<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. 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:small;">'''Ashoka's four areas of focus and investment investments help people to understand and adapt to a the 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:small;">[https://www.ashoka.org/en/focus/social-entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship]<br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Ashoka selects world-class has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, identifying and supporting the world’s leading social entrepreneurs who since 1980. Social entrepreneurs are leading the way individuals with innovative solutions to everyone-asociety’s most pressing social, cultural, and environmental challenges. They are ambitious and persistent — tackling major issues and offering new ideas for systems-changemaker worldlevel change.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''[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>