Empowering A New Generation Of Leaders

The Ashoka Visionary Program offers you the opportunity to take your know-how, changemaking skills and network to another level. Our part-time, offline executive program enabling interaction over 9 months with Ashoka Fellows and leaders in the private, the public and the non-profit sector in an exchange of experiences and expertise. Starting in Vienna on 20th of October, 2022, the program consists of 7 modules  covering all topics relevant to social innovation and leadership, such as scaling, business modelling, co-creation, managing organizations, marketing and more.

Deadline for the early bird offer: April 30th, 2022

Click here to apply and here to learn more. 

Will you join us in supporting our new Hello Europe Refugee Fund?

During the past weeks, global Ashoka network have mobilized around the emergency in Ukraine with empathy, urgency, and efficiency to the immediate needs rising from the conflict. Now, wow, we have initiated the Hello Europe Refugee Fund to support leading social innovators in Central Europe, activate their systems-changing work and shape a better narrative around refugees and people on the move.

Click here to learn more, support and donate to the Hello Europe Refugee Fund

Steelcase Global Learning Community Gathering

Our program partner Steelcase keeps supporting and leveraging the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. We co-created an online gathering with their Global Learning Community to deep dive into the Supporting Sytems Changers Report, sharing our key learnings, and tools to spark a conversation around how to innovate the way we support systems changers.

Click here to download The Supporting Systems Changers report and contact Thomas Blettery to organize local gatherings to support and leverage the social entrepreneurship ecosystem

You are Invited! Key Learnings For Collective Impact On Climate And Biodiversity

On Earth Day, April 22, we invite you to our online event where we will share key learnings for collective action from our Insights Report 2022. The Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWL) Collective is a growing assembly of 25+ international system-changing organizations, grounded in a community of practice. We are collaborating closely to ensure that high level climate and biodiversity plans become more actionable.

Date&Time: April 22nd, 12-1 PM CET

Click to here register and learn more about our collective strategy to unlock nature's potential to reverse the effects of climate change and stop biodiversity loss.

An Urgent Invitation to Shift Funding Practices: NGO Call-to-Action Open Letter

True systems change occurs when multiple players across sectors, disciplines, and social groups – including funders and movement leaders – work together towards common goals over extended timeframes. We invite you to consider adopting the transformative grantmaking practices to enable and empower the social sector and to foster multi-sectoral collaborations that work towards the types of systems changes that are urgently needed.

Click here to learn the principles and join our shared journey to create lasting solutions to many of the biggest problems facing people and the planet today.

We are thrilled to announce that Ashoka’s new Systems Change Masterclass is now public!

The Masterclass consists of 9 modules to craft your own systems change strategy based on proven frameworks for scaling social impact in any sector. You’ll find new video content, up-to-date insights on applied systems thinking, a complete workbook with editable worksheets for each module, diverse case studies as well as a fresh design. Systems Change Masterclass is available in English and Spanish. The French version is also coming soon!

Click here to enroll and here to contact us.

Catch up on the latest webinar from the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs!

The Founder of a social enterprise does many things – the visionary, the fundraiser and they bring the magic. What can we pass on from our experiences and what do you need the successor to bring? Most importantly, how do you collectively maintain the culture and mission? Inspired by the song “I Can See Clearly Now” (sung by Jimmy Cliff) let's reflect on all these aspects of succession planning with Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, Ruth Ibegbuna and Rupert Roniger.

Click here to watch the webinar and here to become a member and receive updates

Do you want to create your own school for changemakers in your country?

Ticket for Change, co-founded by Ashoka Fellow Matthieu Dardaillon, offers a 6-month replication journey that is made for you. If you want to tackle challenges like climate change or social exclusion in your country, board on this replication journey and launch your Ticket for Change! This program will offer you the complete toolbox and support you need with 8 years of experience and impact on more than 120 thousand people.

Application Deadline: May 22nd, 2022

Click here to discover the offer and apply

Systemic Funding for Systemic Change and How to Create Change from Within

Karin Haselböck, Head of Strategic Planning Ashoka Europe, in participated the 3rd edition of Philea’s “What if? Reimagining Philanthropy” event series. She invited participants to look at shifting funding practices as an important element of creating systemic change by referring to Ashoka’s report Embracing Complexity: Towards a shared understanding of funding systems change.

Click here to watch the session and here to download the report

Influence for Good: How Highly-Resourced Individuals Can Work Towards Systemic Change?

Highly Resourced Individuals have an important role to play in systemic change. They have a moral obligation to change the unfair systems they benefit from. In partnership with Catalyst 2030, Echoing Green, Generation Pledge, and McKinsey & Company, we are excited to share that the Influence for Good: How Highly-Resourced Individuals Can Work Towards Systemic Change report is out now!

Click here to read the full report and here to watch our  Skoll World Forum 2022 launch session

Our Impact 2020-2021

We are thrilled to share with you our Impact Report, covering our activities from September 2020 to August 2021. The third year of the Ashoka Europe Fellowship Program was a big adventure! We doubled our impact from the previous year while keeping the quality of programming as high as ever. We want to take a moment and thank you all for empowering and supporting us to build a co-learning and co-creation community to leverage changemaking in Europe and around the World.

Please click here to download the data infographic and click to here download our impact report.

The Unlonely Planet 2022: How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker World?

How are Ashoka Fellows engaging individuals as changemakers? What strategies do they use to build partnerships that inspire both changemakers and solutions? How are they changing systems to create a world in which everyone can contribute, and therefore, thrive? Ashoka presents its global study of systems-changing social entrepreneurs. From creating opportunities for individuals to contribute to redefining “weaknesses” as strengths, and engaging people everywhere, they exemplify 11 core strategies required to build a world of changemakers.

Click here to check out The Unlonely Planet: 2021 Global Fellows Study and click here to watch the global presentation.