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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 all. About Ashoka Worldwide About Ashoka in the USA Embracing Complexity Towards a Shared Understanding of Funding Systems Change Read more The Childhood Survival Revolution How James P. Grant Convinced The World To Save Its Children Read more Share My Lesson: I Am a Changemaker A 2019 Top Partner Story for the American Federation of Teachers Read more Bill Drayton and Social Entrepreneurship: How a Social Movement is Changing the World . . .and Launching Another Movement: EVERYONE A CHANGEMAKER Read more Answering Society’s Call: A New Leadership Imperative How do transparency, empathy, and meaning work in practice? Read more Leading Social Entrepreneurs - 2019 Ideas and leading social entrepreneurs recently elected by Ashoka Read more Leading Social Entrepreneurs 2019's Top 5 Most Innovative And Impactful Social Enterprises. Read more Ashoka in the United States Ashoka’s country and regional offices around the world co-create and co-lead Ashoka’s programming. This enables our global changemaker community to capture and act upon emerging insights, knowledge, and talents of innovators from a wide range of cultural and regional contexts. See a full list of country offices Learn More About Ashoka United States Ashoka's Priorities and Theory of Change Ashoka focuses on four 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. Learn more 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. Learn more 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. Learn more How society helps children grow up needs fundamental innovation at least as urgently as in how it produces computers. That is why Ashoka is so important. It finds, helps launch, and then links and leverages the most powerful social innovations and innovators. Carol Bellamy Former Executive Director, UNICEF Bill Drayton emphasized to us [that] empathy is increasingly becoming our primary resource for dealing with the exponential rate of change the world is going through. Arianna Huffington Founder, The Huffington Post We recognize a new era is about to start. In this new era, empathy and changemaking skills, which Ashoka exemplifies, would equip our young people to lead the country. Kan Suzuki Japan State Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology No matter a person’s abilities, if he or she helps others – to that degree he or she will be powerful, happy, and long-lived. That’s why Ashoka’s leadership in building a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e., a giver, makes it so special and powerful. Timothy P. Shriver Chairman, the Special Olympics Forbes knows that the story is change. No one sees that more clearly than Ashoka. It has an extraordinary ability both to envision the big, new patterns and to engineer their emergence. Forbes Find out more about partnering with Ashoka for social change Explore our Community of Changemakers Our changemaker community consists of 3,500+ Fellows, 250+ change institutions, and 300+ partners across more than 90 countries. Together, we form a strong, diverse and vibrant ecosystem of change agents collaborating and co-leading to positively transform societies and cultures around the world. Learn more about our changemaker community Ashoka Fellows Our Partners Donate to Support Changemakers Everywhere Donating to Ashoka enables us to elect new social entrepreneurs into our fellowship, provide support services to existing Fellows, and launch collaborations between Fellows, corporations, and citizen sector organizations to promote continued innovation in areas of pressing global need. Donate now Recommend a Social Entrepreneur to be an Ashoka Fellow Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading social entrepreneurs on its own. Good nominators ensure that Ashoka receives a constant flow of promising candidates as well as an invaluable perspective on the current innovation in the sector. 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