cont. - Ashoka

What We Do
Identify, Help Launch, and Support Social
Entrepreneurs
Ashoka invests in people. We search the world for the
leading social entrepreneurs. at launch stage, we provide
these Fellows with a living stipend for an average of three
years which allows them to focus full-time on building their
institutions and spreading their ideas.
Foster Collaborative Entrepreneurship
ashoka accelerates social impact by engaging communities
of entrepreneurs in ripening fields to think and create
together to tip the world.
Build an Everyone a Changemaker World
a truly changed and sustainable world will require everyone
to have the essential skills of changemaking: empathy,
teamwork and leadership for change. More problem
solvers and barriers torn down between sectors will result
in safer, happier, more equal and more successful societies.
Ashoka Fellow Ishita Chaudhry launched Youth Parliament in India, the country’s
largest direct advocacy organization for young people. She has built a national
network of young leaders who organize themselves and educate government
officials on the views and opinions of India’s 300 million young people.
Photo: Kyle Taylor
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