What We Do

Support Social Entrepreneurs

First, we support individual social entrepreneurs--Ashoka Fellows--professionally and sometimes financially throughout their life cycle.

Learn more about who is a Social Entrepreneur

See our Ashoka Fellow Search and Selection Process

Accelerate Fellow Accelerator

Second, we help leverage and accelerate their impact, scale their ideas, and capture and disseminate their best practices through our networks, support, and door-opening.

Localizer

Third, we import innovations, guiding a strategy used around the world to expand Fellow ideas and build an internationally competitive environment for the work of social entrepreneurs.

Learn more about our Localizer Selection Process

Meet our Fellows in the Localizer Portfolio

Finally, we bridge business and society, helping build the infrastructure and financial systems needed to support the growth of the citizen sector and channel the dynamism of business into social change.

See Ashoka Support Network Member Profiles

Ashoka Innovators for the public from Ashoka Ireland on Vimeo.

All of our programs in these areas contribute to Ashoka's vision and mission; all understand the historical transformation of the citizen sector taking place and are building upon that understanding.

Ashoka's levels are mutually reinforcing; together they are bringing our vision of “Everyone a Changemaker” closer to reality.