Ashoka Fellow Diya Abdo founded Every Campus A Refuge after a simple but far-reaching insight: universities have housing, resources, and often a high density of changemakers. Why not put them to work? What started on one campus in North Carolina has grown into a national movement in the US. Join Diya and María Mérola, from Ashoka's Hello World initiative, for a 30-minute conversation live. Bring your questions! https://lnkd.in/ec6nAPAv
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When 1 in 6 people are excluded from how we design workplaces, cities, care systems, and communities, the design needs to change. With the support of The Seneca Trust, Ashoka has been actively mapping and expanding the community of social innovators who work on and with disability: identifying changemakers already driving systems change in this space, increasing the number of disability-focused candidates in our pipeline, and building the capacity to understand disability innovation as a lens that belongs to aspects of our everyday lives. Thank you to Ashoka Fellows and partners for supporting us in the presentation of the report on social innovation in the field of disability: https://lnkd.in/etFJ-Zx9 Robin Tim Weis, from Zero Project Deborah Gundle, from The Seneca Trust Lizzie Kiama, from This Ability Thorkil Sonne, from Square Foundation and Specialisterne Danmark Ricardo Tomazoli, from Ashoka's Canopy team
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Narratives shape the boundaries of what feels politically and socially possible. In the field of planet and climate, this is particularly important to help us make sense of the complexities of our world and the role we play in it. Last month, Ashoka People & Planet and Ashoka Participation Hub brought together narrative strategists, social innovators, policymakers and researchers around two questions: 🌱 How is climate action currently framed? 🌱 How do those frames shape what we can imagine, support, and build? This short film captures Ashoka Fellows reflecting on what changes when these worlds meet, featuring Ignace Schops, Paul Radu, Femke Groothuis, Jennifer Uchendu-Kalu, MPH, and Simon Stumpf.
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While many organizations are adopting AI and pursuing digital transformation to prepare for an uncertain future, they often overlook a powerful asset: the motivation, purpose, and agency of their own people. New insights from Ashoka Changemaker Companies and GlobeScan show that 82% of employees globally believe they can help their organizations drive change that benefits people and the planet. There is a compelling business case for investing in this human potential, including stronger well‑being, retention, and innovation. Join us for a webinar exploring how organizations can build changemaker workforces by strengthening the skills that enable change. We’ll examine why qualities such as agency, adaptability, creativity, empathy, and critical thinking are emerging as core workforce capabilities. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eMZCUXBj
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Living with a rare disease means facing isolation, difficult access to a proper diagnosis, and a lot of uncertainty. Ashoka Fellow from Romania, dorica dan, is changing that. Through the Romanian Alliance for Rare Diseases, Dorica helped build one of Europe’s most powerful networks advocating for people living with rare conditions. What began as support for patients quickly expanded into an interconnected community: patient groups, medical professionals, researchers, and policymakers across Europe. By creating platforms where these actors could collaborate, Dorica helped move rare diseases from the margins of healthcare systems into national and European policy agendas. Ashoka’s Globalizer program has worked with Dorica and hundreds of Ashoka Fellows to design these strategies, helping social entrepreneurs build collaborative approaches to systems change and grow the networks needed to carry their impact further. More on Dorica's case study: https://lnkd.in/eHUXzHNB
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The Bicester Collection's Unlock Her Future Prize is calling on female founders across the East and South East Asia region who are building solutions to address social, cultural, and environmental challenges. Winners receive up to $100,000 in funding, university support, mentorship from global experts, and access to a network that can help scale what they've built. If you're an early-stage female founder, or you know one, apply before 17th May 2026. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/eRynQ_sb Chantal Khoueiry | Daria Kuznetsova | Simone Koo Ishikawa
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A healthy democracy and civil society begins with making it easier for people from all walks of life to contribute to the common good. This is the "everyone a changemaker" vision that Ashoka works towards and that Michael Zakaras explores in this podcast with Mila Atmos from Future Hindsight. https://lnkd.in/d5_fRZzn
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Imagine being a teen and helping prep a real legal case. That's exactly what students are doing at the first high school legal clinics in the US — started by lawyer and social entrepreneur Armin Salek. Young people from diverse communities in Texas learn legal literacy by actually doing: researching issues, working through cases, and collaborating with a practicing lawyer on things that matter to their communities — housing, eviction, immigration, and more. As Armin says in this short clip: "I trust that the next generation is well equipped to serve all of us." #AshokaAsks #AshokaFellows Video produced by Cohen Borschow Media
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Nearly 17% of the population lives with disability, but only 2% of philanthropic givings target this cause. Ashoka has been working to reduce this gap across our network, increasing the number of nominations and elected Fellows who work on and with disability. Through this effort, we’ve gained valuable insights and invite you to join the conversation on what still needs to be done to achieve a world without barriers. Join us on May 6, with Ashoka Fellows Thorkil Sonne, from Specialisterne Danmark and Lizzie Kiama, from This Ability, along with our partners Michael Fembek from the Zero Project and Deborah Gundle from Seneca Trust Fund. Register here: https://lnkd.in/esGPpwjA 📅 Wednesday May 6, 15:00 CET.
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At Ashoka, we're proud to be a part of Time for Change: Dream, Act, Change Our World. Supported by Audemars Piguet under the guidance of the Audemars Piguet Foundations - and in collaboration with Ashoka and Teach For All - the initiative empowers young changemakers from underserved communities, helping them shape their futures and create lasting change. Through our collective efforts, we support students and educators in building the skills needed to lead on the issues that matter most. Today we’re spotlighting one of the key changemaking abilities: Teamwork. Because lasting change requires diverse perspectives, collaboration, and shared leadership. Students and educators participating in Time for Change activities in Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States are demonstrating how teamwork and changemaking action can take shape across a wide range of communities and contexts. Watch how students at a high school in Washington, DC, developed changemaker mindsets and improved their community. #TimeForChange #Ashoka #AudemarsPiguet #TeachForAll #First Book #AudermarsPiguet #Changemakers #GlobalImpact #YouthLeadership #YoungChangemakers #SocialImpact