Ashoka Changemakers Company Information

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Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Over a 30 year span, we have elected and funded over 2,800 leading social entrepreneurs in more than 70 countries. Rather than building one school or clinic in one community, Ashoka Fellows work at the systemic level, transforming the way children learn or creating new healthcare delivery systems. Ashoka then distills action-principles that cut across the work of these social entrepreneurs and creates frameworks for collaborative entrepreneurship to author global change. These sector-tipping principles gained through our innovative collaborative architecture, along with the role modeling and recruitment of other innovators by Ashoka Fellows, represent Ashoka’s core strategy for realizing its vision of Everyone a Changemaker™.

Ashoka Changemakers is an online platform that assembles the entire ecosystem of change -- (innovators, investors, enthusiasts and end-users) to find solutions to specific problems framed by investors looking to open source a problem to a community that is likely to have the answers. By leveraging the knowledge in Ashoka’s network of innovators, Changemakers helps its clients identify and frame the right questions to solve any social challenge, and invites innovators to respond to the challenge through open, friendly “collaborative competitions”. In doing so, it forms surprising connections and unexpected partnerships across the globe that turn the old “top down” ways of problem-solving upside down. Anyone with an idea can get it refined and spread through Changemakers. To learn more about our impact, please visit our website.

Ashoka is an equal opportunity employer and invites applications from candidates regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or religion.