= <span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Overview</span></span> =
<span style="font-size: medium"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15.432000160217285px"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">[[File:Ashoka icon.png]]Ashoka builds networks of pattern-changing social innovators and select high-impact entrepreneurs, who creatively solve some of the worlds biggest social challenges, to become Ashoka Fellows. They believe that there is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur. Ashoka is practical in that they are highly attentive to the nuts and bolts of making things work, and visionary in that they often reframe the problem, build roles for others to participate, and cast a long term view for change at least at the national level. Ashoka's Venture and Fellowship program identifies and elects leading social enrepreneurs to the global Ashoka Fellowship and provides support, community, collaboration opportunities, and</span></span> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">recognition.</span></span></span></span>[[File:Ashoka.jpg|border|Ashoka.jpg]]</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Ashoka's four areas of focus and investment help people to understand builds and adapt to cultivates a world community of accelerating change where leaders who see that the world now reqiures everyone is called on to be a leader:'''</span></span>changemaker. Together, we collaborate to transform institutions and cultures worldwide so they support chagemaking for the good of society.
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">[https://www.ashoka.org/en/'''Ashoka's four areas of focus/social-entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship]<br/>Ashoka selects and investments help people to understand and adapt to the world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to everyone-be a-changemaker world.leader:'''</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/everysocial-child-practicing-empathy Empathyentrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship]'''<br/>To thrive in today’s rapidly changing world<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, everyone must be a changemaker51)">Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, identifying and changemaking starts supporting the world’s leading social entrepreneurs since 1980. Social entrepreneurs are individuals with empathyinnovative solutions to society’s most pressing social, cultural, and environmental challenges.They are ambitious and persistent — tackling major issues and offering new ideas for systems-level change.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/leadevery-child-practicing-young Lead Youngempathy Empathy]'''<br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">Ashoka is leading bringing together a movement to transform how young people grow up so they have global network of the power world’s leading social entrepreneurs and other partners to leadwork towards a society where learning empathy is a essential, parents insist that their children develop empathy, to contribute — to be and institutions cultivate empathy in learning and in chargepractice.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/teamlead-teams Team of Teamsyoung Lead Young]'''<br/>Living and working in our changemaker world requires breaking through silos<span style="color: rgb(51, tearing down walls51, 51)">Everyone can be a change-maker and organizing in fluidit is never too early too start. That is the premise that global non-profit </span>[https://www.ashoka.org/ Ashoka]<span style="color: rgb(51, open51, teams of teams.51)"> says is behind its new </span>[http://leadyoung.ashoka.org/ LeadYoung]<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"> initiative, which seeks to inspire people with stories about successful social entrepreneurs and how they started their work at a young age.</span></span></span>
= <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;small">Purpose'''[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/team-teams Team of Teams]'''<br/>Living and working in our changemaker world requires breaking through silos, tearing down walls, and organizing in fluid, open, teams of teams. </span></span> =
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Ashoka has identified the new framework needed for living and working together in this radically different world drawn from insights working with our</span></span></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">[https://www.ashoka.org/en/our-network?display_type%5B%5D=Fellow&keywords= <span style="color:#000000;smaller"> global network of Ashoka Fellows</span>]Purpose</span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">, the world's leading social entrepreneurs. The four elements of the framework are empathy, teamwork, new leadership, and changemaking.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Empathy''' is crucial Ashoka has identified the new framework needed for living and working together in a this radically different world where rules can’t keep pace drawn from insights working with our</span></span></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:small">[https://www.ashoka.org/en/our-network?display_type%5B%5D=Fellow&keywords= <span style="color:#000000;"> global network of Ashoka Fellows</span>]</span></span><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:small">, the speed and complexity world's leading social entrepreneurs. The four elements of change. Empathy-based ethics is fast becoming the cornerstone for our everyday dealingsframework are empathy, teamwork, new leadership, and changemaking.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''TeamworkEmpathy''' relies on everyone having is crucial in a world where rules can’t keep pace with the capacity to work in fluid, open teams speed and complexity of teams to see and seize change. Empathy-based ethics is fast becoming the ever-changing opportunities in this new strategic landscapecornerstone for our everyday dealings.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''New LeadershipTeamwork''' requires that every player relies on everyone having the team be an initiator. Each person must capacity to work in fluid, open teams of teams to see and seize the big picture and advance solutions that contribute to positive social outcomesever-changing opportunities in this new strategic landscape.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''ChangemakingNew Leadership''' is requires that every player on the capacity team be an initiator. Each person must see the big picture and advance solutions that contribute to freely and effectively innovate for the good of allpositive social outcomes.</span></span></span>
<span style= "color:#000000"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:smaller;small">Distinct Differences From Other Offerings'''Changemaking''' is the capacity to freely and effectively innovate for the good of all.</span></span></span> =
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:small;smaller">Ashoka Fellows work in over 90 countries around the globe in every area of human need. They are taking a different route by addressing social entrepreneurship, and seeking leaders who are willing to make a difference in the community. They are providing youth and up with the tools they need to become a social entrepreneur and make a difference and also build networks that help people see and understand this new framework, and take an action as changemakers.</span>Distinct Differences From Other Offerings</span>=
= <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-sizecolor:smaller;#000000">Impact Achieved For Students And CampusAshoka Fellows work in over 90 countries around the globe in every area of human need. They are taking a different route by addressing social entrepreneurship, and seeking leaders who are willing to make a difference in the community. They are providing youth and up with the tools they need to become a social entrepreneur and make a difference and also build networks that help people see and understand this new framework, and take an action as changemakers.</span></span> =
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Ashoka U takes an institutional change approach offers a life-time Fellowship program for individual Social Entrepreneurs. The Fellowship represents a great opportunity to spread the work and impact the education of millions of studentsthese individuals as well as support them to scale up and grow. They collaborate with colleges and universities to break down barriers Additionally, Ashoka offers group entrepreneurs (Fellows working in the same sectors) the platform to institutional change and foster a campus-wide culture of develop broader social innovationinnovations together.</span> </span></span>
= <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">Steps Required To Bring Resources to Impact Achieved For Students And Campus</span></span> =
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small">Ashoka selects the world's leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows; the leading elementary, middle and high schools as Changemaker Schools when their students prioritize empathy, teamwork, leadership, problem-solving and changemaking; and colleges and universities as Ashoka Changemaker Campuses when they make social innovation an embedded core val</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size: small">ue.</span> <span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">Every two years, a selection of Fellows answer a battery of questions to help Ashoka assess the efficacy of the Fellowship program and how it could be improved. These studies consistently show that about 80 percent of Ashoka Fellows have changed a national-level system in at least one way within 10 years of their election to the Ashoka Fellowship. In 2013, 87 percent of Ashoka Fellows surveyed indicated that Ashoka had helped to increase the impact of their work, with 49 percent saying that Ashoka had made a “critical difference” in their efforts.</span></span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ashoka U takes an institutional change approach to impact the education of millions of students. They collaborate with colleges and universities to break down barriers to institutional change and foster a campus-wide culture of social innovation.</span></span></span> = <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:smaller">Steps Required To Bring Resources to Campus</span></span> = <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:small">They currently have Nine programs: Ashoka Support Network , Ashoka U , AshokaChangemakers , Ashoka Changemaker Schools , Ashoka Executive in Residence , Ashoka Globalizer , Ashoka Venture and Fellowship, Ashoka Youth Venture , Ashoka Social Financial services</span></span>
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<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">The selection process enables Ashoka U to make a comprehensive evaluation of the institution and helps us develop a portfolio of institutional strengths and unique contributions to the field.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Phase 1 – 360° Campus Scan:''' The 360° Campus Scan is an inventory tool designed as an empowering experience and structured process to assess the changemaking ecosystem at your institution, catalyze deeper commitment among your allies, generate new insights and ideas about what could work at your institution, and get feedback, recommendations, and comparative institutional case studies from Ashoka U. ''- US $7,500*''</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Phase 2 – Site Visit:''' Ashoka U conducts a selection site visit for interviews with senior leaders and other key allies on campus, and for final evaluation and coaching for the selection panel. - ''US $7,500* + Travel and Accomodations''</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> '''Phase 3 – Selection Panel:''' Two Change Leaders or campus representatives make their case in front of experts in the field, who decide whether the institution qualifies as a Changemaker Campus.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Onboarding:''' Within a week of the Changemaker Campus selection panel, we will notify you of your designation as a Changemaker Campus and begin to prepare for a launch and designation ceremony at the Ashoka U Exchange. - ''US $10,000*''</span></span>
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= Contact Information =
<div class="fulladdress"><div class="address">'''<span style="font-size:larger">Ashoka Global Headquarters</span>'''</div><div class="address"><br/></div><div class="address">1700 North Moore Street</div><div class="address">Suite 2000 (20th Floor)</div><div class="address">Arlington, VA 22209</div><div class="address">USA</div><div class="address">Tel: 703-527-8300</div><div class="address">Fax: 703-527-8383</div><div class="address">Email: info@ashoka.org</div><div class="address"><br/></div><div class="address">'''<span style="font-size:larger">Ashoka Office in India</span>'''<br/></div><div class="address"><br/></div><div class="address">54, 1st Cross, Domlur Layout</div><div class="address">Bangalore 560071</div><div class="address">India</div><div class="address">Tel: 080-4274-5777</div><div class="address">Email: india@ashoka.org</div><div class="address"><br/></div></div>
''<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><tt><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Created by:</span></span></tt></span></span>[[Preethi Koduru|PREETHI KODURU]], [[Venkatesh|VENKATESH]],, [[Prathap Puppala|PRATHAP PUPPALA]] and [[Harsha Teja|HARSHA TEJA]].''
= Contact Information =<div class="fulladdress"><div class="address">'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Ashoka Global Headquarters</span>'''</div><div class="address">'''<span style="font-size:larger;"></span>'''<br/></div><div class="address">1700 North Moore Street</div><div class="address">Suite 2000 (20th Floor)</div><div class="address">Arlington, VA 22209</div><div class="address">USA</div><div class="address">Tel: 703-527-8300</div><div class="address">Fax: 703-527-8383</div><div class="address">Email: info@ashoka.org</div><div class="address"><br/></div><div class="address">'''<span style="font-size:larger;">Ashoka Office in India</span>'''<br/></div><div class="address">'''<span style="font-size [[Category:larger;"></span>'''<br/></div><div class="address">54, 1st Cross, Domlur Layout</div><div class="address">Bangalore 560071</div><div class="address">India</div><div class="address">Tel: 080-4274-5777</div><div class="address">Email: india@ashoka.org</div><div class="address"><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></div><div class="address"<br/></div><div class="address"><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></div></div> Organizations]]