Community Newsletter October: 2021 Check out our new offers and apply

Last call to apply for the Wellbeing Lab

Join this bi-weekly online learning and unlearning journey for social change leaders to re-connect with themselves and with what they need to be well and resilient as leaders.

Deadline to apply: Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Module Timeline: Bi-weekly sessions between October 2021 & April 2022

Time: 2- 4/4.30 p.m. CET

Learn more and apply here

Apply now for the Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Online Course

We are launching  the ‘Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration’ online course starting in January 2022. Join us to strengthen your strategy and leadership skills for facilitating multi-stakeholder collaborations and learn about the enabling conditions for large-scale collaboration and the tools to support its success.

"We have achieved a lot as a social enterprise for system change through partnerships and collaboration, but sometimes things don’t go so well, and we can all always improve.  This course really opened my eyes to where we had gone wrong in a specific instance, and taught me how we can be more successful, more of the time, as we collaborate for system change."

Sue Riddleston – Ashoka Fellow

Deadline to apply: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Module Timeline: Weekly live sessions on Thursday, 3-5pm CET between January 27th - March 17th, 2022

Learn more and apply here

Join the World’s Leading Changemakers at the Ashoka Changemaker Summit 2021!

The Ashoka Changemaker Summit has launched with a weekly series of online sessions! This year's summit takes us on a 3-month journey to discover A New Togetherness. Through this virtual summit, Ashoka hopes to connect its community with unlikely allies, share fresh insights, and collaborate to achieve positive change. The summit is taking place through a series of virtual sessions until December 2nd, every Thursday at 3 pm CET.

Register now!

Working with Governments- Peer Exchange Online Session

Build on experience of your peers in the field of health and education when it comes to advocacy work in Europe (with Dorica Dan, Carmen Pellicer and Krystian Fikert presenting their cases) and leverage the expertise of an Ashokan maneuvering inside the EU institutions.

Deadline to apply: October 31th

Online session date & time: November 24th, 2–4 pm CET

Learn more and apply here!

Elders Council webinar: "You've got a friend"

Carole King’s song “You’ve got a friend” beautifully epitomizes the care and support that we as social entrepreneurs need as we look at the best way to celebrate our eldership both in our succession and our leadership. The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs is pleased to invite you to a webinar on these themes on the 6th December 2021 at 5 pm CET. Our speakers are Dr. François Bonnici, Director at the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Adriana Craciun, Senior Advisor – Organizational Development and Capacity Building, Oak Foundation; and Tim Hanstad, Chief Executive Officer, Chandler Foundation. Places are limited, so do please register early to attend.

Date & Time:Monday, 6th December 2021 at 5 pm CET

Click here to register for the webinar

Changemaker Europe initiative for the future of Europe

As Europe embarks on a journey to rethink its future, an opportunity opens for Ashoka to contribute to the economic and social recovery after COVID-19 with its system-changing innovations. Ashoka’s manifesto for a Changemaker Europe envisions a future where everyone uses their power to drive social change and shape policy.

Click here to learn more Ashoka’s Changemaker Europe Initiative and click here to save the date for our in-person session at the Ashoka Changemaker Summit on the 2nd of December in Turin where we will discuss the role social innovation can play in rethinking policymaking.

Want to know your Changemaking skills?

Are you an individual interested in advancing on your changemaker journey? The Changemaker Index gives you a better understanding of your change-making skills and an informed starting point from which you can grow. Are you a team leader or a CEO? With the data from the Changemaker Index, you'll be able to know the Changemaker Density of your team and see where you're making progress. Ashoka's Changemaker Index is a self-assessment tool that will determine where you are on your change-making journey while helping you understand and improve crucial change-making skills.

Check out here to learn more about the Changemaker Index

Join the Ashoka Visionary Program in the Mediterranean!

The Ashoka Visionary Program is a part-time executive program for decision-makers in the private and the public sector dealing with social innovations as well as social entrepreneurs. The program enables participants to gain the skills needed to master both entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial challenges and to generate social impact.

The deadline to apply is Saturday, October 30th, 2021.

Learn more and apply for the VP MED program here!

Each of us and together: Building resilient communities for a better future

When Covid-19 hit, we saw Ashoka Fellows and many other changemakers around the world quickly stepping up as first responders, active supporters, and visionary entrepreneurs designing new models to react and to build forward better futures worth living in. The pandemic highlighted the need for bringing systemic changes in critical fields and for healing society as a whole. Changemakers United is a collective effort to support social entrepreneurs in shaping the new reality in the field of health, education and economic inclusion in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis.

Read the global report from here and learn more about the initiative

Blueprint for Inclusive Workplaces of the Future

How to create compelling destinations where everyone can contribute. Does your industry have a clear and shared understanding of an Inclusive Workplace? What makes a workplace inclusive, safe and compelling? Our program partner Steelcase partnered with The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs and created a Blueprint for Inclusive Workplaces of the Future as a resource for organizations around the world.

Click here to dive deeper into findings and insights around inclusive workplaces of the future

The People's Report: A Global Survey

The first People’s Report survey in collaboration with our ecosystem partner Catalyst 2030, was shared with thousands of people to have a better idea of the lives, the experiences, and the concerns of people in a wide range of communities all around the world about how the SDGs are influencing their day-to-day lives. The data from this worldwide circulated survey will be used as a catalyst for discussion, representation, and decision-making at the UN in 2021.

Click here to read the report