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Ashoka Worldwide
The world is defined by change and requires a new mindset. 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 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".
Founded
1980
Elected
4,000+
Ashoka Fellows
Fellows from
95+
countries
Ashoka's 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 & Young Changemaking
Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they thrive in today’s rapidly changing world where everyone must be a changemaker. Changemaking starts with empathy.
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.