Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

Mission

Ashoka envisions a world where Everyone is a Changemaker: a world that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and drive change. Ashoka strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers.

Programs

Youth Venture International Full Economic Citizenship Citizen base Initiative Changemakers Social Financial Services Changemakers Fellowship Venture

Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Youth Venture Argentina

Youth Venture Canada

Youth Venture Europe

Youth Venture Thailand

Personnel Overview

Lilli v. Bodman - Director Youth Venture Germany
Lilli von Bodman joins Ashoka from the Quandt Foundation where she was responsible for scholarship programs that brought students from Eastern Europe and Latin America to Germany. She also set up a forum at the WHU, a renowned management school in Germany, to raise awareness about social and political issues among students and to attract stakeholders from business and politics to engage in campus

Personnel Statistics

Bill Drayton,
Founder and CEO
Founded in 1980
Employees: 174
Volunteers: 264