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.
By joining the Ashoka Support Network (ASN), you are invited to embark on a transformative journey. This journey is both collective and individual. Collectively, the ASN offers you the opportunity to be part of a community dedicated to fostering social change. Individually, it gives you the chance to reflect on how you want to make a difference in the world and – ultimately – empowers you to take action.
How? Ashoka has a wide range of resources, but the most valuable of these are our Fellows, the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. In connecting and interacting with them, you will be inspired and empowered to shape a better world.
Founded in 2004, the ASN is composed of 350+ members worldwide in more than 40 countries.
Read our ASN brochure to learn more about how members bring value to and benefit from the Ashoka network.
Impact Report on How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker™ World
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.
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
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
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
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.
Ashoka Support Network Members strengthens Fellows' Impact
Who we are
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.
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.
Angelika cuenta con experiencia de trabajo en diferentes organizaciones sociales y en proyectos de cooperación internacional en Argentina, Ecuador, Brasil y Alemania. Angelika estudió Economía y Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Passau en Alemania y Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad Católica de Córdoba en Argentina. Desde el 2011 está trabajando para Ashoka y actualmente está dirigiendo Venture y Fellowship - la búsqueda y el apoyo de Emprendedores Sociales en Ashoka México y Centroamérica. La preocupación por las desigualdades que enfrentan las personas en países en desarrollo, motivaba a Angelika, que originalmente es de Alemania, a involucrarse en temas de cambio social.
Never before has the impact of humanity on Earth been so decisive for planetary well-being and humanity's future as now.
I believe we must now place our resources in education and specifically in growing children's skills in empathy, positive psychology, self-awareness, collaboration, leadership and creativity. Only then will children be able to recognize problems and find solutions to the increasing challenges that they will face during their lifetimes. We really need to rethink the systems we have created, becoming the new system and collaborating to act together.
I found an organization 18 years ago, focusing on vulnerable young people in prison, 'Young in Prison', where I have seen in reality how all children CAN transform. With my initiative, I was rewarded with an Ashoka fellowship and I have since fallen in love with Ashoka's mission: 'everyone a changemaker'.
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