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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 society. About Ashoka Worldwide About Ashoka UK & Ireland Meet the HSBC Future Skills Innovation Challenge Winners! Twelve social entrepreneurs who are shaping a post-pandemic economy where everyone can access opportunities and where people have the skills to thrive in a rapidly-changing world Read more Emerging Insights 2019 Champions of powerful new ideas with the potential for national, regional or global impact Read more Ashoka in the UK & Ireland 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 UK 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 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 If one were to examine the forensics of significant impact in healthcare, education or the environment, they would often find the fingerprints of Ashoka Stuart Davidson Sonen Capital Partner, Labrador Ventures 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 Recommend a Changemaker Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading changemakers 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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