Everyday Changemakers

Opportunities for Changemakers and Young People

Discover below some opportunities to get to know Ashoka better and get involved in our activities.

Attend our events

We host conversations about today's most pressing challenges and ways to overcome them. Attend an event to meet, join discussions with, and learn from the Ashoka's global community of changemakers.

Events in Switzerland Events around the world

Join the Ashoka Support Network

Are you looking for ways to make an impact? The Ashoka Support Network (ASN) is a global community of committed leaders who share and advocate for Ashoka’s values and vision. ASN members support Ashoka financially and strategically, while unleashing their own potential as changemakers.

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.

Learn more

Support Ashoka and its Fellows

Anyone can access their power to contribute to the good of all by helping propel creative solutions to the world’s most difficult challenges. Tap into your own changemaking power by using your unique talents and skills to help scale the impact of Ashoka Fellows, global staff, and others within the Ashoka network around the world.

You can explore the opportunities of working with us or browse our marketplace, in which regular offers are uploaded and where you can submit your volunteer proposal. [Volunteering: check out our Frequently Asked Questions for volunteering and, for travelers, our Volunteer Checklist.]

Our volunteer marketplace Our carreer opportunities

Resources for Changemakers and Young People

Discover below some learning resources, developed together with our leading social entrepreneurs, Ashoka Fellows. From courses, to readings and videos, we have prepared some special material for you.

Changemaking.net

Course

A concentrated course about how to best echo the roots of your social problem, featuring user-friendly videos and worksheets

Discover the Course

Doing Democracy

Reading

This study explores the strategies adopted by leading social entrepereneurs to go beyond traditional forms of democratic participation and stop democracy from eroding further.

Unfold The Strategies

Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship

Video

Navigate how Social Entrepreneurship can fix broken systems and achieve our collective goals.

Watch the video

From Small to Systemic

Reading

Social entrepreneurs, by driving change on a systematic level, have enormous social and financial impact.

Go to the Study

Changemaker Communities

Various resources

Get familiar with changemaking thanks to these resources for teachers, parents, youth and administrators.

Discover Them All

The Systems Change Podcast

Podcast

A 6-episode series on systems change, conversations with the world’s leading changemakers and pioneering actors.

Go to the Podcast

Storytelling Toolkits

Toolkit

Are you a storyteller or movement builder? Get ready to inspire others to be changemakers through stories.

Uncover Storytelling

Can Social Entrepreneurship really change the world?

Podcast

Lively conversation about social entreprenership and its challenges, business with purpose and conscious citizenship .

Listen now

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