Ashoka
Ashoka envisions a world in which everyone is a changemaker: a world where all citizens are powerful and contribute to change in positive ways.
Ashoka is the largest network of leading social entrepreneurs in the world with more than 3.800 Ashoka Fellows driving systemic change for social progress across sectors in over 90 countries.
Our Mission
Ashoka identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an “everyone a changemaker world.”
What we do
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. 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
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
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.