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With 88% of Ashoka social entrepreneurs encouraging people to think differently and 89% of Fellows putting young people in charge, Ashoka's Changemaker community is modeling what it takes to build a world of Changemakers and ensure everyone is included. Learn more.
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.
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.
Ashoka envisions an Everyone a Changemaker™ world. Together with Ashoka Fellows, young changemakers, supporters, and partners, we are mobilising an intergenerational community in a unified movement to search, select, and support changemakers worldwide.Our work is focused on shaping a world in which everyone plays a part in sca ling their collective impact, fostering a culture of social ...
Bill Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980 based on the idea that the most powerful force for good in the world is a social entrepreneur: a person driven by an innovative idea that can help correct an entrenched global problem.
Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, identifying and supporting the world’s leading social entrepreneurs since 1980. Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social, cultural, and environmental challenges.
Ashoka & IKEA Social Entrepreneurship have co-created a global accelerator, Dela, to support leading social entrepreneurs in developing their systemic impact.
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.
Who are Ashoka Fellows. Ashoka Fellows are the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. They champion innovative new ideas that transform society’s systems, providing benefits for everyone and improving the lives of millions of people.
Ashok Kamath is transforming the quality of foundational numeracy education across 50,000 government schools in Karnataka, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh and has...
