Ashoka
Our Priorities
Ashoka focuses on three strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt to a world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a leader
Social Entrepreneurship
Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to an everyone-a-changemaker world.
Empathy and Young Changemaking
Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they have the power to lead, to contribute — to be in charge.
Organizing for Changemaking
Living and working in our changemaker world requires breaking through silos, tearing down walls, and organizing in fluid, open, teams of teams.
What We Do
Ashoka supports an "Everyone a Changemaker" world through its programs in more than 90 countries, building and amplifying this global movement in three stages:
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. After a rigorous application process, 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
Organizing for Changemaking
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.
Global Programs
Ashoka Young Changemakers
Ashoka Changemakers
Ashoka Youth Venture
Programs in India
Accelerating Healthcare Access
Ashoka in South Africa
Ashoka’s country and regional offices around the world co-create and co-lead Ashoka’s programming. This enables our global changemaker community to capture and act upon emerging insights, knowledge, and talents of innovators from a wide range of cultural and regional contexts.
Our Team
Ashoka is a team of people working together from 35 country offices around the world to advance a world in which Everyone is a Changemaker. Ashoka staff members are team players who are entrepreneurial and are driven to make powerful ideas real.
Meet Our Team
See a list of team members from around the world helping to advance an "everyone a changemaker" world
Partnerships with Purpose
Ashoka partners with companies and organizations that are as committed as we are in creating a just world. We work closely with our partners to create initiatives with both local and global impact.
The Lego Foundation
LEGO Foundation and Ashoka believe that playful learning can change the world. Together, Ashoka and Lego have begun to identify play-based learning innovations around the world and to re-imagine learning for the 21st century.
Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Ashoka have partnered together in promoting innovative solutions to challenging health problems since 2010. By exploring the intersection of social entrepreneurship, employee talent development, and healthcare networks the teams have co-designed "win-win" solutions to global healthcare challenges. Solutions have come through increasing individuals’ access to healthcare and community health issues, especially underserved populations. Over 5 years, the team has supported 75 Making More Health fellows in 47 countries, launched 3 global open-source competitions finding 800+ health innovations worldwide, and engage 10% of BI's global workforce of 45,000.
Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Ashoka have partnered together in promoting innovative solutions to challenging health problems since 2010. By exploring the intersection of social entrepreneurship, employee talent development, and healthcare networks the teams have co-designed "win-win" solutions to global healthcare challenges. Solutions have come through increasing individuals’ access to healthcare and community health issues, especially underserved populations. Over 5 years, the team has supported 75 Making More Health fellows in 47 countries, launched 3 global open-source competitions finding 800+ health innovations worldwide, and engage 10% of BI's global workforce of 45,000.
American Express
American Express’s vision is to bring to life the American Express value of good corporate citizenship by supporting diverse communities in ways that enhance the company's reputation with employees, customers, merchants, business partners and other stakeholders.
J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan works with community partners to create pathways to opportunity by supporting workforce development, financial capability, small business development and community development in the regions where they do business. They use their strength, global reach, expertise, relationships, and access to capital to make a positive impact in cities around the world. The foundation is supporting Ashoka Switzerland's Impact programme.
J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan works with community partners to create pathways to opportunity by supporting workforce development, financial capability, small business development and community development in the regions where they do business. They use their strength, global reach, expertise, relationships, and access to capital to make a positive impact in cities around the world. The foundation is supporting Ashoka Switzerland's Impact programme.
Accenture
Accenture, a consultancy firm specialised in management, technology and outsourcing, supports since 2012 initiatives improving access to employment and skills development through its "Skills To Succeed 'approach.
DIRECTV
DirecTV apoya a Ashoka en la construcción de un mundo de líderes de cambio, para promover, especialmente, una educación transformadora
Forbes
Forbes and Ashoka have a long-standing media partnership in North, Central, and Latin America. Ashoka publishes business-related stories from an Ashoka lens on its own Forbes’ channel, promoting Ashoka Fellows and other social entrepreneurs in our network.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Strategy consulting firm among the leading professional services in the world, PwC helps organizations and individuals create the value they’re looking for by delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Strategy consulting firm among the leading professional services in the world, PwC helps organizations and individuals create the value they’re looking for by delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.
Ashoka invites everyone to contribute in the most powerful way by joining with us as co-leaders in the "everyone a changemakers" movement. We are social entrepreneurs -- and change leaders -- across sectors who are bringing this powerful framework to our communities, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods.
Your contribution enables us to elect new social entrepreneurs into our fellowship, provide support services to existing Fellows, and launch collaborations between Fellows and companies to promote continued innovation in areas of pressing global need.