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Our Key Priorities Whilst Ashoka has been supporting its Fellows over the last
four decades, we have also seen a profound transformation in the dynamics of the
world around them. Change began to accelerate. What used to take centuries now
takes decades, and what used to take decades now takes years. Trying to fix
broken systems involves new challenges to embrace these complex and
ever-changing dynamics. For all the great work of social entrepreneurs, we
cannot rely on them alone to create the scale of solutions now needed. Indeed,
to achieve the necessary scale, we need everyone to step up. This is how Ashoka
defines its strategy as we enter this new world – Everyone a Changemaker™.
Ashoka UK and Ireland has worked for over 15 years to support outstanding social
innovators with transformative solutions to social issues and now focuses on the
following areas: Searching, selecting, and supporting UK and Ireland’s leading
social entrepreneurs For those elected as Fellows, Ashoka provides tailored
lifetime support to scale their solutions’ impact. This ranges from initial
monetary support, in the form of a stipend for up to three years, to strategic
advice from a global network of peers, experts, and key decision-makers. Learn
more about The Ashoka Fellowship programme and how you can get involved.
Enabling our society to embrace social innovation and changemaking In the last
40 years, we have not only built the world’s largest community of leading social
entrepreneurs but also continued to build and empower the field of social
entrepreneurship. At the heart of this effort has always been the commitment to
make systems change the central goal of social entrepreneurship. Learn more
about our work in promoting systems change across sectors and how you can get
involved. Activating all young people to be changemakers Our mission is to
trigger a shift in mindsets across the learning ecosystem in the UK and Ireland
so that the experience of education empowers every young person to be a
changemaker. Our approach to achieving this is to find, connect and organise
social innovators, government, foundations, thought leaders and young people
themselves that are already pioneering the field of changemaking. And then, to
organise these communities to lead initiatives which eventually tip ecosystems
toward a future in which every young person is becoming a changemaker. Here are
some examples of young changemakers.
