Ashoka Network
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| Formation | 1980 |
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| Founded at | USA |
| Type | NGO |
| Purpose | social entrepreneurship support |
Region served | Global |
Membership (2020) | 3500 Ashoka fellows from 92 countries |
| Website | https://www.ashoka.org/en |
Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who see that the world now requires everyone to be a changemaker. Together, we collaborate to transform institutions and cultures worldwide so they support changemaking for the good of society.[1]
Overview
Since its foundation in 1981, Ashoka Network has spread to 95 countries, employs more than 300 people and engages with +3500 Ashoka Fellows.
Ashoka empowers citizens to 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."[2]
Purpose of Ashoka Network
Three main focuses of Ashoka are:
- Social Entrepreneurship: selecting world-class social entrepreneurs
- Empathy and Young Changemaking: transforming how young people grow, so they can have the power to lead
- Organising for Changemaking: organising in fluid, open, teams of teams[2]
History of Ashoka Network
Scope of Ashoka Network
Membership
Initiatives in numbers
Ashoka Network by countries
Other countries
Ashoka Network is present in 95 countries on all continents.
Links to key examples
Numbers of people involved, and indirect beneficiaries
Impacts of Ashoka Network
Ecological impacts
Social impacts
Economic impacts
Impacts in other dimensions
Research on Ashoka Network
Bibliography
External links
References
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