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

Ashoka, which patiently, persistently pioneered social entrepreneurship for decades, remains at its cutting edge... By enabling leading social entrepreneurs from every continent to think and entrepreneur together, it has unleashed an unprecedented new force for good

Sir Fazle Abed

Founder and former Chair, BRAC

The Ashoka mission stands for engagement in every sense of that term – of having people feel as if they’re responsible for their neighbors, they’re responsible for their descendants, they’re responsible for themselves, for making the most of themselves that they can.

James Fallows

Writer, The Atlantic

Being involved with Ashoka has set a high bar for the rest of philanthropy [...] because I can see that these are the people who are driving true change. [...] Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

Anne Wojcicki

Co-Founder and CEO, 23andMe

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.

Forbes

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

The results of Ashoka’s shared leadership with the focus on solving social challenges is clear: 74 percent of Fellows have managed to change the legislation or have influenced public policies.

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