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<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;">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. &nbsp;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>[[File:Ashoka.jpg]]</span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">'''Ashoka's four areas of focus and investment help people to understand and adapt to a world of accelerating change where everyone is called on to be a leader:'''</span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/social-entrepreneurship <b>Social Entrepreneurship</b>]<br/>Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to everyone-a-changemaker world.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">'''[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/every-child-practicing-empathy Empathy]'''<br/>To thrive in today’s rapidly changing world, everyone must be a changemaker, and changemaking starts with empathy.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">'''[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/lead-young Lead Young]'''<br/>Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they have the power to lead, to contribute — to be in charge.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">'''[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>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span>