka Fellows engaging individuals as changemakers? What strategies do they use to build partnerships that inspire both changemakers and solutions? How are they changing systems to create a world in which everyone can contribute, and therefore, thrive?
Every three years, Ashoka conducts a study to understand how its Fellows are driving lasting social change. This study shows how Ashoka Fellows shift mindsets, change policies, and activate others as changemakers. It also presents the 11 strategies Ashoka Fellows use to build a world of changemakers.
Impact Report on How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker™ World
Perrine de le Court is the leader of the Ashoka Support Network and the Director of Ashoka Belgium, the largest network for social entrepreneurs. She has been living and working in several countries across South America and Africa. She brings with her 5 years of working in the private sector with Regus, and 15 years in International organizations such as UNICEF and IMBEWU. At the young age of 26, she co-founded an NGO for street children in Lagos and pursued her social and entrepreneurial involvement in Abidjan supporting children on the need to protect the environment. She currently serves on the board of Convivial, Belgium's pioneering organization for refugees. Now based in Zurich, Perrine plays a role in supporting and developing Swiss partnerships for social entrepreneurs.
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