Help Us Find the Next Ashoka Fellow in Switzerland!
Ashoka Switzerland is looking for social entrepreneurs revolutionising the health sector in Switzerland! Know someone making waves in this space? Nominate them to be the next Fellow in Switzerland, and access a global network of innovators, funding opportunities, and the support needed to scale.
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Help Us Find the Next Ashoka Fellow in Switzerland!
The world is defined by change and requires a new mindset.
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Emerging Insights
What Ashoka does
Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of Fellows, Young Changemakers, Changemaker Institutions, and beyond who see that the world now requires everyone to be a changemaker – a person that sees themselves as capable of creating large-scale change.
Together, we mobilize and accelerate a movement to build an "Everyone a Changemaker" world: where everyone has the right and ability to co-lead solutions that transform their societies for the better (directly addressing the rise of a new inequality in changemaking worldwide)
Ashoka Switzerland is proud to unveil the official 2023/24 brochure featuring 19 remarkable Fellows who are driving transformative initiatives in Switzerland across the following sectors:
Civic Participation
Education and Youth
Health
Human Rights
Inclusive Economies
Tech and Humanity
These 19 Fellows in our Swiss ecosystem present innovative solutions and show an unwavering dedication to creating positive change, inspiring individuals and communities to do the same. To learn more about their initiatives and new developments, check out the brochure.
Ashoka has elected 3,700+ Fellows across more than 90 countries over the last 40+ years. Together with 250+ change institutions and 300+ partners, we form a strong, diverse and vibrant ecosystem of change agents collaborating and co-leading to positively transform societies and cultures around the world.
How society helps children grow up needs fundamental innovation at least as urgently as in how it produces computers. That is why Ashoka is so important. It finds, helps launch, and then links and leverages the most powerful social innovations and innovators.
Carol Bellamy
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Bill Drayton emphasized to us [that] empathy is increasingly becoming our primary resource for dealing with the exponential rate of change the world is going through.
Arianna Huffington
Founder, The Huffington Post
We recognize a new era is about to start. In this new era, empathy and changemaking skills, which Ashoka exemplifies, would equip our young people to lead the country.
Kan Suzuki
Professor at Tokyo University and Keio University
No matter a person’s abilities, if he or she helps others – to that degree he or she will be powerful, happy, and long-lived. That’s why Ashoka’s leadership in building a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e., a giver, makes it so special and powerful.
Timothy P. Shriver
Chairman, the Special Olympics
Forbes knows that the story is change. No one sees that more clearly than Ashoka. It has an extraordinary ability both to envision the big, new patterns and to engineer their emergence.
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